Günther Stark

Heine's Way to Paris Günther Stark

"Heine's Way To Paris - They who perish when they love" is (after the second "The Joys and Sorrows of Young Harry") the - independently readable - third part of the, essentially fictive, biography of one of the greatest and most enigmatic love poets of Germany. It describes his studies in Bonn, Göttingen, Berlin, and his move to Paris. His family members Betty, Samson, Salomon, Molly appear, next to it his contemporaries Immermann, Grabbe, Platen, von Breza, Goethe, Moser, Fichte, Schelling, Görres, Hegel, Varnhagen, Rahel, Ludwig Robert, Börne, Maßmann. But above all his youthful loves and love affairs: Kitty, Vanessa, Friederike, Malwine, Clarisse, Therese, Waltraud, Lore, Monique, Beatrice, Chloé Maurel ... but no less than the women of his erotic imagination: Schön-Betty, Maria McGregor, the Lorelei, Messalina, Briseis, Francesca, Dina, Judith, Marianne ... And they appear without a figleaf.