Jakob Ayrer
Jakob Ayrer (v. 1543 in Franconie - March 26th 1605 with Nuremberg) is a German, known dramatic author especially for its parts of Carnaval, the Fastnachtsspiele .
It would have been quincailler, then it would have studied theology and the right to Bamberg before becoming imperial notary and prosecutor in Nuremberg.
Regarded as a successor of Hans Sachs, Jakob Ayrer is the author of a hundred parts, of which an about sixty survived, joined together under the title Opus Theatricum and published in Nuremberg in 1618. Its parts were strongly influenced by the Théâtre élisabéthain, spread by the troops of “English actors” who furrow Europe at the end of the XVIe century. Some of its parts, among which one counts about thirty tragedies and comedies, are derived from the same sources as those of Shakespeare, of which it adapted several works.
Jakob Ayrer is also the author of a translation of the Psaume S , remained new, and of a chronicle of Bamberg, published in 1838 under the title Chronik der Stadt Bamberg .
External bond
- Works of Jakob Ayrer to the Deutschen Nationalbibliothek
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