Novalis’s Heinrich von Ofterdingen

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Consumed by thoughts of a blue flower, Heinrich leaves his cold homeland and travels south until he meets Mathilde, who opens his eyes to the world’s mysteries. Then a tragic event reveals the secret power of poetry…

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Learn more about Novalis, the pen name of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg (2 May 1772 – 25 March 1801).

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Learn more about Heinrich von Ofterdingen, the posthumous novel written by Novalis.

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Welcome to Digital Ofterdingen, an online companion to Novalis’s 'Heinrich von Ofterdingen': A New Translation and Critical Study by Owen Ware (Cambridge University Press, 2026).

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