!!!Stricker, der

Stricker, der (Middle High German "stricken" = combine, 
plait), Middle High German itinerant poet from the 1%%sup st/%  half 
of the 13%%sup th/%  century, from Rheinfranken. His extensive oeuvre 
includes small pieces of poetry as well as elaborate romances. The 
Stricker is regarded as having initiated the genre Maere, a specific 
type of German tale. His 16 Maer tales were probably written before 
1250 and are mostly of a farce-like character ("Der begrabene 
Ehemann" - "The Buried Husband", "Der Gevatterin 
Rat" - "The Godmother´s Advice", "Das heisse 
Eisen" - "The Hot Iron"). The Stricker also wrote 
Bîspel (exemplary) tales, fables, a minne speech and the 
farcical tale "Pfaffe Amis" ("Parson Amis"). In 
1220 he translated the "La Chanson de Roland"; "Daniel 
von dem bluehenden Tal" (Daniel of the Flowering Valley, around 
1220) is an Arthurian romance, which deliberately diverges from the 
view of the world presented in the classic Arthurian romance.

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Editions: M. Resler (ed.), Daniel von dem bluehenden Tal, 1983; W. 
Moelleken (ed.), Die Kleindichtung des Strickers, 1973; K. Hofmann 
(ed.), Frauenehre, 1976; K. Bartsch (ed.), Karl der Grosse, 1857 
(reprint 1965); H. Henne (ed.), Der Pfaffe Amis (Middle High German - 
New High German), 1991; H. Janota (ed.), D. S. 
Verserzaehlungen, 2 vols., %%sup 4/%, 1979/1997.

!Literature
S. L. Wailes, Studien zur Kleindichtung des Stricker, 
1981; H. Ragotzky, Gattungserneuerung und Laienunterweisung in Texten 
des Strickers, 1981; S. Boehm, Der S., 1995; Deutsche Literatur 
des Mittelalters (lex.).


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