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Did Oswald von Wolkenstein Compose at his Writing Desk?

Stephan Zweig's essay 'Das Buch als Eingang zur Welt' relates his first and only encounter with an illiterate, a handsome Italian sailor whom he befriended on a Mediterranean cruise and with whom he soon felt close personal ties. When the sailor asked Zweig to read a letter to him, the author naturally assumed that it was in French or German or some other foreign language; so he was deeply shocked by the discovery that it was in Italian and that his friend was totally illiterate. Suddenly a barrier arose between these two erstwhile soul-mates; for now the author could only pity this poor Eunodi des Geistes, whose illiteracy damned him to live immured in himself. The remainder of the essay expresses Zweig's conviction that most of our knowledge comes from books. This disdain for illiteracy is common not only to authors like Zweig, but also to many scholars of medieval literature, who tend to attribute literacy to their favorite medieval authors whether or not the evidence justifies doing so. Wolfram von Eschenbach twice tells us that he was illiterate; yet most of his devotees insist that he was joking, even though his style is clearly that of an oral poet, as was his rendition of French words and names. Wolfram's illiteracy is still being disputed, and both camps remain unshakable in their faith. I myself think that Herbert Grundmann's facetious article 'Dichtete Wolfram von Eschenbach am Schreibtisch' clearly discredits the pro-literacy arguments of Friedrich Ohly and Hans Eggers, as well as those of all previous scholars who had maintained that Wolfram could read.