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14 unusual facts about Heinrich Heine


Adolf Heinrich von Arnim-Boitzenburg

Arnim is known to this day for his remarks as Prussian Interior Minister concerning Heinrich Heine's poem Die schlesischen Weber.

Adolf Wilhelm Theodor Stahr

In 1845, Stahr and made a long journey through Italy, Switzerland and France, where he met Heinrich Heine.

Bacio di Tosca

The dark romantic music of Bacio di Tosca with lyrics by poets like Eduard Mörike, Heinrich Heine or Theodor Storm is distinct by Flemming's classical vocals.

Book of Songs

Buch der Lieder, a collection of poems written by 19th-century German poet and writer Heinrich Heine

Deaf to Our Prayers

The title was inspired by the famous poem "The Silesian Weavers" by German poet Heinrich Heine.

Die Streuner

The lyrics of their songs (which include works from authors such as Friedrich Schiller, Heinrich Heine, François Villon and Erich Kaestner) are mostly in German, with some pieces in French and English.

Giselle

He also took inspiration from a prose passage in Heinrich Heine's De l'Allemagne describing supernatural young women called the Wilis.

They took their inspiration from a prose passage about the Wilis in De l'Allemagne by Heinrich Heine, and from a poem about a girl who dies after an all-night ball called "Fantômes" in Les Orientales by Victor Hugo.

Hamid Arzulu

He translated and published into our language the works by German classic writer Heinrich Heine ("Die Harzreise"), Goethe's lyric poetry "West-Eastern Divan", Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's dramas "Nathan the Wise", "Emilia Galotti" and "Minna von Barnhelm", Friedrich Schiller's "Ballads", Bertolt Brecht's drama "Chalk cross" and Stefan Zweig's Novels.

Heinrich Heine

A Heine statue, originally located near Empress Elisabeth's palace in Corfu, was later rejected by Hamburg, but eventually found a home in Toulon.

Other events conspired to make Heine loathe this period of his life: he was expelled from a student fraternity for anti-Semitic reasons and he heard the news that his cousin Amalie had become engaged.

Mooskappe

In 1824 Heinrich Heine visited the Caroline and Dorothea mines at Clausthal.

Trepanga

Known for its usage of texts by Western romantic poets, like Heinrich Heine, Emily Dickinson, Emile Verhaeren or Robert Burns, Trepanga is a regular guest of Nashestvie, the largest Russian open-air rock festival.

William F. Martin

William Martin (born February 16, 1957, Bethesda, Maryland) is an American botanist, currently Head of the Institut für Molekulare Evolution, Heinrich Heine-Universität, Düsseldorf.


Cristina Trivulzio Belgiojoso

She also associated with the European artistic intelligentsia, including Alexis de Tocqueville, Honoré de Balzac, Alfred de Musset, Victor Hugo, Heinrich Heine, and Franz Liszt.

Jenny von Westphalen

Following their marriage, Karl and Jenny Marx moved to Rue Vaneau in Paris and befriended the German poet Heinrich Heine, who lived at Rue Matignon.

Old Wicked Songs

Through his teachings, Mashkan tells Hoffman that there is both "sadness and joy" in music and that he should experience real life examples to better connect him to the message of composer Robert Schumann's song cycle Dichterliebe and the poetry of Heinrich Heine.

Selma Meerbaum-Eisinger

Her work shows a heavy influence from those she studied: Heinrich Heine, Rainer Maria Rilke, Klabund, Paul Verlaine and Rabindranath Tagore.

Seweryn Berson

A student of Berlin-based conservatory of Heinrich Urban, he composed numerous operettas (Lekcja tańców - Dance lesson; 1902), serenades, romances and bagatellas, as well as numerous songs to the lyrics by Heinrich Heine, Henrik Ibsen and Maria Konopnicka.

Simon von Geldern

He was the great-uncle of Heinrich Heine, who describes him in his "Memoirs" as an adventurer and Utopian dreamer.