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?AcknowledgmentsNotes on ContributorsIntroduction: The Artistic and Aesthetic Legacies of Heinrich von KleistJeffrey L. High and Carrie Collenberg-GonzálezKleist and Hegel’s Phenomenology of SpiritValerio Rocco LozanoOperatic Reception of Kleist’s Das Käthchen von Heilbronn: From Holbein’s Stage Adaptation to the Operas of Hoven, Lux, and ReinthalerGlen GrayStranger than Fiction: Thomas Mann and Stefan Zweig on Goethe, Kleist, and the Struggle with the DaemonElaine ChenBrecht, Kleist, and the Early GDR: The Berliner Ensemble’s Playbill for Der zerbrochne Krug (1952) and Its Renegotiation of Formalism, Realism, and Cultural HeritageMarkus WessendorfPenthesilea and Her Sisters: Visualizing the Feminine in the German Cultural Imagination of the 1970s and 1980sSeán AllanVictories of Insurrection: Heinrich von Kleist, Aleksandr Bek, and Heiner MüllerWolf KittlerCoetzee and Kafka with Kleist (and Job): Debating the ‘Kohlhaasian Solution’Tim MehiganFilm Adaptations of Kleist’s Michael Kohlhaas: On Triage, Recasting, and RestructuringSophia Clark and Jeffrey L. HighAn Earthquake in Chile in Mexico: Juan Villoro on KleistCraig EpplinThe Vanishing Point: Heinrich von Kleist, Frank Stella, and the American DreamCarrie Collenberg-GonzálezRighteous Rebels: Kleist’s Michael Kohlhaas and Andrei Zvyagintsev’s LeviathanCassio de OliveiraKleist in Yoko Tawada’s WorksSusan C. AndersonIndex of NamesIndex of Kleist’s Works