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Kleist has fascinated readers like no other German writer. How did a one-time soldier with an unremarkable literary education become one of the greatest innovators of German literature? What allows for the tragedy of his life? In what ways does his work speak to us today? In his great biography Günter Blamberger gives us a new Kleist: Unlike conventional approaches, he does not try to understand Kleist's life from the perspective of its end--from the perspective of his suicide as the final catastrophe of a life in permanent crisis. Rather, he remains at eye-level with Kleist's present, narrating from the perspective of Kleist's experience--in the moment with him--capturing the unsettling or the astonishing in each phase of his life, the explosive nature of each one of his risky experiments in living and writing. The result is an indispensable work of German literary history--a vivid, captivating biography of one of the greatest literary geniuses of all time.
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Come ride along and live the adventure of the men of Mjölnir (the name of the legendary hammer of Thor, the Norse god of war.) an eleven-man German special forces unit of World War II. A forward observation group for the German war machine, the Wehrmacht, and their panzer tank divisions. Join them as they spearhead the advance through Europe, the occupation of France, the Normandy invasion, the fall of the thousand-year Reich, the occupation of Germany by Russian and Allied forces, to the final destinies of a unit called Mjölnir. In honor of all the brave men and women on all sides of all wars, especially the veterans and current enlisted men in the armed forces of the United States of America, a percentage of the profits from the sale of this book will be donated to aid Veterans Affairs.