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4 unusual facts about Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz


Christian Friedrich Schwan

Schwan's bookstore and home were centers of literary life in Mannheim, where luminaries such as Lessing, Wieland, Herder, Goethe, Lenz, Schubart and Schiller were occasional visitors.

Fabel

The play itself might be by Farquhar or Gerhart Hauptmann, Lenz or Molière, but ‘the writer’s words are only sacred insofar as they are true’.

Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz

In January 1778 Kaufmann sent Lenz to the philanthropist, social reformer and clergyman Johann Friedrich Oberlin in Waldersbach in Alsace, where he stayed from 20 January to 8 February.

In the following year, 1772, Lenz accompanied his masters to the garrisons of Landau, Fort Louis and Wissembourg.


Bernd Alois Zimmermann

Die Soldaten Opera in four acts, libretto by the composer after the drama of the same name by Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz (1965)


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