He was the son of a schoolmaster, and was one of the most honest, while at the same time he was one of the most terrible persons of his period. Kleist wrote in a final letter to his sister that he viewed death. If one or more works are by a distinct, homonymous authors, go ahead and split the author. Heinrich wird einem prediger in berlin zur erziehung anvertraut. This book by a distinguished authority on kleist attempts to fill the gap by offering an up to date and challenging reading of his dramas and stories in the light of recent scholarship in german. The action of the drama takes place in swabia during the middle ages.
Kleists prose has all the expressive force of the verse dramas. He studied law and philosophy at the viadrina university and in 1800 received a subordinate post in the. Poets of the realist, expressionist, nationalist, and existentialist movements in france and germany saw their prototype in kleist, a poet whose demonic genius had foreseen modern problems of life and literature. Unappreciated in his own time, kleist posthumously received. Michael kohlhaas wikisource, the free online library. The innkeeper who housed them the night before described the couple, thirtyfour and thirtyone, as cheerful and voluble. By the time of his death in 1811 at the age of thirtyfour he made a suicide pact with a woman he barely knew his modest output of seven complete plays and eight novellen, or chronicle narratives, together with such critical essays as. November 1811 am stolper loch, heute kleiner wannsee.
This photographic reproduction is therefore also considered to be in the public domain in the united states. After a scanty education, he entered the prussian army in 1792, served in the rhine campaign of 1796, and retired from the service in 1799 with the rank of lieutenant. Studienarbeit aus dem jahr 2011 im fachbereich germanistik literaturgeschichte, epochen, note. Upon his fathers early death in 1788 when he was ten, he was sent to the house of the preacher s. The official position taken by the wikimedia foundation is that faithful reproductions of twodimensional public domain works of art are public domain. What they have in common is a focus on exceptional, striking, violent events that generates philosophical questions about the world order. Domingo geistererscheinung michael kohlhaas language.
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