Heinrich von Kleist

Heinrich von Kleist was born in 1777 in Frankfurt an der Oder, into a family of old nobility that had given Prussia many officers. He joined the guards regiment in Potsdam in 1792 and left the army in 1799. In 1801, reading Kant shook his life plan founded on reason. Arrested by the French as a spy in 1807 and held at Fort de Joux, he then founded an art journal in Dresden with Adam Müller, and later published a daily newspaper in Berlin, the Berliner Abendblätter. He took his own life in 1811, with Henriette Vogel, on the shore of the Kleiner Wannsee.

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