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Wickram, Jörg

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Wickram, Jörg (1505–c 1560)

German writer. A town official in Colmar, he wrote novels, stories, and plays and established a Meistergesang society in Colmar in 1549. His significance as a writer lies in having transformed the mediaeval chivalric romance into tales that reflect the values of middle classes – a process that laid the foundations of the modern German novel.

One of his best-known novels is Der Jungen Knaben Spiegel (1557). He also wrote a very popular collection of tales, Rollwagenbüchlein /Stagecoach Booklet (1555).



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