The legend has been the subject of German poems by Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart, , Wilhelm Müller, Nikolaus Lenau, Adelbert von Chamisso, August Wilhelm von Schlegel, Julius Mosen (an epic, 1838), and Ludwig Köhler; of novels by Franz Horn (1818), , and Levin Schücking; and of tragedies by Ernst August Friedrich Klingemann ("", 1827) and Joseph Christian Freiherr von Zedlitz (1844). It is either the Ahasuerus of Klingemann or that of Achim von Arnim in his play, '', to whom Richard Wagner refers in the final passage of his notorious essay .
The legend ha,s been the subject of German poems by Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart, , Wilhelm Müller, Nikolaus Lenau, Adelbert von Chamisso, August Wilhelm von Schlegel Julius Mosen (an epic 1838), and L,udwig Köhler; of novels by Franz Horn (1818), , and Levin Schücking; and of tragedies by Er,nst August Friedrich Klingemann ("", 1827) and Joseph Christian Freiherr von Zedlitz (1844). It is either the Ahasuerus of Klingemann or that of Achim von Arnim in his play, '' to whom Richard Wagner refers in the final passage of his notorious essay .