by Heinrich von Kleist, Karl Biedermann · Antigonos Verlag · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783388896410
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«Briefe an seine Braut» is the correspondence of Heinrich von Kleist and Karl Biedermann, published in paperback by Antigonos Verlag (300 pages, in German).
The letters Heinrich von Kleist sent to his fiancée are gathered here in an edition based on the original manuscripts, offering them complete for the first time. Reading them reveals the most personal side of the German writer and shows how his emotional life and intellectual concerns intersect with his literary work.
Published in 2025, the volume bears the subtitle «zum ersten Male vollständig nach den Originalhandschriften». Karl Biedermann is listed as co-author alongside Heinrich von Kleist.
Reissue aimed at scholars of German literature and collectors of primary sources of Kleist's epistolary work.
Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist was a German poet, dramatist, novelist, short story writer and journalist. His best known works are the theatre plays The Prince of Homburg, Das Käthchen von Heilbronn, The Broken Jug, Amphitryon and Penthesilea, and the novellas Michael Kohlhaas and The Marquise of O. Kleist ended his life in a suicide pact by shooting himself together with a close female friend who was terminally ill.
