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Ludwig Marcuse | Heinrich Heine | English Title: Heinrich Heine<br>368 Pages

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368 Pages
Published in July 2008

ISBN 978-3-257-20258-8
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Ludwig Marcuse
Heinrich Heine

The first edition of this book appeared in 1932, one year before the start of the Third Reich, and the second in 1951, six years after its end. Heine was banned in Nazi Germany, and Marcuse had to flee. »I had never considered what I would do if I had to do something – but wrote a Heine book in which I very vigorously described the position of the beloved writer. I grew so fond of him because he had addressed myself and my friends long before we came into the world, and is just as relevant today as he was in 1840 and 1933. When I published the book in 1932, I had no idea whom I had written so much about.« Almost 70 years after the first edition, almost 150 years after the death of Heine, and nearly thirty years after the death of Marcuse, this biography is still relevant.

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»Ludwig Marcuse’s ›Heinrich Heine‹ is also a kind of self-portrait of Marcuse. And it is this subjectivity that prevents his biographies from becoming outdated or overtaken by new research. And then there is Marcuse’s style, which is always vivid, clear and polemical.«Bayerischer Rundfunk

»Each of the eight passages of this book reveals surprising aspects. Ludwig Marcuse shows a diverse and ambivalent Heine; a bourgeois revolutionary and a timid hero, an enemy of the clergy, a loather of the aristocracy, and a royalist, German-sentimentalist European. But above all, Marcuse wants to demonstrate one thing: ›He is much more our contemporary than those who write and talk at this moment.‹«Berliner Lesezeichen

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