Ulrich von Türheim was a German

Germany

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 writer from the Augsburg

Augsburg

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 area writing during the first half of the 13th century. Three of his works have survived: a conclusion to the version of the Tristan

Tristan

Tristan is one of the main characters of the Tristan and Iseult story, a Cornish hero and one of the Knights of the Round Table featuring in the Matter of Britain...

 legend left unfinished

Unfinished work

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 by Gottfried von Strassburg

Gottfried von Strassburg

Gottfried von Strassburg is the author of the Middle High German courtly romance Tristan and Isolt, an adaptation of the 12th-century Tristan and Iseult legend. Gottfried's work is regarded, alongside Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival and the Nibelungenlied, as one of the great narrative...

; Rennewart, a continuation of Willehalm, left unfinished by Wolfram von Eschenbach

Wolfram von Eschenbach

Wolfram von Eschenbach was a German knight and poet, regarded as one of the greatest epic poets of his time. As a Minnesinger, he also wrote lyric poetry.-Life:...

; and fragments of a version of Cligès

Cligès

Cligès is a poem by the medieval French poet Chrétien de Troyes, dating from around 1176. Cligès is the second of five Arthurian Romances; Erec and Enide, Cligès, Yvain, Lancelot and Perceval. It tells the story of the knight Cligès and his love for his uncle's wife, Fenice...

based on that of Chrétien de Troyes

Chrétien de Troyes

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. It is not known whether this last work was a separate work or also a continuation, in this case of a now lost Cligès by Konrad Fleck

Konrad Fleck

Konrad Fleck was a thirteenth century German poet, who wrote in the Alemannic German dialect. Not much is known about his life: he may have been from Alsace or the Basel district.His works include a version of Floris and Blancheflour.-External links:*...

. The relative chronology of these works is disputed, though Rennewart is generally regarded as the last.

Editions

• Ulrich von Türheim, Tristan, edited by Thomas Kerth (Altdeutsche Textbibliothek 89), Tübingen 1979.
• Ulrich von Türheim, Rennewart, edited by Alfred Hübner (Deutsche Texte des Mittelalters 3), Berlin 1938, ²1964.
• A. Bachmann, "Bruchstücke eines mittelhochdeutschen Cligès", Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum 32 (1888) 123ff.
• A. Vizkelety, "Neue Fragmente des mittelhochdeutschen Cligès", Zeitschrift für deutsche Philologie 88 (1969) 409ff.

Further reading

• Die deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters : Verfasserlexikon, Second Edition edited by Kurt Ruh, Berlin 1977-, volume 10.