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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 .
Gedenktafel am Ort des Geburtshauses in Frankfurt (Oder) Heinrich von Kleist entstammte einer Familie des pommerschen Uradels, dem in Preußen eine herausgehobene Stellung zukam. Er wurde als fünftes Kind und erster Sohn seines Vaters geboren.
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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Heinrich von Kleist received his first lessons from a private tutor – theologian and later the headmaster of Frankfurt’s secondary school, Christian Ernst Martini (1762-1833). 1788 Death of Kleist’s father on 18 th June. Kleist was taught by preacher Samuel Heinrich Catel (1758-1838) in Berlin, among others.
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.
May 11, 2018 · Learn about the life and works of Heinrich von Kleist, a German dramatist and writer of the Romantic era. Explore his military background, his love affair, his literary career, and his mysterious suicide.
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