Storms, Shipwrecks, and Life-Changing Experiences in Late Medieval German Literature: From Oswald von Wolkenstein to Emperor Maximilian. (September 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Classen, Albrecht
• Is Part Of: Oxford German studies. Volume 43:Number 3(2014)
• Page Start: 212
• Page End: 228
• Publication Date: 2014-09
• Subjects: German literature -- History and criticism -- Periodicals; German philology -- Periodicals; 830.9
• DOI: 10.1179/0078719114Z.00000000058
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0078-7191

Abstract

<abstract> <title> <x content-type="archive" xml:space="preserve">Abstract</x> </title> <p>While the experience of shipwreck can almost be called archetypal, and while poets throughout time have placed their protagonists in such dangerous and life-threatening situations, we do not know much about how late-medieval German writers reflected on it. This article examines the motif of shipwreck and personal disaster in a number of heretofore little considered works, especially the poems by Oswald von Wolkenstein, those by Michel Beheim, Heinrich von Neustadt's 'Apollonius', and Emperor Maximilian's 'Theuerdank'.</p> </abstract>