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Heinrich Heine Memorial on the Brocken

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Heinrich Heine Memorial on the Brocken

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Heinrich Heine Memorial on the Brocken

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    1. View of Torfhaus – Brocken Railway on the Goetheweg loop from Torfhaus

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    July 1, 2023

    Christian Johann Heinrich Heine (born December 13, 1797 as Harry Heine in Düsseldorf, Duchy of Berg; † February 17, 1856 in Paris) was one of the most important German poets, writers and journalists of the 19th century.

    Heinrich Heine is considered one of the last representatives and at the same time an overcomer of romanticism. He made everyday language capable of poetry, elevated the feature articles and travelogues to art forms and gave German literature a previously unknown, elegant lightness. To date, hardly any other German-language poet's works have been translated and set to music so frequently. As a critical, politically committed journalist, essayist, satirist and polemicist, Heine was both admired and feared. Banned from publishing by the German Confederation, he spent the second half of his life in exile in Paris. Anti-Semites and nationalists attacked Heine even after his death because of his Jewish origins and his political stance. The role of an outsider shaped his life, his work and its reception history.

    Source: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Heine

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      It is not far from the cloud house and thus in the immediate vicinity of the Goethe memorial stone. A larger-than-life bronze portrait of the poet as well as his signature and the year of his birth and death were attached to the mighty boulder. The Heine monument can also be seen as the end point of the Heinrich Heine hiking trail that leads up from Ilsenburg to the Brocken.

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        April 10, 2022

        The "well-known" quatrain about the Brocken, which is said to have come from Heinrich Heine, is doubted by numerous literary experts. This style of writing is not supposed to correspond to Heinrich Heine's.

        If Heine had really been so disappointed by his ascent to the Brocken in 1824... Would he be honored with a huge monument at this very spot?

        See also famous Brocken errors:

        torfhaus-harzresort.de/urlaub-im-harz/brockenblick-hotel-am-brocken/brockenirrtuemer

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          Location: Schierke, Landkreis Harz, Harz Mountains, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany

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