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| | Hauptmann, Gerhart |
 | | Gerhart Hauptmann, etching by Hermann Struck, 1904; in the Schiller-Nationalmuseum, Marbach, Ger. |
 | | Having married the well-to-do Marie Thienemann in 1885, Hauptmann settled down in Erkner, a rural suburb of Berlin, dabbling in political, theological, and literary studies and associating with a group of scientists, philosophers, and avant-garde writers who were interested in naturalist and socialist ideas. |
 | | Hauptmann's longtime estrangement from his wife resulted in their divorce in 1904, and in the same year he married an actress and violinist, Margarete Marschalk, with whom he had moved in 1901 to a house in Agnetendorf in Silesia. |
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