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German literature timeline
c. 750
The professional bards of the Germanic tribes give lasting life to Norse legend
c. 800
Beowulf
, the first great work of Germanic literature, mingles the legends of Scandinavia with the experience in England of Angles and Saxons
c. 1180
The shared memories and legends of Nordic peoples are brought together in a great German epic, the
Nibelungenlied
c. 1205
The story of
Parsifal
and the Holy Grail becomes the subject of a courtly epic by Wolfram von Eschenbach
c. 1250
Tannhäuser is one of the Minnesinger, the German equivalents of the French troubadours
1523
Hans Sachs, popular poet and master singer, describes Luther as the Wittenberg nightingale
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