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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.
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.
Frankfurter Geschichten: Der rastlose Heinrich. Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist (* 10. [nach eigener Angabe] [1] oder 18. Oktober 1777 [laut Kirchenbuch] in Frankfurt (Oder), Brandenburg, Preußen; † 21. November 1811 am Stolper Loch, heute Kleiner Wannsee) war ein deutscher Dramatiker, Erzähler, Lyriker und Publizist .
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.
He was the oldest son of staff sergeant, later major Joachim Friedrich von Kleist and his second wife Juliane Ulrike, nee von Pannwitz. Of his six brothers and sisters, two sisters (Wilhelmine and Ulrike) came from his father’s first marriage.
May 11, 2018 · The plays and stories of the German author Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811) show a preoccupation with intense feelings and the problems these feelings may cause. Heinrich von Kleist was born in Frankfurt an der Oder on October 18, 1777.
The hero and heroine of the story both survive, are married, and seem set to live happily ever after while the villain is punished by a particularly unpleasant death. Truth and justice may seem in danger for a while, but perhaps the suspense only makes their eventual triumph the more satisfying.
