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Heinrich von Kleist Biographie
Die Biographie zum 200. Todestag Heinrich von Kleists am 21.11.2011
Wie kein anderer deutscher Dichter hat Kleist die Leser fasziniert. Doch was ist sein Geheimnis? Woher kommt die Tragik seines Lebens? Was sagt uns sein Werk heute?
In seiner großen Biographie zeichnet Günter Blamberger einen neuen Kleist: Anders als üblich erzählt er nicht vom Ende her, vom Selbstmord, sondern wählt die offene Perspektive, das Präsens, den Augenblick, wie er von Kleist selbst erlebt worden ist. Damit gelingt es ihm, das Beunruhigende und Staunenswerte offenzulegen, den Zündstoff in Kleists Leben und Werk zu zeigen. Entstanden ist das packende und anschauliche Porträt eines der großen deutschen literarischen Genies die definitive Biographie für unsere Zeit.
Wie kein anderer deutscher Dichter hat Kleist die Leser fasziniert. Doch was ist sein Geheimnis? Woher kommt die Tragik seines Lebens? Was sagt uns sein Werk heute?
In seiner großen Biographie zeichnet Günter Blamberger einen neuen Kleist: Anders als üblich erzählt er nicht vom Ende her, vom Selbstmord, sondern wählt die offene Perspektive, das Präsens, den Augenblick, wie er von Kleist selbst erlebt worden ist. Damit gelingt es ihm, das Beunruhigende und Staunenswerte offenzulegen, den Zündstoff in Kleists Leben und Werk zu zeigen. Entstanden ist das packende und anschauliche Porträt eines der großen deutschen literarischen Genies die definitive Biographie für unsere Zeit.
597 pages, Hardcover
First published February 11, 2011
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Günter Blamberger
26 booksProfessor of Modern German Literature at the University of Cologne and President of the Heinrich von Kleist society since 1996.
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September 1, 2012First read, first thoughts.
Too short. Wanted more. Too little evidence to have been written in Goethe's last journey style?
Impact of the war. So used to this with regard to WWI yet here Kleist (and Clausewitz I think) had been in action as an officer by the age of 13 and the war continued on and off as a background to his life.
What was done well. Kleist as crisis specialist. The undertaking not to write the life from the point of view of the death - no high road to suicide. The political background to writing and literary activity.
Michael Kohlhaas and the french revolution. The old order has been torn down. The old mores and certainites have no more force but new ones have not arisen - only power and violence.
Hermannschlacht - attrocites against own people, the body cut up and sent to the fifteen tribes. War as terrorism, as the preparedness to use terrorism, the coolness and calculation of such to achieve an end points to the RAF (in both senses maybe).
The death. Meaningless? Joyful?
Too short. Wanted more. Too little evidence to have been written in Goethe's last journey style?
Impact of the war. So used to this with regard to WWI yet here Kleist (and Clausewitz I think) had been in action as an officer by the age of 13 and the war continued on and off as a background to his life.
What was done well. Kleist as crisis specialist. The undertaking not to write the life from the point of view of the death - no high road to suicide. The political background to writing and literary activity.
Michael Kohlhaas and the french revolution. The old order has been torn down. The old mores and certainites have no more force but new ones have not arisen - only power and violence.
Hermannschlacht - attrocites against own people, the body cut up and sent to the fifteen tribes. War as terrorism, as the preparedness to use terrorism, the coolness and calculation of such to achieve an end points to the RAF (in both senses maybe).
The death. Meaningless? Joyful?
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