Tannhäuser was a German knight and poet, called a Minnesinger. He is
as one of the best known epic poets of medieval German literature, although his biography is obscure beyond the poetry. Beyond his poems (which were written between 1245 and 1265), there is not
much known about the real person. Tannhäuser soon became the stuff of legends, such as the minstrel contest at Wartburg castle.
In the 16th century he became the center part of a German folk ballad that grew into the
Tannhäuser legend. |
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