With the figure of the poet Wilhelm Waiblinger (1804-1830), a friend and admirer of Hölderlin, Peter Härtling devotes himself to yet another poetic comet and outsider between Romanticism and the Biedermeier period and to the theme of futile, ephemeral love.
Peter Härtling , born in Chemnitz in 1933, worked as a newspaper and magazine editor. In 1967, he became editor-in-chief of the S. Fischer publishing house. He began working as a freelance writer in 1974. Kiepenheuer & Witsch has published his complete literary works. Härtling received numerous prizes, most recently the Hessian Culture Prize in 2014 and the Elisabeth Langgässer Prize in 2015. He died on 10 July 2017.
