Wannsee is a locality in the southwestern Berlin borough of Steglitz-Zehlendorf, Germany. It is the westernmost locality of Berlin. In the quarter there are two lakes, the larger Großer Wannsee and th
Jagdschloss Glienicke at the Havel river
Wannsee Villa at 56–58 Am Grossen Wannsee, where the Wannsee Conference was held
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
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…village of Stolpe, known to exist in 1299. The locality also includes the districts of Kohlhasenbrück (named after the 1811 novella Michael Kohlhaas by Heinrich von Kleist) and Steinstücken, which in Cold War days became famous as a tiny exclave of West Berlin within the GDR. Wannsee lake is a bathing and recreation spot…
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)