Judith Jakob & Joachim Jezewski

Heinrich Heine was born Harry Heine in Düsseldorf in 1797 and died in exile in Paris in 1856. He is regarded as the "last poet of Romanticism" and at the same time as its overcomer. He made everyday language lyrical, elevated the feuilleton and the travelogue to an art form and lent the German language a previously unknown, elegant lightness. As a politically committed journalist, essayist, satirist and polemicist, he was both admired and feared.

In monarchist Germany, his works were banned from 1835; a hundred years later, the Nazis publicly burned "the Jewish pig Heine". The poem about the "Loreley" was only allowed to be printed and sung with the note "Poet unknown".

Judith Jakob and Joachim Jezewski follow in Heine's footsteps, with the help of his poems, letters and writings, from his childhood in Düsseldorf to his exile in Paris, where Heine finally died far from his beloved homeland after a long illness.