The volume assembles the papers held at a symposium organised by the Heinrich Heine Institute (DA1/4sseldorf), 20-22 October 1992, in cooperation with the Equipe Transferts Culturels of the CNRS (Paris) and the Istituto Storico Italo-Germanico (Trent). They deal with the processes of cross-frontier cultural and scientific transfer from the 18th to the 20th century (with special emphasis on the 19th century). The scope of the treatment ranges from individual cases to broader overviews. The approach is not only international but also interdisciplinary, ranging from literature to historiography and the history of scientific institutions and branches of science.

Heine und Schumann im Wechselspiel von Literatur und Musik. Ausgehend von den vielen Beruhrungspunkten im Schaffen und Wirken der beiden Romantiker, haben Experten Beziehungen zwischen Musik, Bild und Literatur, Kunst- und Kulturkritik neu untersucht und eine Fulle uberraschender Erkenntnisse formuliert.