Hölderlin

American  

[hœl-duhr-leen] / ˈhœl dərˌlin /

noun

1. Johann Christian Friedrich 1770–1843, German poet.

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Hölderlin British  

/ ˈhœldərliːn /

noun

1. Friedrich (ˈfriːdrɪç). 1770–1843, German lyric poet, whose works include the poems Menon's Lament for Diotima and Bread and Wine and the novel Hyperion (1797–99)

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Hölderlin

He left a biography of Hölderlin on his desk with this sentence underlined: “Sometimes this genius goes dark and sinks down into the bitter well of his heart.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026

Henze connected the symphony to the life of Friedrich Hölderlin, a poet who had a mental breakdown in Tübingen, living his last 36 years in a tower room overlooking the Neckar river.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 25, 2016

This piece is an hourlong song cycle for tenor, guitar and eight other instruments that alternates vocal settings of six feverish, strangely haunting German poems by Friedrich Hölderlin with seven instrumental interludes.

From New York Times ● Sep. 13, 2015

Indeed, he loved poetry, sending me reams of Hölderlin over e-mail during the days we were apart.

From New York Times ● Sep. 7, 2012

With Hölderlin it was the rude interruption from without of his quiet and happy intercourse with Susette, which embittered his soul.

From Types of Weltschmerz in German Poetry by Braun, Wilhelm Alfred