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...first they came out beautifully-Max Reinhardt took to him, and when he was 27 one of his plays won the Kleist Prize (German counterpart of the Pulitzer Prize for drama)-but later his chestnuts be came .ashes, too. Not that he was perse cuted; he was 100% "Aryan." But he feared the tree, for above its gutted trunk it was sprouting heavy Nazi foliage...
...were such famous operatic names as Lotte Lehmann, Kerstin Thorborg, Rosa Pauly. In place of the grandiose stage productions of Faust and Jedermann, two new dramatic productions were scheduled: Goethe's Egmont and Amphitryon, a play by Germany's 19th-Century, romantic Playwright Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist...
...only had one since. Dinner in the Master' lodgings, the Master tall gray quiet man, professor in an antique tongue. Master's wife good company. Some talk about new parietal rules, plans for House dances. Back to the Attic a little after nine and an hour reading Kleist's "Prinz Friederich von Homburg" with text in one hand and Langenscheidts "Deutsch-Englisch" in the other. Listen to the radio and desultory talk with room-mates till...
...present teacher in German 1a, Prose and Poetry, 4, Goethe, 2a, Topics in the works of Heinrich von Kleist, and 26, Nineteenth Century literature, Professor Silz has been a member of the Faculty since...
...contemplated the concentric circles of an impenetrably intricate philosophy. August Wilhelm Schlegel, poseur, literateur, bon-viveur, set forth to win poetic glory, is remembered for his translation of Shakespeare. Ludwig Tieck's majestic, melancholy search for the essence of fairyland beauty produced an impossible, capricious comedy, "Puss in Boots." Kleist awakened from his dream of tearing from Goethe's brow the garlands of supremacy which lyric genius had placed, awakened to the ghoulish nightmare of inferiority, blew out his brains. Heine, dying in Paris, oppressed by his own poverty, announced the close of the romantic movement. The mystic images...