Heinrich Heine: Audio Biography

The audiobook is devoted to the fate and development of Heinrich Heine—one of the most prominent German poets and publicists of the 19th century. Together with him, the listener will travel from his childhood years in a Jewish family on the banks of the Rhine through university, first attempts at writing and early literary successes to the Berlin period, when the famous "Book of Songs" appeared. The narrative focuses on the years of emigration in Paris: meetings and conversations with Goethe, Balzac, and Chopin, a biting political satire, and resistance to censorship. The story’s finale is the poet’s difficult last years, when, confined to bed by illness and living in his “mattress grave,” he continued to write until the very end. This is a story of a genius, a rebel, and a romantic whose poetry conquered the world.