Heinrich von Morungen

Miniature of Heinrich von Morungen from the Codex Manesse.

Heinrich von Morungen (died 1222)[1] was a Minnesinger, whose 35 surviving Middle High German songs are dated on both literary and biographical grounds to around the period 1190–1200.[2] Alongside Walter von der Vogelweide and Reinmar he is regarded as one of the most important Minnesänger:[3] he was "the most colourful, passionate, tender and musical of the Minnesänger"[4] and his work "marks a new and brilliantly effective stage in the development of the German lyric."[5]

  1. ^ Tervooren 1989, cols. 804–805.
  2. ^ Kesting 1969.
  3. ^ Kellner 2021, p. 666.
  4. ^ Wapnewski 1975, p. 65:"der farbigste, leidenschaftlichste, zǎrteste und musikalischste unter den Minnesängern".
  5. ^ Gibbs & Johnson 2002, p. 254.