Abstract
This essay deals with the mise-en-scène of art and disability in Ulrich von Liechtenstein’s Frauendienst, a fictional autobiography from around 1250. The operation of a cleft lip of the first-person narrator and the cutting off of a finger in the service of his lady are read against the background of various discourses. It turns out that the medical topic is transformed into a poetological discourse: The physical infirmity is, e.g., idealized and aestheticized when the truncated finger is included into a golden book cover. In thematizing disability, however, it also becomes clear that the poet’s sufferings make him distinguishable from the sufferings of others and that he ultimately finds a unique characteristic in his suffering.
Über den Autor: Ronny F. Schulz, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
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Empfohlene Zitierweise: Ronny F. Schulz: „Zur Inszenierung körperlicher Defizite als Manifestation poetischer Potenz in Ulrichs von Liechtenstein ‘Frauendienst’“ , in: Kunst und Gebrechen, hg. v. Hildegard Fraueneder, Manfred Kern und Nora Grundtner, Wien: Sonderzahl 2024 (Figurationen des Übergangs 1), S. 279-302, DOI: 10.25598/transitionen-2024-i_10, <https://transition.hypotheses.org/4828>