Books by Heinrich Heine
Heinrich Heine's Gesammelte Werke. (German Edition)
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A Very German Christmas: The Greatest Austrian, Swiss and German Holiday Stories of All Time (Very Christmas, 5)
by Hermann Hesse, Rainer Maria Rilke, Thomas Mann, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Joseph Roth, Heinrich Heine, Erich Kästner, Martin Suter, Arthur Schnitzler
The fifth volume in our popular Very Christmas series, this collection brings together traditional and contemporary holiday stories from Austria, Switzerland, and Germany. You'll find classic works by the Brothers Grimm, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Heinrich Heine, Thomas Mann, Rainer Maria Rilke, Hermann Hesse, Joseph Roth, and Arthur Schnitzler, as well as more recent tales by writers like Heinrich Böll, Peter Stamm, and Martin Suter. Eine fröhliche Weihnachten—A Merry Christmas—made all the more festive with these literary treats redolent of candle-lit trees, St. Nikolaus, gingerbread, the Christkindl, roast goose and red cabbage, Gugelhopf and stollen cakes, accompanied by plenty of schnapps.
Joseph Roth’s story “Christmas in Cochinchina,” published in English for the first time in this collection, appeared in the December 2020 issue of Harper’s Magazine.
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The Harz Journey and Selected Prose (Penguin Classics)
A poet whose verse inspired music by Schubert, Schumann, Mendelssohn and Brahms, Heinrich Heine (1797-1856) was in his lifetime equally admired for his elegant prose. This collection charts the development of that prose, beginning with three meditative works from the Travel Pictures, inspired by Heine's journeys as a young man to Lucca, Venice and the Harz Mountains. Exploring the development of spirituality, the later On the History of Religion and Philosophy in Germany spans the earliest religious beliefs of the Germanic people to the philosophy of Hegel, and warns with startling force of the dangers of yielding to 'primeval Germanic paganism'. Finally, the Memoirs consider Heine's Jewish heritage and describe his early childhood. As rich in humour, satire, lyricism and anger as his greatest poems, together the pieces offer a fascinating insight into a brilliant and prophetic mind.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
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Hebrew Melodies (Dimyonot: Jews and the Cultural Imagination)
One of the most important German poets of the nineteenth century, Heinrich Heine was a convert without conviction. He chose Christianity over Judaism as a means of securing an academic career, but when his conversion failed to yield the hoped-for job opportunities, he devoted himself to writing instead. This volume presents a new translation of Hebrew Melodies, the third cycle of poems in Heine’s late masterwork, Romanzero, which many critics have interpreted as Heine’s return to his Jewish roots.
As Elisheva Carlebach explains in her foreword, Heine’s “return to God” in his final years was motivated not by faith but by a deep admiration of the Jewish people―a sentiment that is clearly reflected in the poems that make up Hebrew Melodies. This edition presents the original German alongside new English translations by Stephen Mitchell, widely known for his ability to make old classics thrillingly new, and Jack Prelutsky, the author of more than fifty poetry collections for children and adults. Mark Podwal’s illustrations beautifully portray the joyous, playful elements of Jewish tradition and hint at what Carlebach calls the “menacing edges of history’s nightmares,” echoing Heine’s position as a poet “caught between worlds.”
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Die romantische Schule: Krit. Ausg (Universal-Bibliothek ; Nr. 9831) (German Edition)
Text: German
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Heine: 'On the History of Religion and Philosophy in Germany' (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy)
by Heinrich Heine, Terry Pinkard
This volume presents a colourful and entertaining overview of German intellectual history by a central figure in its development. Heinrich Heine (1797–1856), famous poet, journalist, and political exile, studied with Hegel and was personally acquainted with the leading figures of the most important generation of German writers and philosophers. In his groundbreaking History he discusses the history of religion, philosophy, and literature in Germany up to his time, seen through his own highly opinionated, politically aware, philosophically astute, and always ironic perspective. This work, and other writings focussing especially on Heine's rethinking of Hegel's philosophy, are presented here in a new translation by Howard Pollack-Milgate. The volume also includes an introduction by Terry Pinkard which examines Heine both in relation to Hegel and Nietzsche and as a thinker in his own right.
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Songs of Love and Grief: A Bilingual Anthology in the Verse Forms of the Originals (European Poetry Classics)
A translation of Heinrich Heine's love poems. This bilingual edition includes an introduction by Heine scholar Jeffrey L. Sammons. The author aims to capture the meaning of the original, but preserve the poems' rhyme schemes as well as their moods.
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Deutschland. Ein Wintermärchen
Heine war davon überzeugt, daß er mit seinem "Werkchen" Deutschland. Ein Wintermärchen etwas verfaßt hatte, das "mehr Furore machen wird, als die populärste Broschüre, und das dennoch den bleibenden Wert einer klassischen Dichtung haben wird". Recht hatte er. Mit seinem Versepos sollte er zwar in kürzester Zeit die gesamte empörte Presse gegen sich haben, aber auch heute noch ist es aus unseren Bücherschränken nicht wegzudenken.
Was hier zunächst als genauer Reisebericht über eine Reise daherkommt, die Heine im Jahre 1843 von Paris über Aachen und Köln nach Hamburg führte, entpuppt sich auf den zweiten Blick als eine bissige politische Satire. Heine prangert u.a. die politische Rückständigkeit an, die das in viele Kleinstaaten zersplitterte Deutschland kennzeichnete; die drastischen Zensurpraktiken, mit denen die freie Meinungsäußerung verhindert wurde; sowie die Willkür des Polizeistaats Preußen unter der Herrschaft von Friedrich Wilhelm IV.
Es verwunderte niemanden, daß Heines Werk sofort nach dem Erscheinen verboten wurde. Was ihm als besonders negativ vorgeworfen wurde, war nicht nur der brisante Inhalt, sondern vielmehr die Verbindung von Form und Inhalt. Der Dichter hatte hier nämlich eine Variation der Vagantenstrophe verwendet, durch die die Strophen eine besondere Leichtigkeit erhielten und die zusammen mit der saloppen Sprache den Kritikern und Bewahrern der politischen Zustände geradezu wie schallendes Hohngelächter anmuteten.
Gerd Wameling bringt in der Erarbeitung für das Hörbuch diese pointierte Sprache zum Schillern und läßt in seiner Lesung die originellen Wortspiele und den scharfen Sprachwitz des großen Dichters von neuem aufblitzen.
So erwarten den Hörer fast eineinhalb Stunden Vergnügen auf höchstem Niveau bei diesem -- erfreulicherweise ungekürzten -- Hörgenuß. --Anne Hauschild
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