Hans Sachs

Biography

Hans Sachs was born Nuremberg. His/her father was tailor. Ila attended the Latin School of Nuremberg. Is 14 years old, it became apprentice shoe-maker. After its training, at the 17 years age, he travelled within the framework of his trade-guild, during five years.

It is thought that it decided to become a Meistersinger with Innsbruck in 1513. The same year, it has undertakes a training to become a meistersinger in Munich. Lienhard Nunnenbeck (Tisserand of Nuremberg) was its Master. In 1516 Sachs is established in Nuremberg for the remainder of its life.

September 1st, 1519, he married Kunigunde Creutzer (1512 - 1560). It Maria second once the September 1561 with a young widow, Barbara Harscher. Of its first marriage, it had five girls and two wire all deaths before their father; his second wife had six children. From 1525, it approached more and more Martin Luther whose it embraced the cause and supported it in some work.

Historical importance

Hans Sachs is regarded as most gifted and most famous of the meistersingers, only, in fact, which profited from a durable fame. It is that which one knows best work. The strict rules and the poetry of the meistersingers produced a kind which was quickly obsolete.

The “ plays of carnival ” of Sachs are regarded as its best productions and are always played today. In these works and some others, it shows of innovation and innovations beyond the strict rules of the " mastersang".

Principal works

Him approximately 6000 works are owed, but some of them are not always clearly of him. Let us note that it continued to work as shoe-maker all his life (the Masters singers did not write with an aim of living about it).

Mastersang itself (approximately 4200)
other poetries/songs
Plays of carnival
Currencies rimées for the “ Ständebuch ” ( delivers emblems ) of Jost Amman
Tragédies
Comédies
Dialogs in prose
Fables

Works devoted to Sachs

Richard Wagner made of them to a central figure of its opera the Masters Singers of Nuremberg , using even the melody of its song the Nightingale of Wittenburg (1523).

Goethe devoted to him its Hans Sachsens poetische Sendung

External bonds

http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/autoren/sachs.htm (Some German works)
http://www.fh-augsburg.de/~harsch/germanica/Chronologie/16Jh/Sachs/sac_intr.html (of other German works)
http://www.ni.schule.de/~pohl/literatur/sadl/renaiss/sachs.htm (still of other German works)
http://gutenberg.spiegel.de/wagner/mstrsing/mstrsing.htm (R. Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg )

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