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Heinrich von Kleist.
German poet, dramatist, novelist and short story writer (1777–1811)
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About Heinrich von Kleist
Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist was a German poet, dramatist, novelist, short story writer and journalist. His best known works are the theatre plays The Prince of Homburg, Das Käthchen von Heilbronn, The Broken Jug, Amphitryon, and Penthesilea, and the novellas Michael Kohlhaas and The Marquise of O. Kleist ended his life in a suicide pact by shooting himself together with a close female friend who was terminally ill.
Everything about Heinrich von Kleist →- Occupation
- playwright, poet, short story writer, novelist
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Prussia, Germany
- Born
- October 18, 1777
- Died
- November 21, 1811