Article: 'Ich, Michel Pehn': Zum Kunst-und Rollenverstandnis des meisterlichen Berufsdichters Michel Beheim.(Book Review)

'Ich, Michel Pehn': Zum Kunst- und Rollenverstandnis des meisterlichen Berufsdichters Michel Beheim. By FRIEDERIKE NIEMEYER. (Mikrokosmos: Beitrage zur Literaturwissenschaft und Bedeutungsforschung, 59) Frankfurt a.M., Berlin, and Bern: Lang. 2001. 398pp. 33 [euro]. ISBN 3-631-36945-x (pbk).

Although generally regarded as a poet of modest ability, Michel Beheim (1420-after 1472) is nevertheless a fascinating figure in fifteenth-century German poetry, active in the transitional phase between courtly Sangspruchdichtung and urban Meistersang. His works (453 songs and three verse chronicles), surviving in autograph manuscripts or in manuscripts corrected by him, dating ...

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