Editing Wandering Jew (section)

====Germany====

The legend has been the subject of German [[poem]]s by [[Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart]], {{ill|Aloys Schreiber|de}}, [[Wilhelm Müller]], [[Nikolaus Lenau]], [[Adelbert von Chamisso]], [[August Wilhelm von Schlegel]], [[Julius Mosen]] (an epic, 1838), and Ludwig Köhler;{{which?|reason=several people of this name in this era have articles on German Wikipedia|date=May 2023}} of [[novel]]s by [[Franz Horn]] (1818), {{ill|Oeklers|de}},{{who?|reason=[[:de:Theodor Oelckers]]? Note the typo if so|date=May 2023}} and [[Levin Schücking]]; and of [[tragedy|tragedies]] by [[Ernst August Friedrich Klingemann]] ("{{lang|de|Ahasuerus}}", 1827) and [[Joseph Christian Freiherr von Zedlitz]] (1844). It is either the Ahasuerus of Klingemann or that of [[Achim von Arnim]] in his play, ''{{ill|Halle and Jerusalem|de|Halle und Jerusalem}}'', to whom [[Richard Wagner]] refers in the final passage of his notorious essay {{lang|de|[[Das Judenthum in der Musik]]}}.

There are clear echoes of the Wandering Jew in Wagner's ''[[The Flying Dutchman (opera)|The Flying Dutchman]]'', whose plot line is adapted from a story by [[Heinrich Heine]] in which the Dutchman is referred to as "the Wandering Jew of the ocean",<ref>Heinrich Heine, {{lang|de|Aus den Memoiren des Herren von Schnabelewopski}}, 1834. See Barry Millington, ''The Wagner Compendium'', London (1992), p. 277</ref> and his final opera {{lang|de|[[Parsifal]]}} features a woman called Kundry who is in some ways a female version of the Wandering Jew. It is alleged that she was formerly [[Herodias]], and she admits that she laughed at Jesus on his route to the Crucifixion, and is now condemned to wander until she meets with him again (cf. Eugene Sue's version, below).

[[Robert Hamerling]], in his {{lang|de|Ahasver in Rom}} (Vienna, 1866), identifies [[Nero]] with the Wandering Jew. [[Johann Wolfgang von Goethe|Goethe]] had designed a poem on the subject, the plot of which he sketched in his {{lang|de|[[Dichtung und Wahrheit]]}}.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Goethe |first1=Johann Wolfgang von |translator-last=Morrison |translator-first=A. J. W. |title=The autobiography of Goethe: Truth and poetry, from my own life |date=1881 |publisher=George Bell |location=London |pages=35−37 |chapter=Fifteenth Book |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/autobiographyofg02goet/page/34/mode/2up |volume=II: Books XIV-XX|id=[Translated from the German]}}</ref><ref>P. Hume Brown,  [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/19753/19753-h/19753-h.htm ''The Youth of Goethe''] (London, 1913). Chapter XI, "Goethe and Spinoza—Der ewige Jude 1773–1774"</ref>