. Biography EssayAlthough chiefly remembered today as the genial shoemaker-poet and leader of Nuremberg's Meistersinger Guild in Richard Wagner's opera Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg (1862; translate...
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The German poet Hans Sachs (1494-1576) made Nuremberg famous in his time as a center of Meistergesang.Born in Nuremberg, the son of a tailor of the upper middle class, Hans Sachs was apprenticed to a ...
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Although chiefly remembered today as the genial shoemaker-poet and leader of Nuremberg's Meistersinger Guild in Richard Wagner's opera Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (1862; translated as The Mast...
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In the following essay, Burchinal considers a wide range of critics and their commentary on Sachs's meter.
For the past thirty years, ever since Goedeke1, in his introduction to “Dich...
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In the following essay, French examines Sachs's characterization of each class in contemporary society.
In the Fastnachtspiele of Sachs we find represented all the classes of society, from t...
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In the following essay, Sobel considers Sachs's handling of the popular German romance of Tristan and Isolde, arguing that his version was unique among writers who have dealt with the story.
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In the following essay, Sobel discusses the strengths of Sachs's early poems, including his use of images and symbols, which Sobel claims place Sachs among the best of Germany's post-med...
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In the following essay, Van D'Elden examines the differences between Sachs's and Suchenwirt's parodies of coats of arms, which Van D'Elden claims are a product of the expec...
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In the following essay, Sobel analyzes the influence that Martin Luther had on the works of Hans Sachs.
Hans Sachs was born in Nürnberg on 5 November 1494, the son of a master tailor. In 150...
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In the following essay, Schade analyzes the theme of the mortal sins in many of Sachs's plays and considers various critics' comments on this topic.
Recent research into the gesamtwer...
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In the following essay, Remshardt examines Sachs's rational approach to his material in Das Narren-Schneyden, which, the critic claims, puts him closer in spirit to Erasmus than to Luther.
A...
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In the following essay, Coupe discusses the relationship between the illustrations and the text in the works of Hans Sachs.
It is a commonplace of German literary and cultural history that the sixt...
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A special German panel convened Thursday to hear the case of a Jewish man from the United States seeking the return of a collection of rare posters stolen from his father by the Nazis that could be...
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Peter Sachs was only a year old in 1938 when the Nazis seized his father's collection of rare posters and the Jewish family fled to the United States.He returned to Germany on Tuesday for the first...
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When the great German bass Kurt Moll came out for his curtain call after the second act of Die Meistersinger at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich a few evenings ago, the audience gave him a hero&#...
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When the great German bass Kurt Moll came out for his curtain call after the second act of Die Meistersinger at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich a few evenings ago, the audience gave him a hero&#...
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Hans Sachs
Hans Sachs
Critical Essay by Mary Cacy Burchinal
German panel hears Nazi art case
