Wolkenstein Oswald

Wolkenstein Oswald The singer, poet and composer Oswald von Wolkenstein (1377-1445), born in South Tyrol, was a diplomat in the service of the German Emperor Sigismund I. (1368-1437) and the ruling dynasty of the Meinhardiner(Tyrol). All portraits show Oswald with a closed right eye. An examination of the skull from Oswald's grave found in 1973 revealed that this was a congenital malformation (smaller eye socket). His life and work can be regarded as exemplary for a knight of the late Middle Ages. He mastered ten languages and travelled a large part of the world known at that time from Europe to Turkey and the Middle East and North Africa.

Oswald donated a chapel in Bressanone Cathedral with a fresco of his shipwreck on the Black Sea. He was able to save himself on a barrel of malmsey wine, as he describes in two of his songs. In his poems there is repeated talk of wine and wine enjoyment, for example, he rhymed in 1415 about the wine of Überlingen on Lake Constance: "The wine is sweet as sloe potion, which makes the throat rough and sick, that my bright song is confused, often after Tramin my thought stands.

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