World Theater as a Tragic Mode Heinrich Heine's Epoch Experience

There is something miraculous about the reception of Heinrich Heine in Germany: One might call him the best-known unknown writer. Critics from Heinrich von Treitschke to Theodor W. Adorno accused him of ruining German poetic language by accommodating his style to journalism. Yet others, like Friedrich Nietzsche and Hannah Arendt saw him as an early "post-modernist", insofar as he was insulting deep-rooted traditions of German idealism. His innovative poetry was carnivalesque, leading to a multi-perspective tragicomic worldview without inner reason or center, always on the edge of an open and unfinished present. Deeply influenced by Hegel, he never became an orthodox Hegelian, partly because of his heterodox Spinozism. Influencing the " revolutionary break" in 19th century worldviews, he developed an elucidated view on the tragicomic dialectics of European enlightenment, the modern subject and the age of revolutions.