![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Parzival is based only in part upon the fragmentary Perceval (ca. It is written in a lapidary language pregnant with meaning and in a versatile style, the whole revealing stern independence, creative power, and sly humor. With their taunting mood and mastery of language they exhibit Wolfram's superiority to the courtly minnesingers.įrom 1197 to 1210 Wolfram worked on Parzival, revising, filing, deepening, and completing it in conventional four-foot couplets, with only three beats when the rhyme is feminine. He held an unproductive fief near his home-town and thus was a vassal of the Count of Wertheim.Įarly in his career Wolfram composed nine short poems, mostly "dawn songs"-a genre based upon the alba of Provençal troubadours, in which two lovers must end their nocturnal tryst. Wolfram probably wrote a part of his 25,000-line Parzival in Wildenberg Castle in the Odenwald. In 1203 he visited the Wartburg court of Landgrave Hermann I of Thuringia. Roving, he practiced knighthood in Bavaria, Swabia, and Styria, as well as at home. Wolfram von Eschenbach was born into a family of ministerial or lackland knights, probably in Wolframs Eschenbach (so named since 1917) in central Franconia near Ansbach. His masterpiece, Parzival, deals with the problem of man's attitude and relationship to God. 1230), a German writer of chivalric romances, was one of the greatest poets of the Middle Ages. ![]()
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