A stranger, an misunderstood and misjudged individual, Heinrich von Kleist moved through life. Full of abysses and secrets, disharmonies and incomprehensibilities, he appeared problematic and pathological to those around him, and to posterity as well. What he was and what he wanted could not be categorized into the usual framework. Strange, headstrong, stubborn, frightening, dark, a bit twisted, even bordering on madness, his contemporaries described him. People saw the shell but could not penetrate to the core; the center from which these visions and manifestations radiated remained shrouded in darkness. The Publishing House of Sciences publishes historical literature by both well-known and unknown scientific authors. This makes works that have long been out of print accessible again to interested readers. This book about Heinrich von Kleist is an unchanged, high-quality edition.