Heinrich von Kleist

Jeffrey L. High received his Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and is Professor of German Studies at California State University, Long Beach, as well as Guest Professor at Portland State University’s Deutsche Sommerschule am Pazifik. He is the co-editor of the volumes Schiller’s Literary Prose Works (2008), Who Is This Schiller (Now)? (2011); Heinrich von Kleist: Artistic and Political Legacies (2013); Inspiration Bonaparte? Napoleonic Occupation and German Culture (2021); and Heinrich von Kleist: Artistic and Philosophical Paradigms (2022). He is a 2018 recipient of the CSULB “President’s Award for Outstanding Faculty Achievement in Scholarship and Mentoring,” the 2019 recipient of the University Honors Program’s “Most Valuable Professor” award, and the 2020 recipient of CSULB awards for both Advising and Mentoring. Carrie Collenberg-González received her Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota and is Associate Professor and Section Head of German, and Director of the Deutsche Sommerschule am Pazifik at Portland State University. She has published articles on Heinrich von Kleist, German cinema, Goethe’s Faust, the aesthetics of terrorism, and the Red Army Faction, including articles in Feminist German Studies and the Goethe Yearbook. She is co-author of Cineplex: German Language and Culture Through Film (2014) and co-editor of Moving Frames: Photographs in German Film (2022). She is actively involved in the American and Oregon Association of Teachers of German and in the Coalition of Women in German.

Foreword: Interrogating Kleist?


Acknowledgments


Notes on Contributors





Introduction: The Artistic and Aesthetic Legacies of Heinrich von Kleist


 Jeffrey L. High and Carrie Collenberg-González





Kleist and Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit


 Valerio Rocco Lozano





Operatic Reception of Kleist’s Das Käthchen von Heilbronn: From Holbein’s Stage Adaptation to the Operas of Hoven, Lux, and Reinthaler


 Glen Gray





Stranger than Fiction: Thomas Mann and Stefan Zweig on Goethe, Kleist, and the Struggle with the Daemon


 Elaine Chen





Brecht, Kleist, and the Early GDR: The Berliner Ensemble’s Playbill for Der zerbrochne Krug (1952) and Its Renegotiation of Formalism, Realism, and Cultural Heritage


 Markus Wessendorf





Penthesilea and Her Sisters: Visualizing the Feminine in the German Cultural Imagination of the 1970s and 1980s


 Seán Allan





Victories of Insurrection: Heinrich von Kleist, Aleksandr Bek, and Heiner Müller


 Wolf Kittler





Coetzee and Kafka with Kleist (and Job): Debating the ‘Kohlhaasian Solution’


 Tim Mehigan





Film Adaptations of Kleist’s Michael Kohlhaas: On Triage, Recasting, and Restructuring


 Sophia Clark and Jeffrey L. High





An Earthquake in Chile in Mexico: Juan Villoro on Kleist


 Craig Epplin





The Vanishing Point: Heinrich von Kleist, Frank Stella, and the American Dream


 Carrie Collenberg-González





Righteous Rebels: Kleist’s Michael Kohlhaas and Andrei Zvyagintsev’s Leviathan


 Cassio de Oliveira





Kleist in Yoko Tawada’s Works


 Susan C. Anderson





Index of Names


Index of Kleist’s Works