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Das Erdbeben in Chili
1810
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In St. Jago, der Hauptstadt des Königreichs Chili, stand gerade in dem Augenblicke der groben Erderschütterung vom Jahre 1647, bei welcher viele tausend Menschen ihren Untergang fanden, ein junger, auf ein Verbrechen angeklagter Spanier, namens Jeronimo Rugera, an einem Pfeiler des Gefängnisses, in welches man ihn eingesperrt hatte, und wollte sich erhenken..." Bereits mit diesem Satz, dem ersten Satz der 1807 veröffentlichten Novelle, katapultiert Kleist den Leser in medias res. Das tragische Geschick des jungen Mannes Jeronimo, der verbotener Weise die schöne Adlige Josephe liebt, ist hier allerdings noch nicht auf seinem fatalen Höhepunkt angelangt. Und auch Josephe, die in diesem Moment hingerichtet werden soll, wird dank des Erdbebens noch einmal verschont. Die Naturkatastrophe kommt den Liebenden zur Hilfe und vereitelt ihren Tod. Doch es bleibt ihnen nicht mehr viel Zeit...
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Heinrich von Kleist
Heinrich von Kleist
Author · 31 books

The dramatist, writer, lyricist, and publicist Heinrich von Kleist was born in Frankfurt an der Oder in 1777. Upon his father's early death in 1788 when he was ten, he was sent to the house of the preacher S. Cartel and attended the French Gymnasium. In 1792, Kleist entered the guard regiment in Potsdam and took part in the Rhein campaign against France in 1796. Kleist voluntarily resigned from army service in 1799 and until 1800 studied philosophy, physics, mathematics, and political science at Viadrina University in Frankfurt an der Oder. He went to Berlin early in the year 1800 and penned his drama "Die Familie Ghonorez". Kleist, who tended to irrationalism and was often tormented by a longing for death, then lit out restlessly through Germany, France, and Switzerland. After several physical and nervous breakdowns, in which he even burned the manuscript of one of his dramas, Heinrich von Kleist reentered the Prussian army in 1804, working in Berlin and Königsberg. There he wrote "Amphitryon" and "Penthesilea." After being discharged in 1807, Kleist was apprehended on suspicion of being a spy. After this he went to Dresden, where he edited the art journal "Phoebus" with Adam Müller and completed the comedy "The Broken Pitcher" ("Der zerbrochene Krug") and the folk play "Katchen von Heilbronn" ("Das Käthchen von Heilbronn"). Back in Berlin, the one time Rousseau devotee had become a bitter opponent of Napoleon. In 1811, he finished "Prinz Friedrich von Homburg." Finding himself again in financial and personal difficulties, Heinrich von Kleist, together with his lover, the terminally ill Henriette Vogel, committed suicide near the Wannsee in Berlin in 1811. [From http://www.heinrich-von-kleist.com/]

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