The Waves of Life and Love: They who perish when they love

As the fifth volume of the - mostly fictional - heptalogic biography of Heinrich Heine, "The Waves of Life and Love - They who perish when they love" describes his marriage to Crescence Mirat, called Mathilde, in voluntary exile in Paris - with his vacation trips and visits to Germany, as well as his illness in the mattress tomb under the care of the doctors Gruby and Wertheim. In addition to Mathilde and her parrots, her companion Pauline appears, his contemporaries Börne and Madame Wohl, Hans Christian Andersen, his friends Friedland and Seeliger, Henri Julia, Honeck, Ruge, Karl and Jenny Marx, Moritz, Wallner, Alfred Meissner, Adolf Stahr, Gérard de Nerval, Alexandre and Agathina Weill, the Principessa Cristina Belgiojoso, Lola Montez, Margaretha Geertruida Zelle Mata Hari etc. In addition, his old and new loves: Molly, Elizabeth, Frisette, Eugenie, Mariette ... No less, but also the characters of his erotic fantasy: Hamlet and Horatio, the girls and women in Shakespeare: Cleopatra, Cressida, Tamora, Margaretha, Lady Anna, Jessica, Porzia, Ophelia; Irene, Leda, Tillie, the sultan's daughter ... Eros is still the antagonist of love.