Editing Heinrich Heine (section)

===Controversy===
[[File:Heine Bronx 1.jpg|thumb|A statue of [[Lorelei]], the [[Lorelei Fountain]] – Heine Memorial – is located in the Bronx, New York City.]]
In the 1890s, amidst a flowering of affection for Heine leading up to the centennial of his birth, plans were made to honor Heine with a memorial. These were strongly supported by one of Heine's greatest admirers, [[Elisabeth of Bavaria]], Empress of Austria. The empress commissioned a statue from the sculptor [[Louis Hasselriis]].<ref name="Levy (2005)" /> This statue, originally located at [[Achilleion (Corfu)|Achilleion]], Empress Elisabeth's palace in Corfu, was later removed by [[Kaiser Wilhelm II]] after he acquired Achilleion in 1907,<ref name="Shanks (1996)">{{cite book |last1=Shanks |first1=Michael |title=Classical Archaeology of Greece: Experiences of the Discipline |date=1996 |publisher=Psychology Press |isbn=9780415085212 |page=169 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q8DoQ8SQPP8C&pg=PA169 |language=en}}</ref> but it eventually found a home in [[Toulon]].<ref name="Levy (2005)">Richard S. Levy, Heine Monument Controversy, in ''Antisemitism: A Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Persecution'', ABC-CLIO, 2005, p.295</ref>  This became the inspiration for [[Tony Harrison]]'s 1992 [[film-poem]], ''[[The Gaze of the Gorgon]]''.<ref name="Shanks (1996)" />

Another memorial, a sculpted fountain, was commissioned for [[Düsseldorf]]. While at first the plan met with enthusiasm, the concept was gradually bogged down in [[anti-Semitic]], [[nationalism|nationalist]], and religious criticism; by the time the fountain was finished, there was no place to put it. Through the intervention of [[German American]] activists, the memorial was ultimately transplanted into [[the Bronx]], New York City (in Philadelphia already in 1855 was printed the complete edition of Heine's works in German language).<ref>Rolf Hosfeld, ''Heinrich Heine: Die Erfindung des europäischen Intellektuellen – Biographie'' (Munich 2014), p. 153</ref> While the memorial is known in English as the [[Lorelei Fountain]], Germans refer to it as the Heinrich Heine Memorial.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/27/realestate/27scap.html "Sturm und Drang Over a Memorial to Heinrich Heine"] by [[Christopher Gray (architectural historian)|Christopher Gray]], ''[[The New York Times]]'', 27 May 2007.</ref> Also, after years of controversy,<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1982/03/31/world/west-gemran-universities-what-to-call-them.html "West German Universities: What to Call Them?"] by [[John Vinocur]], ''[[The New York Times]]'', 31 March 1982</ref> the University of Düsseldorf was named [[Heinrich Heine University]]. Today the city honours its poet with a boulevard (Heinrich-Heine-Allee) and a modern monument.

In Israel, the attitude to Heine has long been the subject of debate between [[secular]]ists, who number him among the most prominent figures of [[Jewish history]], and the religious who consider his conversion to Christianity to be an unforgivable act of betrayal. Due to such debates, the city of Tel Aviv delayed naming a street for Heine, and the street finally chosen to bear his name is located in a rather desolate industrial zone rather than in the vicinity of [[Tel Aviv University]], suggested by some public figures as the appropriate location.{{citation needed|date=December 2020}}

''Ha-‘Ir'' (''העיר'' – ''The City'', a [[Left-wing politics|left]]-leaning Tel Aviv magazine) sarcastically suggested that "The Exiling of Heine Street" symbolically re-enacted the course of Heine's own life. Since then, a street in the Yemin Moshe neighborhood of Jerusalem<ref>[http://www.HaGalil.com/postcards/jerusalem.htm Jewish Postcards from... haGalil onLine.] {{webarchive|url=https://archive.today/20140804212936/http://www.hagalil.com/postcards/jerusalem.htm |date=4 August 2014 }}</ref> and, in Haifa, a street with a beautiful square and a community center have been named after Heine. A Heine Appreciation Society is active in Israel, led by prominent political figures from both the left and [[political right|right]] camps.{{citation needed|date=December 2020}} His quote about burning books is prominently displayed in the [[Yad Vashem]] [[Holocaust]] museum in Jerusalem. It is also displayed in the [[United States Holocaust Memorial Museum]] and in the pavement in Frankfurt am Main.

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File:HeineMonument.jpg|Heine monument in Düsseldorf
File:Heine-Denkmal Frankfurt.JPG|Heine monument in Frankfurt, the only pre-1945 one in Germany
File:Heinrich Heine Brocken 2017.jpg|Monument on Mount [[Brocken]], Germany
File:Waldemar Grzimek - Heinrich-Heine-Denkmal IIb 01.jpg|Heine monument in Berlin
File:Heinrich Heine grave.JPG|Heine's bust on his grave in Montmartre, Paris
File:Heines grab, Gedicht, fot I Nowicka.jpg|The poem ''Where?'' (Wo?) on Heine's grave
File:Heine, der Wandermüde2.jpg|Grave and poem "Wo?"
File:DBP 1956 229 Heinrich Heine.jpg|A 1956 German stamp commemorating the 100th anniversary of Heine's death
File:Stamp of USSR 1947.jpg|A 1956 Soviet stamp commemorating the 100th anniversary of Heine's death
File:Plaque at Bebelplatz.jpg|Plaque at the Nazi book burning memorial on Bebelplatz in Berlin, Germany, with a quote from Heine's play ''Almansor''
File:Goarshausen Heinrich Heine bust2.jpg|Bust of Heinrich Heine, [[Sankt Goarshausen]] at the foot of the Lorelei rock
File:HeineHeinrich.jpg|Heine statue in [[Toulon]]; commissioned by [[Elisabeth of Bavaria]] for [[Achilleion (Corfu)|Achilleion]], it was removed by [[Wilhelm II]]
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