
Heinz Ohff (1922–2006)
Author of Der grüne Fürst: Das abenteuerliche Leben des Hermann Pückler-Muskau
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Works by Heinz Ohff
Der grüne Fürst: Das abenteuerliche Leben des Hermann Pückler-Muskau (1991) — Author — 41 copies, 3 reviews
Auf Reisen bin ich Mensch — Author — 2 copies
Zuhause und anderswo — Author — 1 copy
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- Legal name
- Ohff, Heinz
- Other names
- N. Wendevogel
- Birthdate
- 1922-05-12
- Date of death
- 2006-02-24
- Gender
- male
- Occupations
- Journalist
- Nationality
- Germany
- Birthplace
- Eutin, Schleswig-Holstein, Deutschland
- Places of residence
- Eutin, Germany
Berlin, Germany
St Ives, Cornwall, England, UK - Associated Place (for map)
- Germany
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Reviews
This biography was a very quick and easy read. It's not an academic work and its intended audience is not a professional one, and that was what I was looking for: A book containing the most important facts and aspects, not a lengthy and extensive work.
However, I do feel that this was a little too superficial and somehow missed its mark. After reading it, I still feel that I missed something, that I don't know why Kleist is such an important German writer or what makes his works so show more special.
The story of his life is told in an interesting way: The many failures as a writer, as an employee of the Prussian state and a publisher, his private hardships which meant that he lost his fiancée to another man and was rejected by his family. He was burdened by unnamed illnesses (probably depression), tried to start a new life many times, and in the end took is life to flee from the pressure and the disappointment and keep his independence.
Kleist's works are frequently mentioned, but as I said, this book fails to make clear (or even to mention) just what makes them so special and why Kleist is one of the lone wolves of German literature who can never be really included in one movement or literary epoch. And even throughout the story of his life I feel that I am missing the real man behind the whining and the sadness - why did he really want to write and what drove him to sit in a room for months and work on the same manuscript? Although this book was a pleasant read and an easy introduction, I guess I'll need to read another Kleist biography to find out. show less
However, I do feel that this was a little too superficial and somehow missed its mark. After reading it, I still feel that I missed something, that I don't know why Kleist is such an important German writer or what makes his works so show more special.
The story of his life is told in an interesting way: The many failures as a writer, as an employee of the Prussian state and a publisher, his private hardships which meant that he lost his fiancée to another man and was rejected by his family. He was burdened by unnamed illnesses (probably depression), tried to start a new life many times, and in the end took is life to flee from the pressure and the disappointment and keep his independence.
Kleist's works are frequently mentioned, but as I said, this book fails to make clear (or even to mention) just what makes them so special and why Kleist is one of the lone wolves of German literature who can never be really included in one movement or literary epoch. And even throughout the story of his life I feel that I am missing the real man behind the whining and the sadness - why did he really want to write and what drove him to sit in a room for months and work on the same manuscript? Although this book was a pleasant read and an easy introduction, I guess I'll need to read another Kleist biography to find out. show less
Writing style not my cup of tea
Etwas älteren EisesserInnen dürfte die Bezeichnung 'Fürst-Pückler-Eis' durchaus noch geläufig sein - aber wissen sie auch, wer der Namensgeber war? Ein Abkömmling des Hochadels, geboren 1785, Sympathisant der Revolution, Schriftsteller, Reisender, Landschaftsgartengestalter, Dandy, Abenteurer und ein Liebhaber der Frauen – aller Frauen. Casanova dürfte neidisch werden, wenn man ihm von Hermann Pückler-Muskaus Eroberungen berichten würde. Doch dies ist nur ein Aspekt seiner show more Persönlichkeit, wenn auch kein unwesentlicher.
Heinz Ohff schildert diesen faszinierenden Menschen in derart schillernden Farben und Formen, dass man wie gebannt diesen Lebenslauf verfolgt. Er lässt ihn ebenso durch seine Schriften selbst zu Wort kommen, so dass man sich einen Eindruck von seinen literarischen Fähigkeiten machen kann. Pückler formuliert spitz, mit Witz und Spöttelei, aber spart auch nicht mit Selbstironie, was ihn überaus sympathisch wirken lässt. Auch Zeitgenossinnen und Zeitgenossen kommen zu Wort und so formt sich nach und nach das Bild eines Menschen, der hochintelligent und seiner Zeit weit voraus war.
Eine fesselnde, ausgezeichnet geschriebene Biographie, mit der man nicht nur den Menschen Hermann Pückler-Muskau kennenlernt, sondern zudem viel über die Welt am Anfang und in der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts erfährt. show less
Heinz Ohff schildert diesen faszinierenden Menschen in derart schillernden Farben und Formen, dass man wie gebannt diesen Lebenslauf verfolgt. Er lässt ihn ebenso durch seine Schriften selbst zu Wort kommen, so dass man sich einen Eindruck von seinen literarischen Fähigkeiten machen kann. Pückler formuliert spitz, mit Witz und Spöttelei, aber spart auch nicht mit Selbstironie, was ihn überaus sympathisch wirken lässt. Auch Zeitgenossinnen und Zeitgenossen kommen zu Wort und so formt sich nach und nach das Bild eines Menschen, der hochintelligent und seiner Zeit weit voraus war.
Eine fesselnde, ausgezeichnet geschriebene Biographie, mit der man nicht nur den Menschen Hermann Pückler-Muskau kennenlernt, sondern zudem viel über die Welt am Anfang und in der Mitte des 19. Jahrhunderts erfährt. show less
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