For the anniversary year 2027 on the occasion of Kleist’s 250th birthday, the Kleist-Museum is planning a new permanent exhibition on the life and work of Heinrich von Kleist. What approaches to his work can we find today? How to convey the person of Heinrich von Kleist and his world of experience in our present day? And what role does the specificity of literature play as an exhibition object? Based on the collection and with reference to current research discourses, we address these and other questions in preparation for the permanent exhibition.

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The Kleist-Museum acquired 26 letters written by Karl von Zenge (1777–1802) to his family in Frankfurt an der Oder between March 1799 and December 1801. Karl von Zenge was the oldest brother of Kleist’s fiancée Wilhelmine von Zenge and shared an apartment with Kleist from August 1800 to April 1801. A digital edition of all letters is planned.

The project involves successive research into the history of the Kleist-Museum and its predecessor institutions, the Kleist Society (1920–1945) and the Heinrich von Kleist Society (since 1960). The first part of the research focuses on the critical processing of the estate of Georg Minde-Pouet (1871–1950), the long-time chairman of the first Kleist Society.