Heinrich von Kleist
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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 Heilbron
Heinrich von Kleist, a portrait by Anton Graff, c. 1808
Grave of Kleist and Henriette Vogel at Berlin Kleiner Wannsee after renovation in 2011
Suicide letter addressed to his half-sister Ulrike
Kleist Monument in Frankfurt (Oder)
Franz Kafka
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Franz Kafka was a German-language Jewish Czech writer and novelist born in Prague, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Widely regarded as a major figure of 20th-century literature, his works fuse elements
Heinrich von Kleist
…der Musik) are also fine examples of Kleist's story telling as is The Marquise of O (Die Marquise von O). His short narratives influenced those of Kafka and the novellas of the Austrian writer Friedrich Halm. He also wrote patriotic lyrics in the context of the Napoleonic Wars. Kleist's work also delved…
Kafka in 1923
Kafka at about ten with his sisters Valli (left) and Elli (center)
Kinský Palace where Kafka attended gymnasium and his father owned a shop
Former home of the Worker's Accident Insurance Institute