Die Hermannsschlacht (literally The Battle of Hermann) is a 1808 drama in five acts by German author Heinrich von Kleist.

Die Hermannsschlacht was written in 1808,[1] after the Prussian defeat by Napoleon I in the War of the Fourth Coalition, and was intended to be read in this context.

Hermann's wife Thusnelda is courted by the Roman legate Ventidius, who secretly cuts off a lock of her blond hair.

The play Hermannsschlacht premiered finally in 1839, in an edited version of Feodor Wehl in Breslau (modern day Wroclaw), but without much success.

Last with the Berlin performance in 1912, for the centennial anniversary of the liberation wars, attended the premiere of the imperial family, which was Hermann battle as a patriotic drama.

Therefore, the piece after 1945 was only rarely performed, only the Harz mountain valley theater in the GDR, there were 1957 with a production of political bias against the United States and its Western allies.