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Ulrich von Türheim became known above all through his sequels to Gottfried's "Tristan" (1235) and Wolfram's "Willehalm" under the title "Rennewart" (around 1250). He obtained his French sources for "Rennewart" from the Augsburg citizen Otto den Bogner (documented 1237-1246); the lament about the death of King Henry VII, Konrad von Winterstetten and the Lords of Neifen suggests the poetry was commissioned by the Hohenstaufen court and written in the time after 1243. The plot continues where Wolfram's "Willehalm" stops, with the victory of the Christians over the heathens in the second Battle of Aliscans. Rennewart is baptised, made a knight and marries the French king's daughter Alise, with whom he fathers a child. The transformation into a legend of the saints becomes the determining concept towards the end of the plot. Numerous references to Wolfram's "Willehalm" are encountered in "Rennewart" but not to Ulrichs von der Türlin's "Arabel", its backstory. With the two of them together, the "Rennewart" has been preserved as a cycle in eight out of ten manuscripts, some of the approximately 30 fragmentary manuscripts also originate from cycles. Only Cgm 42 (14th century) and Cgm 231 (end of the 15th century) evidence the "Rennewart" as being independent of the cycle. Datum: 2016
Author
Peter Czoik