Gottfried von Strassburg

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Gottfried von Strassburg


Born
Straßburg, Germany
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Gottfried von Strassburg (died c. 1210) is the author of the Middle High German courtly romance Tristan, an adaptation of the 12th-century Tristan and Iseult legend. Gottfried's work is regarded, alongside the Nibelungenlied and Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival, as one of the great narrative masterpieces of the German Middle Ages. He is probably also the composer of a small number of surviving lyrics. His work became a source of inspiration for Richard Wagner's opera Tristan und Isolde (1865). ...more

Average rating: 3.74 · 4,274 ratings · 214 reviews · 133 distinct worksSimilar authors
Tristan: with the Tristran ...

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3.84 avg rating — 1,795 ratings — published 1210 — 29 editions
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Tristan and Isolde

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Tristan Band 1

3.69 avg rating — 272 ratings — published 1210 — 20 editions
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Tristan, Band 2

3.56 avg rating — 242 ratings — published 1210 — 18 editions
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Tristan. Auswahl: Gottfried...

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Tristan, Band 3

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Tristan and Isolde: with Ul...

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Três Paixões

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“We sow the seed of deadly nightshade and wish it to bear lilies and roses!”
Gottfried Von Strassburg, Tristan and Isolde (The German Library)

“Praise and esteem bring about skill where skill deserves comendation. When wisdom is adorned with praise it blossoms in profusion.”
Gottfried Von Strassburg, Tristan and Isolde (The German Library)

“There are so many today who are given to judging the good bad and the bad good. They act not to right but to cross purpose.”
Gottfried Von Strassburg, Tristan and Isolde (The German Library)

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