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 * Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist** (18 October 1777 – 21 November 1811) was a poet, dramatist, novelist and short story writer. The Kleist Prize, a prestigious prize for German literature, is named after him

Apparently a Romantic by context, predilection, and temperament, Kleist subverts clichéd ideas of Romantic longing and themes of nature and innocence and irony, instead taking up subjective emotion and contextual paradox to show individuals in moments of crises and doubt, with both tragic and comic outcomes, but as often as not his dramatic and narrative situations end without resolution. Seen as a precursor to Henrik Ibsen and modern drama because of his attention to the real and detailed causes of characters’ emotional crises, he was also understood as a nationalist poet in the German context of the early twentieth century, and was instrumentalized by Nazi scholars and critics as a kind of proto-Nazi author. (Source: [])


 * Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist**

//The Broken Jug// //Penthesilea// //The Prince of Homburg//
 * List of Plays:**

[|http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/54427.Heinrich_von_Kleist]
 * Links:**
 * [|www.theatrehistory.com/german/]**[|kleist]**[|001.html] **
 * [|www.southerncrossreview.org/9/]**[|kleist]**[|.htm] **