Das Erdbeben in Chili. Die Verlobung in St. Domingo

by Heinrich von Kleist

Heinrich von Das Erdbeben in Chili / Die Verlobung in St. Domingo Lesefreundlicher Großdruck in 16-pt-Schrift Edition Holzinger. Großformat, 216 x 279 mm Berliner Ausgabe, 2015 Vollständiger, durchgesehener Neusatz mit einer Biographie des Autors bearbeitet und eingerichtet von Michael Holzinger Das Erdbeben in Die Verlobung in St. Herausgeber der Michael Holzinger Viktor Harvion Umschlaggestaltung unter Verwendung des Heinrich von Kleist (Miniatur von Peter Friedel, 1801) Gesetzt aus Minion Pro, 16 pt.

Genres: Classics

44 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1988

About the author

The dramatist, writer, lyricist, and publicist Heinrich von Kleist was born in Frankfurt an der Oder in 1777. Upon his father's early death in 1788 when he was ten, he was sent to the house of the preacher S. Cartel and attended the French Gymnasium. In 1792, Kleist entered the guard regiment in Potsdam and took part in the Rhein campaign against France in 1796. Kleist voluntarily resigned from army service in 1799 and until 1800 studied philosophy, physics, mathematics, and political science at Viadrina University in Frankfurt an der Oder. He went to Berlin early in the year 1800 and penned his drama "Die Familie Ghonorez". Kleist, who tended to irrationalism and was often tormented by a longing for death, then lit out restlessly through Germany, France, and Switzerland.

After several physical and nervous breakdowns, in which he even burned the manuscript of one of his dramas, Heinrich von Kleist reentered the Prussian army in 1804, working in Berlin and Königsberg. There he wrote "Amphitryon" and "Penthesilea."

After being discharged in 1807, Kleist was apprehended on suspicion of being a spy. After this he went to Dresden, where he edited the art journal "Phoebus" with Adam Müller and completed the comedy "The Broken Pitcher" ("Der zerbrochene Krug") and the folk play "Katchen von Heilbronn" ("Das Käthchen von Heilbronn").

Back in Berlin, the one time Rousseau devotee had become a bitter opponent of Napoleon. In 1811, he finished "Prinz Friedrich von Homburg." Finding himself again in financial and personal difficulties, Heinrich von Kleist, together with his lover, the terminally ill Henriette Vogel, committed suicide near the Wannsee in Berlin in 1811.

[From http://www.heinrich-von-kleist.com/]

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Rezension bezieht sich auf Die Verlobung in St. Domingo

Eine Novelle aus der Zeit des Sklavenaufstandes in der französischen Kolonie St. Domingue, dem heutigen Haiti. Eindrückliche Schilderung des Rassenkonfliktes. Verrat und Treue, Leidenschaft und Verzweiflung sind die grossen Themen dieser Erzählung.