Michael Kohlhaas

by Heinrich von Kleist

Overview

Der angesehene Rosshändler Michael Kohlhaas ist auf dem Weg mit nach Sachsen um Reitpferde zu veräußern. Doch er wird an der Burg des Junkers Wenzel von Tronka nach seinem Passierschein gefragt und muß seine Pferde als Pfand zurücklassen. In Dresden erfährt er, dass es keinen Passierschein gibt. Als er zurückkommt und die edlen Pferde auslösen will, sind diese durch harte Feldarbeit abgemagert und wertlos. Kohlhaas reicht beim Kurfürsten von Sachsen Klage ein, die abgewiesen wird. Weitere Versuche enden im Tod seiner Frau. Verbittert beginnt er einen Rachefeldzug.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783733903800
Publisher:	aristoteles
Publication date:	12/09/2013
Sold by:	Libreka GmbH
Format:	eBook
Pages:	223
File size:	962 KB
Language:	German

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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