Wartburgkrieg

LC control no.	n 2015060628
Descriptive conventions	rda
Uniform title heading	Wartburgkrieg *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Wartburg, Contest of Contest of Wartburg Sängerkrieg auf der Wartburg Sängerkrieg
Found in	Studien zum mittelhochdeutschen 'Wartburgkrieg', 2015 ECIP data view (The "Wartburgkrieg" texts represent an exceptional phenomenon in Medieval German literature from both a formal and substantive perspective. The studies in this volume analyze the individual poems while considering the overarching question of how to properly categorize them in the history of German literature. The studies are supplemented by a complete edition of the extant "Wartburgkrieg" texts") LC manual auth. cd. (hdg.: Wartburg, Contest of; xref (struck through): Wartburgkrieg; xref: Sängerkrieg auf der Wartburg; usage in published books: Wartburgkrieg; Sängerkrieg) Deutsches Literatur-Lexikon, 2008 Band 28, p. 315 (Wartburgkrieg; auch: Der Sängerkrieg auf der Wartburg; ... unter dieser Bezeichnung wird e. Konglomerat v. mhd. Sangspruchdg. d. 13-15 Jh. im "Thüringer-Fürsten-Ton" ... u. "Schwarzen Ton" ... zusammengefasst) English Wikipedia website, viewed Oct. 13, 2015 (The Sängerkrieg (minstrel contest), also known as the Wartburgkrieg (Wartburg contest), was a contest among minstrels (Minnesänger) at the Wartburg castle in Thuringia in 1207. Whether the contest was purely legend or had some basis in an actual event has been debated since the Middle Ages. Local Thuringian historians, such as Dietrich von Apolda (1220 or 1230-1302) and Johannes Rothe (c. 1360-1434), in the 14th and 15th centuries respectively, suggested the poems referred to an actual historical event. In the 19th century, Johann Rinne argued that the events never occurred)