Hans Sachs

: This article refers to the poet. For other people of the same name, see Hans Sachs (disambiguation).

Historical significance

Hans Sachs is considered the most talented and famous of the meistersingers, and may be the only one with a lasting fame at all. Also, he is the one about whom most is known. The strict rules and the craftsmen's approach to poetry of the mastersingers produced a kind of poetry that was not really palatable for later ages. Their historical value lays in the fact that this movement encouraged the production of poetry by respectable commoners for their own pleasure and that of their kin. His carnival plays (comedies that were meant to be played during carnival) are considered his best works and are still played today. In those and in some other works he went beyond the conventions that a proper mastersong has to follow.

Related Topics:
Poetry - Carnival

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