Heinrich-Heine-Institut
Literary museum and archive in patrician houses, keeping a poet's manuscripts, letters and death mask.
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This guide to the Heinrich-Heine-Institut in Düsseldorf starts with a puzzle about the city's most famous poet: when, exactly, was he born? It moves from a Jewish merchant's son on Bolkerstrasse, in a small town under French rule, to the man who later changed his name, and to the patrician houses on Bilker Strasse that now keep his papers. Best heard on the pavement outside the museum's front door.
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