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Gerhart Hauptmann


Born
in Obersalzbrunn (then Germany), Poland
November 15, 1862

Died
June 06, 1946

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Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann was a German dramatist and novelist. He is counted among the most important promoters of literary naturalism, though he integrated other styles into his work as well. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1912.

Life Hauptmann's first drama, Before Dawn (1889) inaugurated the naturalistic movement in modern German literature. It was followed by The Reconciliation (1890), Lonely People (1891) and The Weavers (1892), a powerful drama depicting the rising of the Silesian weavers in 1844 for which he is best known outside of Germany.
Hauptmann's subsequent work includes the comedies Colleague Crampton (1892), The Beaver Coat (1893), and The Conflagration (1901), the symbolist dream play The Assumption of Hann
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Bahnwärter Thiel

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Vor Sonnenaufgang

3.12 avg rating — 1,201 ratings — published 1889 — 72 editions
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The Weavers

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Die Ratten. Berliner Tragik...

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Der Biberpelz

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Atlantis

3.31 avg rating — 104 ratings — published 1912 — 117 editions
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Der Ketzer Von Soana

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Fasching / Der Apostel.

3.15 avg rating — 67 ratings — published 1986 — 2 editions
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Einsame Menschen.

3.81 avg rating — 52 ratings — published 1891 — 106 editions
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“Writing poetry consists in letting the Word be heard behind words.”
Gerhart Hauptmann

“Wie soll man in einer Welt leben in der einem alles und alles gleichgültig oder zum Ekel ist?”
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“Einem erschlossenen Acker gleichen die Seelen der Menschen an Feiertagen. (Aus: der Apostel 1890)”
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