German Med/Ren Lit

[In The Great White North]

I am thinking about creating a German course for dd(17) to parallel our Middle Ages/Renaissance studies. Based on the Matu literature list (and the ones I have heard of before,) I am considering: Niebelungenlied, Parzival, Walter von der Vogelweide, Faust and Wilhelm Tell. However, for Walter von der Vogelweide it just says "Gedichte." Does anyone have any recommendations for specific poems?

[regentrude]

In my German school education, I encountered three poems by Walter von der Vogelweide:
Ich saz uf einem steine

Ich han min lehen

Ahi wi christenliche nu der babest lachet

I would definitely recommend the second one because of its relation to the feudalistic system - nice societal context.
The third one is pretty close to political satire of the day, very interesting.

Since this is Middle High German, it is rather hard to read, so unless your DD has a specific linguistic interest, I'd leave it as a few samples.

Are you native speakers?

[In The Great White North]

DH is but I'm not. Dd did 7th grade in Switzerland and is doing a few more months at the Kanti now, so she's pretty fluent. And very studious. She's already maxed out the German at the local high school and the AP test. The local college (Dartmouth) has abysmal course selections in German after the beginning levels, so we're trying to put together something that would approximate the reading and writing level at the Swiss Kanti.

[cathmom]

Read Tristan! It's so good!

And there's a little story called "Der arme Heinrich" by Hartmann von Aue that maybe she could read in modern German.

[Yenisei]

If you are willing to consider works written as late as Faust was, then I guess Emilia Galotti by Lessing and Kabale und Liebe by Schilling qualify. Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther might be another classic worth reading, and I also recommend Carolus Stuardus by Andreas Gryphius.

[regentrude]

If you are willing to consider works written as late as Faust was, then I guess Emilia Galotti by Lessing and Kabale und Liebe by Schilling qualify. Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther might be another classic worth reading, and I also recommend Carolus Stuardus by Andreas Gryphius.

I would assume the OP wanted to include Faust because it is based on a medieval legend, and Wilhelm Tell because the plot is happening (and referring to actual historical events) in the Middle Ages.
By no stretch of the definition of "Renaissance" can Goethe and Schiller be considered Renaissance authors.