Liedpoetik und soziale Praxis

Abstract

This article is dedicated to the Leipzig Ovid translator and song poet Johann Georg Schoch. It focusses on Schoch’s major work Neu-erbaueter Poetischer Lust- u[nd] Blumen-Garten (1660). The article analyses the poetics and social references of this collection. The author argues that the bucolic, erotic, and sociable songs are linked by intertextual references to works by other Leipzig authors such as Paul Fleming and Gottfried Finckelthaus. Schoch’s contrafactum of an ode by his student friend David Schirmer (“Immer hin/ fahr immer hin”) shows that the songs function as a keepsake of remembrance and identify both authors as members of a local group. They also provide insights into the social practice of student sociability.