Neue Blicke auf einen 'alten Dichter'. Zum Stand der neueren Hans-Sachs-Forschung und ihren Perspektiven

Stimulated by the burgeoning noticeable in recent decades across the disciplines of research on culture and literature of the early modern period, interest in the body of literary works by the Nuremberg author Hans Sachs (1494-1576) is also on the rise again. This paper offers a report on scholarship devoted to his wide-ranging creative output and published between the re-emergence of Sachs studies in the mid-1970s up until the present day. Beginning with a retrospective that is primarily thematic in structure, it turns then to a discussion (in terms both of methodology and of content) of the focus and findings found in studies to date, as well as looking at continuing gaps and desiderata; those latter have in the main to do with textual problems, but also touch on many aspects (literary, historical etc.) yet to be properly examined. There follows, finally, a delineation, based on the status quo as presented, of in all four fundamentally relevant fields of study: the report thus provides a thematic and methodological framework of potential use for future research