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HAUPTMANN, GERHART (1862— )

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HAUPTMANN, GERHART (1862— ) , See also:German dramatist, was See also:born on the 15th of See also:November 1862 at Obersalzbrunn in See also:Silesia, the son of an hotel-keeper. From the See also:village school of his native See also:place he passed to the Realschule in See also:Breslau, and was then sent to learn See also:agriculture on his See also:uncle's See also:farm at See also:Jauer. Having, however, no See also:taste for See also:country See also:life, he soon returned to Breslau and entered the See also:art school, intending to become a sculptor. He then studied at See also:Jena, and spent the greater See also:part of the years x883 and 1884 in See also:Italy. In May 1885 Hauptmann married and settled in See also:Berlin, and, devoting himself henceforth entirely to See also:literary See also:work, soon attained a See also:great reputation as one of the See also:chief representatives of the See also:modern See also:drama. In 1891 he retired to See also:Schreiberhau in Silesia. Hauptmann's first drama, Vor Sonnezzaufgang (1889) inaugurated the realistic See also:movement in modern German literature; it was followed by See also:Des Friedens-.fest (1890), Einsame Mensclzen (1891) and See also:Die See also:Weber (1892), a powerful drama depicting the rising of the Silesian weavers in 1844. Of Hauptmann's subsequent work mention may be made of the comedies Kollege Crampton (1892), Der Biberpelz (1893) and Der rote See also:Hahn (1901), a " See also:dream poem," Hannele (1893), and an See also:historical drama See also:Florian Geyer (1895). He also wrote two tragedies of Silesian See also:peasant life, Fuhrmann See also:Henschel (1898) and See also:Rose Berndt (1903), and the " dramatic See also:fairy-tales " Die versunkene Glocke (1897) and Und Pippa tanzt (1905). Several of his See also:works have been translated into See also:English. See also:Biographies of Hauptmann and See also:critical studies of his dramas have been published by A. See also:Bartels (1897); P.

Schlenther (1898); and U. C. Woerner (2nd ed., 1900). See also L. Benoist-Hanappier, Le Drame naturaliste en Allemagne (1905).

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