„Die Wittembergisch Nachtigall, die man jetzt höret überall“ – Die Reformation Martin Luthers im Werk des Nürnberger Poeten Hans Sachs
“Die Wittenbergisch Nachtigall, die man jetzt höret überall” – Martin Luther’s Reformation in the works of the Nürnberg poet Hans Sachs

Summary/Abstract: The present paper deals with the productive impact of Martin Luther’s reformatory doctrine as being reflected in selected works of the Nuremberg shoemaker, poet and meistersinger Hans Sachs: in his poem ''Die Wittembergisch Nachtigall, die man jetzt höret überall'' (1523), in the first of his four reformatory prose dialogues ''Disputation zwischen einem Chorherren und Schuhmacher, darin das Wort Gottes und ein recht christlich Wesen verfochten wird'' (1524) as well as in his religious aubade ''Von dem Wort Gottes'' (1525) and in his poetic version of the eleventh psalm ''Ich trau auf Gott, den Herren mein'' (1526). The paper elucidates as to what extent the literary work of Hans Sachs was steeped in the fundamental ideas of Martin Luther’s reformatory discovery during those early years of protestant Reformation and how strongly Hans Sachs engaged in the publishing business during the beginning of the reformatory era in Germany.

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