Heinrich Kruse - Radierung von Johann Lindner, 1890

Heinrich Kruse (1815-1902) was a German dramatist and publicist.

Biography

He was born at

Stralsund Stralsund (; Swedish: ''Strålsund''), officially the Hanseatic City of Stralsund (German: ''Hansestadt Stralsund''), is the fifth-largest city in the northeastern German federal state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania after Rostock, Schwerin, Neub ...

, and studied philology at the universities of

Bonn The federal city of Bonn ( lat, Bonna) is a city on the banks of the Rhine in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, with a population of over 300,000. About south-southeast of Cologne, Bonn is in the southernmost part of the Rhine-Ruhr r ...

and

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...

. In 1847 he took up journalism, and in 1855 he became chief editor of the ''Kölnische Zeitung''. He devoted himself, however, largely to writing plays.

Works

Of his dramas the following are considered of great merit: * ''Die Gräfin'', a tragedy (“The Countess,” 1868) This play was awarded a prize by the Berliner Schiller Commission. * ''Brutus'' (1874–82) * ''Das Mädchen von Byzanz'' (“The maid from Byzantium,” 1877-85) * ''Der Verbannte'' (“The banished one,” 1879-81) He also wrote

sea stories Nautical fiction, frequently also naval fiction, sea fiction, naval adventure fiction or maritime fiction, is a genre of literature with a setting on or near the sea, that focuses on the human relationship to the sea and sea voyages and highligh ...

and poems.

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References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kruse, Heinrich 1815 births 1902 deaths German editors University of Bonn alumni Humboldt University of Berlin alumni German male dramatists and playwrights 19th-century German dramatists and playwrights 19th-century German male writers People from Stralsund