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Weltweite Kleist-Lesung

21 November 2012

To celebrate the works of Heinrich von Kleist and to mark the 200th anniversary of his death, the Cambridge Department of German and Dutch joined with 146 other institutions worldwide and presented a programme of readings to which all were invited. The global event was instigated by the Heinrich-von-Kleist-Gesellschaft who mapped the events on their website and tracked them as they took place.

Simone Kügeler reads an extract from Die Marquise von O...	Andrew Webber reading an 'Anekdote'.	Roger Paulin reads Kleist's'Empfindungen vor Friedrichs Seelandschaft'.
Martin Ruehl introduces his reading fromMichael Kohlhaas.	Lucia Ruprecht, Martin Ruehl, Johannes Kaminski and Simone Kügeler enact a scene from Penthesilea.	Penthesilea
Michael Minden reading'Von der Überlegung: eine Paradoxe'.	John Guthrie and David Midgley bring the proceedings to a close...	...performing a scene from Amphitryon.