Friedrich Hebbel

The first comprehensive Hebbel biography introduces the eccentric intellectual and poet, shows the explosive nature of his themes and reinterprets the work. We have been waiting for a Hebbel biography for over a hundred years, wrote Jürgen Kaube in the "Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung" on the occasion of the anniversary year. Now finally Monika Ritzer presents the first comprehensive study of this still much played playwright and traces the life of the eccentric intellectual and poet. Monika Ritzer explores the explosive nature of his thinking and shows life and work in the spectrum of a culturally and politically dynamic era that Hebbel, contemporary of Wagner and Marx, actively shaped as an artist and journalist. The book follows the stations in life (Hamburg, Heidelberg, Munich, Copenhagen, Paris, Rome, Naples, Vienna and London) in an exciting narrative and turns with current Interp.