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Friedrich Emil Ferdinand Heinrich Graf [1] Kleist von Nollendorf (Berlim, 9 de abril de 1762 — 17 de fevereiro de 1823) foi um marechal-de-campo prussiano. Kleist entrou para exército da Prússia em 1778 , serviu durante a Guerra da Sucessão Bávara , Guerras revolucionárias francesas e lutou em Jena durante as Guerras ...
The poet and author Heinrich von Kleist is the most famous member of the family. Notable members. Georg Kleist (around 1435–1508); Vogt of Rügenwalde and Chancellor to Bogislaw X, Duke of Pomerania.
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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Kleist was born into the von Kleist family in Frankfurt an der Oder in the Margraviate of Brandenburg, a province of the Kingdom of Prussia. After a scanty education, he entered the Prussian Army in 1792, served in the Rhine campaign of 1796, and retired from the service in 1799 with the rank of lieutenant. He studied law and philosophy at the Viad...
His first tragedy was The Schroffenstein Family (Die Familie Schroffenstein). The material for the second, Penthesilea (1808), queen of the Amazons, is taken from a Greek source and presents a picture of wild passion. More successful than either of these was his romantic play, Käthchen of Heilbronn (Das Käthchen von Heilbronn) (1808), a poetic dram...
Kleist is also famous for his essays on subjects of aesthetics and psychology which, to the closer look, show a keen insight into the metaphysical questions discussed by philosophers of his time, such as Kant, Fichte and Schelling.
His Gesammelte Schriften were published by Ludwig Tieck (3 vols. 1826) and by Julian Schmidt (new ed. 1874); also by Franz Muncker (4 vols. 1882); by Theophil Zolling (4 vols. 1885); byK. Siegen, (4 vols. 1895); and in a critical edition by Erich Schmidt (5 vols. 1904–1905). His Ausgewählte Dramen were published by K. Siegen (Leipzig, 1877); and hi...
Operas
1. Der Prinz von Homburg (1960), composed by Hans Werner Henze 2. Der zerbrochne Krug (1968/69), composed by Fritz Geißler 3. Penthesilea (1927), composed by Othmar Schoeck 4. Penthesilea (2015), composed by Pascal Dusapin
Films
1. Wie zwei fröhliche Luftschiffer (Like Two Merry Aeronauts, 1969), 85 min; written and directed by Jonatan Briel; DFFB Production. The film depicts the last three days of Kleist's life. With his lover, Henriette Vogel, dying of cancer, Kleist philosophizes about life and welcomes his planned suicide. 2. Michael Kohlhaas – der Rebell (1969), directed by Volker Schlöndorff 3. San Domingo (1970), directed by Hans-Jürgen Syberberg 4. Earthquake in Chile (1975), directed by Helma Sanders-Brahms...
Banham, Martin, ed. (1998). The Cambridge Guide to Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-43437-8.Croce, Benedetto (1924). "Kleist." In: European Literature in the Nineteenth Century.London: Chapman & Hall, pp. 52–59.Helbling, Robert (1975). The Major Works of Heinrich von Kleist. New York: New Directions. ISBN 0-8112-0563-0.Jacobs, Carol (1989). Uncontainable Romanticism: Shelley, Brontë, Kleist. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.Das Kleist-Portal Archived 2011-06-08 at the Wayback Machine (in German)Works by Heinrich von Kleist at Project GutenbergBiography. Biography. 1777 Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist was born in Frankfurt an der Oder on 18th October (according to an entry in the garrison church register; he himself always gave his date of birth as 10th October). He was the oldest son of staff sergeant, later major Joachim Friedrich von Kleist and his second wife Juliane Ulrike ...
The Napoleon Series > Biographies > Biographies. Prussian Generals of the Napoleonic Wars 1793-1815: Kleist, Friedrich Heinrich Ferdinand Emil. By: Digby Smith. Kleist, Friedrich Heinrich Ferdinand Emil (1145) Commander, II Corps in 1813. Born on 9 April 1762 in Berlin; his father was an official of the cathedral in Brandenburg.
Von Kleist distinguished himself at the Battle of Leipzig on the left wing near Markkleeberg and took part in the pursuit of the French Army as it retreated out of Germany. During the French Campaign in early 1814 he played a decisive role in the allied victory at the Battle of Laon (9-10 March, 1814).
