Tannhäuser

Biographie einer Legende
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-3-525-20867-0
Verlag: Vandenhoeck + Ruprecht

Buch, Deutsch, 247 Seiten, mit 11 Abb., Format (B × H): 164 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 532 g

For more than 800 years the story of Tannhäuser, the rebellious German Minnesänger and courtier at the court of Frederick II of Austria, has moved people and influenced poetry written in his style. His name came to be synonymous with that of an eccentric artist who takes up fights with the mores of the day to the edge of self-destruction. Tannhäuser’s attacks were directed at the very foundation of Christian order, held in that day to be unshakeable: Lovemaking was subject to the laws of convention and moral order. His revolt against society’s strict norms of ideal love, however, was only one of the things we associate with Tannhäuser; his deviations from the strict rules of minnesong was of his very own construction.

Zielgruppe

GermanistInnen, an Literatur und Sagengestalten interessierte LeserInnen.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tebben, Karin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Einzelne Autoren: Monographien & Biographien
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Deutsche Literatur

Leseproben

Tannhauser: For more than eight hundred years the unruly Minnesinger has been stirring our emotions and poets. His name became a trademark for eccentric artists, who are willing to fight exisiting norms if necessary up to self-destruction. Tannhauser attacks the fundament of the Christian social order, which seemed to be unalterable: Love was exercised under the laws of moral standards. His revolt against a socially normed love ideal is just one of the two features which is related to the Tannhauser figure. The second is the change in form and content drifting away from the rules of Minnesinging and turning it into an unconventional artificial creation.>

Über Autor(innen)

Tebben, Karin
Dr. Karin Tebben ist Professorin für Neuere deutsche Literaturwissenschaft an der Universität Heidelberg.

PD Dr. Karin Tebben habilitierte sich mit einer Schrift über »Realismus und Geschlechterbeziehungen«. 2007 hat sie an der Universität Heidelberg die Leitung eines interdisziplinären Lehr- und Forschungsprojektes zum Thema »Literatur und Medizin / Psychologie« übernommen.