Heinrich von Kleist

Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist (18 October 1777 – 21 November 1811) was a German poet, dramatist, novelist, short story writer and journalist. His best known works are the theatre plays Das Käthchen von Heilbronn, The Broken Jug, Amphitryon and Penthesilea, and the novellas Michael Kohlhaas and The Marquise of O. Kleist died by suicide together with a close female friend who was terminally ill.

Heinrich von Kleist

Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist
18 October 1777
Frankfurt (Oder), Kingdom of Prussia, Holy Roman Empire

21 November 1811(1811-11-21) (aged 34)
Kleiner Wannsee, Berlin, Kingdom of Prussia

poet, dramatist, novelist, short story writer

German

Romanticism

The Broken Jug, The Marquise of O, Michael Kohlhaas, Penthesilea, The Prince of Homburg

The Kleist Prize, a prestigious prize for German literature, is named after him, as was the Kleist Theater in his birthplace Frankfurt an der Oder.

Die Familie Schroffenstein, written 1802, published anonymously in 1803, premiered 9 January 1804 in Graz

Robert Guiskard, Herzog der Normänner, written 1802–1803, published April/May 1808 in , first performed on 6 April 1901 at the Berliner Theater in Berlin

Phöbus

(The Broken Jug), written 1803–1806, premiered 2 March 1808 at the Hoftheater in Weimar

Der zerbrochne Krug

Amphitryon, written 1807, first performed on 8 April 1899 at the Neuen Theater in Berlin

, completed 1807, published 1808, first performed in May 1876 at the Königlichen Schauspielhaus in Berlin

Penthesilea

, written 1807–1808, partially published in Phöbus 1808, premiered 17 March 1810 at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna, revised and fully published in 1810

Das Käthchen von Heilbronn oder Die Feuerprobe. Ein großes historisches Ritterschauspiel

, written 1809, posthumously published 1821, first performed on 18 October 1860 in Breslau

Die Hermannsschlacht

(The Prince of Homburg), written 1809–1811, first performed on 3 October 1821 as Die Schlacht von Fehrbellin at the Burgtheater in Vienna

Prinz Friedrich von Homburg

His Gesammelte Schriften were published by Ludwig Tieck (3 vols. 1826) and by Julian Schmidt (new ed. 1874); also by Franz Muncker (4 vols. 1882); by Theophil Zolling (4 vols. 1885); by K. Siegen, (4 vols. 1895); and in a critical edition by Erich Schmidt (5 vols. 1904–1905). His Ausgewählte Dramen were published by K. Siegen (Leipzig, 1877); and his letters were first published by Eduard von Bülow, Heinrich von Kleists Leben und Briefe (1848).^[1]

Plays

Novellas and short stories

(1960), composed by Hans Werner Henze

Der Prinz von Homburg

(1968/69), composed by Fritz Geißler

Der zerbrochne Krug

(1927), composed by Othmar Schoeck

Penthesilea

Penthesilea (2015), composed by

Pascal Dusapin

Banham, Martin, ed. (1998). The Cambridge Guide to Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 0-521-43437-8.

ISBN

(1924). "Kleist." In: European Literature in the Nineteenth Century. London: Chapman & Hall, pp. 52–59.

Croce, Benedetto

Helbling, Robert (1975). The Major Works of Heinrich von Kleist. New York: New Directions. 0-8112-0563-0.

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Jacobs, Carol (1989). Uncontainable Romanticism: Shelley, Brontë, Kleist. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Hampp, Bernhard (2017). Wo das Käthchen aus dem Fenster sprang. Kleist-Archiv Sembdner in Heilbronn. In: Bernhard Hampp: Schwaben erlesen! Württemberg für Literaturfreunde und Bibliophile. Messkirch: Gmeiner Verlag. 978-3839221235. pp 135–136.

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Lamport, Francis John (1990). German Classical Drama: Theatre, Humanity and Nation, 1750–1870. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 0-521-36270-9.

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Maass, Joachim (1983). Kleist: A Biography. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux.

McGlathery, James (1983). Desire's Sway the Plays and Stories of Heinrich von Kleist. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. 978-081431-734-1.

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Meldrum Brown, Hilda (1998). Heinrich Von Kleist The Ambiguity of Art and the Necessity of Form. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 0-19-815895-5.

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Minde-Pouet, Georg (1897). . Weimar: Emil Felber.

Heinrich von Kleist, seine Sprache und sein Stil

Ohff, Heinz (2004). Heinrich von Kleist: Ein preussisches Schicksal. Munich: Piper Verlag 3-492-04651-7

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Parry, Idris (1988). "Kleist on Puppets." In: Speak Silence: Essays. Manchester: Carcanet.

(2007). The Equivocation of Reason: Kleist Reading Kant. Stanford: Stanford University Press ISBN 978-080475-587-0

Phillips, James

Servaes, Franz (1902). Heinrich von Kleist. Leipzig: E. A. Seemann.

Siebert, Eberhard (2009). Heinrich von Kleist – eine Bildbiographie. Heilbronn: Kleist-Archiv Sembdner 978-3-940494-59-7

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Staengle, Peter (2009). Kleist. Sein Leben. Heilbronn: Kleist-Archiv Sembdner 978-3-940494-44-3

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Steig, Reinhold (1901). Heinrich von Kleists Berliner Kämpfe. Berlin: W. Spemann.

(in German, English, Dutch, French, Italian, and Spanish) Dirk de Pol (2021). In: Dirk de Pol: Epochensplitterbruch. Pandavia, Berlin, pp. 24–52. ISBN 978-3-7531-5486-2

"Das Erhabene bei Kleist"

Archived 2011-06-08 at the Wayback Machine (in German)

Das Kleist-Portal

(in German)

Familienverband derer v. Kleist e.V

List of German-language playwrights

at Project Gutenberg

Works by Heinrich von Kleist

at Faded Page (Canada)

Works by Heinrich von Kleist

at Internet Archive

Works by or about Heinrich von Kleist

at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)

Works by Heinrich von Kleist

"On the Marionette Theatre", Translated by Idris Parry

at IMDb

Heinrich von Kleist