Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Heinrich von Kleist
Born: October 18, 1777
Died: November 21, 1811 (aged 34)
Bio: Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist was a German poet, dramatist, novelist and short story writer. The Kleist Prize, a prestigious prize for German literature, is named after him, as was the Kleist Theater in his birthplace.
Known for:
- Penthesilea (1808)
- Michael Kohlhaas (1810)
- The Broken Jug
- The Prince of Homburg
- The Marquise of O (1808)