High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Prince of Homburg (German: Der Prinz von Homburg, Prinz Friedrich von Homburg, or in full Prinz Friedrich von Homburg oder die Schlacht bei Fehrbellin) is a play by Heinrich von Kleist written in 1809-10, but not performed until 1821, after the author`s death. A performance during his lifetime was not possible because Princess Marianne of Prussia (wife of Prince William of Prussia), by birth a member of the Hesse-Homburg family, to whom Kleist had given sight of the work with a dedication, felt her family honour insulted by it.