Heinrich Heine:

Germany. A Winter Tale /

Deutschland. Ein Wintermärchen

(Bilingual Edition)

Satirical verse epic, in German and English (parallel edition).
136 pages.

1. Book version: ISBN 9781595690715 or PayPal. 5.5 x 8.5 in (21,5 cm x 14 cm)

2. eBook version: Google Play

Since 1831 Heine had been living in exile in France; because of his critical works, he no longer felt safe from the German censors and police. In 1835 the German Bundestag passed a decree banning his writings.

In late 1843 Heine went back to Germany for a few weeks to visit his mother and his publisher, Julius Campe, in Hamburg. It was on his return journey that the first draft of Germany. A Winter Tale took shape. The verse epic appeared in 1844, published by Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg; and before the year was out, the book was banned in Prussia and the stock confiscated. In December 1844 King Friedrich Wilhelm IV of Prussia issued a warrant for Heinrich Heine's arrest. Before the book could be published elsewhere in Germany, outside Prussia, Heine had to shorten and rewrite it.

Our historical bilingual edition presents the German text in a version dating from 1887 and a translation by Edgar Alfred Bowring from the same year.

Heine's 1844 Preface was retranslated by Annette Bridges for our 2007 edition.