page_title: Hans Sachs
section_title: Works
hierarchical_section_title: Hans Sachs / Works
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context_page_description: Hans Sachs was a German Meistersinger, poet, playwright, and shoemaker.
context_section_description: He wrote over 6000 pieces of various kinds. Exact numbers vary widely in secondary literature, mainly because it is not always clear if a piece is an independent work or part of a larger work. Also, certain works may be put in different categories by different authors. His productivity is especially remarkable because he kept working as a shoemaker throughout his life. (As far as is known, the Mastersingers did not as a common practice write or sing for money.) His works include
  Mastersongs (German: Meisterlieder) proper (about 4200)
  other poems and songs
  Carnival plays
  Tragedies
  Comedies
  Prose dialogues
  Fables
  Religious tracts, including “A wonderful prophecy of the papacy about how things will go for it up until the end of the world” (German: Eyn wunderliche Weyssagung von dem Babsttumb, wie es ihm biz an das endt der welt gehen sol) in collaboration with Andreas Osiander (1527).
caption: Sämtliche Fabeln und Schwänke. 1 (1893)
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