Michael Kohlhaas

first published 1810

Michael Kohlhaas is a novella by the German author Heinrich von Kleist, based on a 16th-century story of Hans Kohlhase. Kleist published fragments of the work in volume 6 of his literary journal Phöbus in June 1808. The complete work was published in the first volume of Kleist's Erzählungen (novellas) in 1810. Its plot depicts the wrongs done to horse trader Michael Kohlhaas by a minor aristocrat.

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Original language:

German

Year page:

1810