Abstract
Heine was not a novelist, but he nevertheless appears to be the “great critical realist” (G. Lukács) of the 1820s-1850s in German-language literature, because of his critique of the “art period” (“Kunstperiode”). The poet and novelist Georg Weerth (1822-1856), who was born two hundred years ago and died in the same year as Heine, explicitly considered him to be his source of inspiration, both for his poetry and for Schnapphahnski, his only completed novel. It was published in 1848-1849 in the feuilleton of the Neue Rheinische Zeitung edited by his friends Marx and Engels, and it corresponded to the political line they had laid down in their Manifesto of the Communist Party.
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