Klingsor (also ''Klinschor'') is a magician in the Middle High German epic poem ''
Parzival
''Parzival'' is a medieval romance (heroic literature), romance by the knight-poet Wolfram von Eschenbach in Middle High German. The poem, commonly dated to the first quarter of the 13th century, centers on the Arthurian hero Percival, Parziva ...
'' (c. 1200).
Named for Klingsor:
*''Klingsohr'', character in ''Heinrich von Ofterdingen'' by
Novalis
Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg (2 May 1772 – 25 March 1801), pen name Novalis (), was a German polymath who was a writer, philosopher, poet, aristocrat and mystic. He is regarded as an idiosyncratic and influential figure of ...
(1802)
*Klingsor, magician in Richard Wagner's opera ''
Parsifal
''Parsifal'' ( WWV 111) is an opera or a music drama in three acts by the German composer Richard Wagner and his last composition. Wagner's own libretto for the work is loosely based on the 13th-century Middle High German epic poem ''Parzival'' ...
'' (1882)
*
Tristan Klingsor
Tristan Klingsor, birth name (Arthur Justin) Léon Leclère (born Lachapelle-aux-Pots, Oise department, 8 August 1874; died Nogent-sur-Marne, 3 August 1966), was a French poet, musician, painter and art critic, best known for his artistic associat ...
, pen name (c. 1895) of French poet Léon Leclère (1874—1966)
*Klingsor, painter and protagonist of ''
Klingsor's Last Summer
''Klingsor's Last Summer'' is a novella by Hermann Hesse.
Written over the course of a few weeks in July and August 1919, it was published in December 1919 in the ''Deutsche Rundschau
''Deutsche Rundschau'' is a literary and political periodi ...
'' by Hermann Hesse (1919), again mentioned in ''Die Morgenlandfahrt'' (1932)
*''Klingsor'' by
Friedrich Schnack Friedrich may refer to:
Names
*Friedrich (surname), people with the surname ''Friedrich''
*Friedrich (given name), people with the given name ''Friedrich''
Other
*Friedrich (board game), a board game about Frederick the Great and the Seven Years' ...
(1922)
*character in ''Der Graf von Saint-Germain'' by
Alexander Lernet-Holenias (1948)
*
9511 Klingsor, a Main-belt Asteroid (1977)
*''Herr Klingsor'' by
Otfried Preußler
Otfried Preußler (sometimes spelled as Otfried Preussler; both ; born Otfried Syrowatka; 20 October 1923 – 18 February 2013) was a German literature, German Children's literature, children's books author. More than 50 million copies of his books ...
(1987)
*Klingsor, code name of a Nazi scientist in
Jorge Volpi's novel "In Search of Klingsor" (''En busca de Klingsor'', 1999)
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