Michael Kohlhaas

Michael Kohlhaas

Michael Kohlhaas

Michael Kohlhaas

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Overview

"Michael Kohlhaas" from Heinrich von Kleist. German poet, dramatist, novelist, and short story writer (1777-1811).

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781522858652
Publisher: CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date: 12/20/2015
Pages: 74
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.15(d)

About the Author

Heinrich von Kleist was born in 1777 in Frankfurt, Germany, to a Prussian military family. He was placed into military service at 15, fought against the French, and resigned his commission at 21. Unable to obtain a civil service job, he started one of Germany’s first daily newspapers, which failed, and he traveled extensively through a Europe engulfed by the Napoleonic Wars. He was hospitalized for several mysterious illnesses, including surgery for an indeterminate sexual problem that led him to break off a marital engagement. Throughout, he wrote revolutionary plays and stories, such as Penthesilea and The Marquise of O—, embracing realism and rejecting the ideals of dominant German humanists such as Goethe. As part of a suicide pact, Kleist shot dead a terminally-ill friend, then himself, In 1811.
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