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"I sing this without hesitation..."
Love and Travel, sung by Oskar von Wolkenstein - A presentation by Prof. DR. Peter Glasner

Music: duo mülleRReuter

Oswald von Wolkenstein (*1376/78, †1445) "is considered today to be the most important German-speaking lyric poet and song author between Walther von der Vogelweide and Goethe" (Ulrich Müller). In contrast to other medieval lyricists, Oswald's profile confronts us not only through literature. His famous one-eyed portrait is depicted in several medieval representations, such as the Innsbruck manuscript (or Song manuscript B, around 1432) or the chronicle about the Council of Constance (around 1464/65) by Ulrich von Richental, which presents Oswald (without a beard) in the background of a cavalry scene. He commissioned his songs as magnificent manuscripts.

In the travel songs of the knight, pilgrim, and council participant, autobiographical motifs repeatedly emerge, of course within the topicality of the respective literary form, so that Oswald's verses have lost none of their impact to this day. Thus, the audience has always sympathized with a poetic knight who does not shy away from discussing disreputable events.
Poetry can claim its own entertainment value, especially when it understands sound symbolism, even giving animals, songbirds as well as farm animals, their own voices, as Oswald has done in his Mailied, which at first glance presents a nature idyll.
The song-composing member of the rural aristocracy of South Tyrol also provides insights into his own matters of the heart. Here, his lyrical self sings so unverporgen freely that erotic and everyday themes are intoned just as much as melancholic thoughts about aging or significant reflections on the meaning of life.

In the lecture, the aesthetic connections of literary motifs as well as the relationships between medieval texts and their musical settings will be presented. Privatdozent Dr. Peter Glasner has studied German philology, history, and educational science in Cologne and London; he teaches and researches in the German Medieval Studies department at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Bonn.

The exciting lecture is musically framed by the duo mülleRReuter.
Afterwards, a cheerful gathering in the garden by the fire...

Admission is free – donations are welcome
Reservations can be made at 02604/943277, 0170-2751868 or gaby.fischer@obernhofer-vollmondnacht.de