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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 .
This chapter focuses on Kleist's dramas, in which a more direct equivalence between letters and works can be found in traces of description that find their place, not surprisingly, within the theatrical context of stage settings and in descriptive accounts by characters (such as are provided, for example, by devices such as teichoscopia).
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Heinrich von Kleist, (born Oct. 18, 1777, Frankfurt an der Oder, Brandenburg—died Nov. 21, 1811, Wannsee, near Berlin), German writer. He served seven years in the Prussian army, and his work first attracted attention when he was in prison accused as a spy. The grim and intense drama Penthesilea (1808) contains some of his most powerful ...
Heinrich von Kleist was a German dramatist, among the greatest of the 19th century. 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.
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Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist, 18 October 1777 - 21 November 1811, was a German poet, dramatist, novelist and short story writer. Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist Adam and Frau Marthe during the trial, illustration for the VII scene of The Broken Jug, comedy by Heinrich von Kleist , engraving by Adolph Menzel .
Much of the conflicting criticism of this enigmatic character is reviewed, and his eight dramas are analyzed in detail both as works of art and as revelations of the author's mind and character....
Nov 21, 2019 · On 21 November 1811 the celebrated German writer Heinrich von Kleist killed himself and his close friend Henriette Vogel in a double suicide pact. Not eligible for church burial, they were buried at or close to the place where they died, by the Kleiner Wannsee lake between Berlin and Potsdam.
