page_title: Michael Kohlhaas
section_title: Influence
hierarchical_section_title: Michael Kohlhaas / Influence
caption_attribution_description: Printעברית: הדפס
context_page_description: Michael Kohlhaas is a novella by the German author Heinrich von Kleist, based on a 16th-century story of Hans Kohlhase. Kleist published fragments of the work in volume 6 of his literary journal Phöbus in June 1808. The complete work was published in the first volume of Kleist's Erzählungen in 1810.
  Both the theme and the style are surprisingly modern. They resonated with other authors more than a century after they were written.
context_section_description: Franz Kafka devoted one of only two public appearances in his whole life to reading passages from Michael Kohlhaas. Kafka said that he "could not even think of" this work "without being moved to tears and enthusiasm." 
  The story of Michael Kohlhaas had an influence on E. L. Doctorow's 1975 novel Ragtime, which uses similar plot elements and has a protagonist named "Coalhouse Walker". Doctorow himself called his book "a quite deliberate hommage"  [sic] to Kleist's story. 
  J. M. Coetzee's 1983 novel Life & Times of Michael K is influenced by this novel.
  The opening sentence of the 1985 novel Das Parfum by German writer Patrick Süskind is an homage to the opening sentence of Michael Kohlhaas.
  The theatrical work Kohlhaas (1990) by Italian playwright and actor Marco Baliani is a direct adaptation of Kleist's book. In 2017 the italian play has been translated in Spanish by Beatriz Castellary and interpreted by Riccardo Rigamonti.
  The 1969 film Michael Kohlhaas – der Rebell by Volker Schlöndorff and the 2013 film Michael Kohlhaas by Arnaud des Pallières were direct adaptations of Kleist's story. 
  The 1999 film The Jack Bull by John Badham was loosely based on this book which was also a major source of inspiration for Andrey Zvyagintsev's 2014 film Leviathan.
caption: "Disbands His Gang", From "Woodcuts for Heinrich von Kleist’s Michael Kohlhaas" (1953\2003) by Jacob Pins
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