Klingsor Explained

Klingsor (also Klinschor) is a magician in the Middle High German epic poem Parzival (c. 1200).

Named for Klingsor:

• Klingsohr, character in Heinrich von Ofterdingen by Novalis (1802)
• Klingsor, magician in Richard Wagner's opera Parsifal (1882)
• Tristan Klingsor, pen name (c. 1895) of French poet Léon Leclère (1874—1966)
• Klingsor, painter and protagonist of Klingsor's Last Summer 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-Holenias (1948)
• 9511 Klingsor, a Main-belt Asteroid (1977)
• Herr Klingsor by Otfried Preußler (1987)
• Klingsor, code name of a Nazi scientist in Jorge Volpi's novel "In Search of Klingsor" (En busca de Klingsor, 1999)