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“Einen Newen Reformatorem”

Die Reformationsschauspiele von Martin Rinckart und die Reformpoetik von Martin Opitz

“A New Reformer”

The Reformation Plays by Martin Rinckart and the Reformation Poetry of Martin Opitz
In: Daphnis
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Dirk Rose Institut für Germanistik, Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck, Österreich, dirk.rose@uibk.ac.at

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The essay focuses on the drama-pieces planned by Martin Rinckart to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Reformation in 1617. They are concentrated around Martin Luther as a “hero” for the protestant confession, like in Der Eißlebische Christliche Ritter where Luther figures as a warrior of true belief. Special attention is paid first to the relation between text and music with regard to the performances of the pieces; and second to the question why Rinckart has obviously realized only three of the seven planned pieces about the reformation and Luther. For answering, the essay argues that the reform in poetics and poetry initiated by Martin Opitz has challenged the poetical concept of Rinckart’s pieces in such a way that he was unable to continue them. Ironically, his most famous religious poem Nun danket alle Gott has been rescued out of the wreckage of his ambitious plan of a Luther-Heptalogy.

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