Klingsor (also ''Klinschor'') is a magician in the Middle High German epic poem ''
Parzival
''Parzival'' () is a medieval chivalric romance by the poet and knight Wolfram von Eschenbach in Middle High German. The poem, commonly dated to the first quarter of the 13th century, centers on the Arthurian hero Parzival (Percival in English) ...
'' (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 nobility, German aristocrat and polymath, who was a poet, novelist, philosopher and Mysticism, mystic. He is regarded as an inf ...
(1802)
*Klingsor, magician in Richard Wagner's opera ''
Parsifal
''Parsifal'' ( WWV 111) is a music drama in three acts by the German composer Richard Wagner and his last composition. Wagner's own libretto for the work is freely based on the 13th-century Middle High German chivalric romance ''Parzival'' of th ...
'' (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 associ ...
, 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
Hermann Karl Hesse (; 2 July 1877 – 9 August 1962) was a Germans, German-Swiss people, Swiss poet and novelist, and the 1946 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His interest in Easte ...
'' by Hermann Hesse (1919), again mentioned in ''Die Morgenlandfahrt'' (1932)
*''Klingsor'' by
Friedrich Schnack (1922)
*character in ''Der Graf von Saint-Germain'' by
Alexander Lernet-Holenia
Alexander Lernet-Holenia (21 October 1897 – 3 July 1976) was an Austrian poet, novelist, playwright and writer of screenplays and historical studies who produced a heterogeneous literary opus that included poetry, psychological novels descri ...
(1948)
*
9511 Klingsor, a Main-belt Asteroid (1977)
*''Herr Klingsor'' by
Otfried Preußler
Otfried Preußler (; sometimes spelled Preussler; born Otfried Syrowatka; 20 October 1923 – 18 February 2013) was a German children's books author. More than 50 million copies of his books have been sold worldwide and they have been translate ...
(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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