READING HEINRICH HEINE

280 Notes to pages 159–165
18 DZ 16; Börne, Sämtliche Schriften,V,11.
19 Sammons recognizes different impulses but insists that they are in conflict as
‘two different attitudes, one political and democratic, the other aesthetic and
aristocratic’ (The Elusive Poet,p.250).
20 See Helmut Koopmann’s commentary, DHA 11, 327.
21 Rose, The Broken Middle,p.165.Myuse of the term ‘authorship’ is derived in
particular from chapter 5, ‘Love and the State’.
22 See Werner, ‘Frères d’armes ou frères ennemis?’, p. 254.
23 HSA XXI, 28, cited by Wolfgang Hädecke, Heinrich Heine, eine Biographie
(Munich: Hanser, 1985), p. 283.
24 Börne, Sämtliche Schriften,vol. II, p. 898
25 Inge Rippmann points out that in Shakespeares Mädchen und Frauen Heine
attacks the same combination of ‘ascetic religious zeal and republican fanaticism’
(B 4, 176) inEnglish Puritanism. See Rippmann, ‘Heines Denkschrift
über Börne’, p. 49.
26 See Hädecke, Heinrich Heine,p.276;Sammons, AModern Biography, p.190.
27 The passage is so construed by Briegleb, B 4, 774n.
28 HSA XXIV, 105; cf. XXIVK, 90 ad loc.
29 See Campe’s letters of 13 March 1832; 16 March, 25 June, 3 December 1833 (HSA
XXIV, 114–18, 159, 178–83, 228–31); and Heine’s letters to Campe of 16 January
1834; 20 December 1836 (HSA XXI, 74, 172–3) –‘When people named your
most recent author to me, I covered my face’ – though it is not certain that
Campe was right in reading this as a reference to Börne; 23 January 1837 (HSA
XXI, 174–5).
30 Sammons was one of the first to evaluate this aspect of the Denkschrift. Fora
summary see AModern Biography,pp.238–9.
31 My account of Rahel Levin’s ‘language’ owes a great deal to Norbert Altenhofer’s
study in the posthumous collection named after it, Die verlorene Augensprache,
pp. 58–75: particularly pp. 58–60. Altenhofer’s essay concentrates on an exposition
of Ideen. Das Buch Le Grand.
32 For afull discussion of the paradoxes of political stylistics in the early part of
the nineteenth century see Briegleb on ‘jenes...Lächeln’, B 4, 765–6.
33 Letter to Fouqué of26 July 1809, see Rahel Varnhagen, Im Umgang mit
ihren Freunden (Briefe 1793–1833), ed. Friedhelm Kemp (Munich: Kösel, 1967),
pp. 295–7. Gillian Rose cites this extraordinary letter in The Broken Middle,
p. 192.
34 See Briegleb, Opfer Heine?,pp.157–78 on the ‘Diskurs der Ausgrenzung’.
35 Rose, The Broken Middle,pp.187–8.
36 ‘Geheimnis, Verschweigen, Zensurrücksicht und Selbstzensur, Lächeln, Augensprache
usw.’, B 4, 948; compare 753–4.
37 Compare Rose: ‘Remaining within the agon of authorship they [Rahel Varnhagen,
Rosa Luxemburg, Hannah Arendt] cultivate aporetic universalism, restless
affirmation and undermining of political form and political action, which
never loses sight of the continuing mutual corruption of the state and civil
society ...’(The Broken Middle,p.155).