Heinrich Heine - Works

Works

A list of Heine's major publications in German. All dates are taken from Jeffrey L. Sammons: Heinrich Heine: A Modern Biography (Princeton University Press, 1979).

• 1820 (August): Die Romantik ("Romanticism", short critical essay)
• 1821 (20 December ): Gedichte ("Poems")
• 1822 (February to July): Briefe aus Berlin ("Letters from Berlin")
• 1823 (January): Über Polen ("On Poland", prose essay)
• 1823 (April): Tragödien nebst einem lyrischen Intermezzo ("Tragedies with a Lyrical Intermezzo") includes:
  • Almansor (play, written 1821-1822)
  • William Ratcliff (play, written January 1822)
  • Lyrisches Intermezzo (cycle of poems)
• 1826 (May): Reisebilder. Erster Teil ("Travel Pictures I"), contains:
  • Die Harzreise ("The Harz Journey", prose travel work)
  • Die Heimkehr ("The Homecoming", poems)
  • Die Nordsee. Erste Abteilung ("North Sea I", cycle of poems)
• 1827 (April): Reisebilder. Zweiter Teil ("Travel Pictures II"), contains:
  • Die Nordsee. Zweite Abteilung ("The North Sea II", cycle of poems)
  • Die Nordsee. Dritte Abteilung ("The North Sea III", prose essay)
  • Ideen: das Buch le Grand ("Ideas: The Book of Le Grand")
  • Briefe aus Berlin ("Letters from Berlin", a much shortened and revised version of the 1822 work)
• 1827 (October): Buch der Lieder ("Book of Songs"); collection of poems containing the following sections:
  • Junge Leiden ("Youthful Sorrows")
  • Die Heimkehr ("The Homecoming", originally published 1826)
  • Lyrisches Intermezzo" ("Lyrical Intermezzo", originally published 1823)
  • "Aus der Harzreise" (poems from Die Harzreise, originally published 1826)
  • Die Nordsee ("The North Sea: Cycles I and II", originally published 1826/1827)
• 1829 (December): Reisebilder. Dritter Teil ("Travel Pictures III"), contains:
  • Die Reise von München nach Genua ("Journey from Munich to Genoa", prose travel work)
  • Die Bäder von Lucca ("The Baths of Lucca", prose travel work)
  • Anno 1829
• 1831 (January): Nachträge zu den Reisebildern ("Supplements to the Travel Pictures"), the second edition of 1833 was retitled as Reisebilder. Vierter Teil ("Travel Pictures IV"), contains:
  • Die Stadt Lucca ("The Town of Lucca", prose travel work)
  • Englische Fragmente ("English Fragments", travel writings)
• 1831 (April): Zu "Kahldorf über den Adel" (introduction to the book "Kahldorf on the Nobility", uncensored version not published until 1890)
• 1833: Französische Zustände ("Conditions in France", collected journalism)
• 1833 (December): Der Salon. Erster Teil ("The Salon I"), contains:
  • Französische Maler ("French Painters", criticism)
  • Aus den Memoiren des Herren von Schnabelewopski ("From the Memoirs of Herr Schnabelewopski", unfinished novel)
• 1835 (January): Der Salon. Zweiter Teil ("The Salon II"), contains:
  • Zur Geschichte der Religion und Philosophie in Deutschland ("On the History of Religion and Philosophy in Germany")
  • Neuer Frühling ("New Spring", cycle of poems)
• 1835 (November): Die romantische Schule ("The Romantic School", criticism)
• 1837 (July): Der Salon. Dritter Teil ("The Salon III"), contains:
  • Florentinische Nächte ("Florentine Nights", unfinished novel)
  • Elementargeister ("Elemental Spirits", essay on folklore)
• 1837 (July): Über den Denunzianten. Eine Vorrede zum dritten Teil des Salons. ("On the Denouncer. A Preface to Salon III", pamphlet)
• 1837 (November): Einleitung zum "Don Quixote" ("Introduction to Don Quixote", preface to a new German translation of Don Quixote)
• 1838 (November): Der Schwabenspiegel ("The Mirror of Swabia", prose work attacking poets of the Swabian School)
• 1838 (October): Shakespeares Mädchen und Frauen ("Shakespeare's Girls and Women", essays on the female characters Shakespeare's tragedies and histories)
• 1839: Anno 1839
• 1840 (August): Ludwig Börne. Eine Denkschrift ("Ludwig Börne: A Memorial", long prose work about the writer Ludwig Börne)
• 1840 (November): Der Salon. Vierter Teil ("The Salon IV"), contains:
  • Der Rabbi von Bacherach ("The Rabbi of Bacharach", unfinished historical novel)
  • Über die französische Bühne ("On the French Stage", prose criticism)
• 1844 (September): Neue Gedichte ("New Poems"); contains the following sections:
  • Neuer Frühling ("New Spring", originally published in 1834)
  • Verschiedene ("Sundry Women")
  • Romanzen ("Ballads")
  • Zur Ollea ("Olio")
  • Zeitgedichte ("Poems for the Times")
  • it also includes Deutschland: Ein Wintermärchen ("Germany: A Winter's Tale", long poem)
• 1847 (January): Atta Troll: Ein Sommernachtstraum ("Atta Troll: A Midsummer Night's Dream", long poem, written 1841-46)
• 1851 (September): Romanzero; collection of poems divided into three books:
  • Erstes Buch: Historien ("First Book: Histories")
  • Zweites Buch: Lamentationen ("Second Book: Lamentations")
  • Drittes Buch: Hebräische Melodien ("Third Book: Hebrew Melodies")
• 1851 (October): Der Doktor Faust. Tanzpoem ("Doctor Faust. Dance Poem", ballet libretto, written 1846)
• 1854 (October): Vermischte Schriften ("Miscellaneous Writings") in three volumes, contains:
  • Volume One:
    • Geständnisse ("Confessions", autobiographical work)
    • Die Götter im Exil ("The Gods in Exile", prose essay)
    • Die Göttin Diana ("The Goddess Diana", ballet scenario, written 1846)
    • Ludwig Marcus: Denkworte ("Ludwig Marcus: Recollections", prose essay)
    • Gedichte. 1853 und 1854 ("Poems. 1854 and 1854")
  • Volume Two:
    • Lutezia. Erster Teil ("Lutetia I", collected journalism about France)
  • Volume Three:
    • Lutezia. Zweiter Teil ("Lutetia II", collected journalism about France)