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  Gerhart Hauptmann
Hauptmann rejected his early romantic ideals and became convinced that life should be depicted as it is. From the intellectual currents of his day he adopted a belief in scientific causality and materialism.
Hauptmann's early plays reflect the influence of Henrik Ibsen but the production of DIE WEBER, a dramatization of the Silesian weavers' revolt of 1844, brought him fame as the leading playwright of his generation.
Hauptmann did not only want to give realistic details, but he paid a great deal of attention to historical accuracy, and studied various dialects.
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  Gerhart Hauptmann - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gerhart Hauptmann (November 15, 1862 - June 6, 1946), German dramatist, was born on at Obersalzbrunn, Germany (now Szczawno Drój, Poland) in Silesia, the son of a hotel-keeper.
In May 1885 Hauptmann married and settled in Berlin, and, devoting himself henceforth entirely to literary work, soon attained a great reputation as one of the chief representatives of the modern drama.
Hauptmann's first drama, Vor Sonnenaufgang (1889) inaugurated the realistic movement in modern German literature; it was followed by Des Friedensfest (1890), Einsame Menschen (1891) and Die Weber (1892), a powerful drama depicting the rising of the Silesian weavers in 1844.
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 Gerhart Hauptmann
Gerhart Hauptmann (November 15, 1862 - June 6, 1946), German dramatist, was born on at Obersalzbrunn in Silesia, the son of an hotel-keeper.
In May 1885 Hauptmann married and settled in Berlin, anti, devoting himself henceforth entirely to literary work, soon attained a great reputation as one of the chief representatives of the modern drama.
Of Hauptmann's subsequent work mention may be magic of the comedies Kollege Crampton (1892), Den Biberpelz (1893) and Den rote Hahn (1901), a "dream poem," Hannele (1893), and an historical drama Florian Geyer (1895).
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 Gerhart Hauptmann
GERHART HAUPTMANN'S first play, BEFORE SUNRISE, was produced in 1889 at the German Free Theater, and was acknowledged as the beginning of an important new literary movement for Germany just as Strindberg's MASTER OLAF had been recognized as the beginning of Swedish literary independence.
Hauptmann's dramatic genius is incontestable, but he has never seemed able to settle on any one form as best suited to express his dramatic intentions.
Gerhart Hauptmann's father was a Silesian innkeeper and the boy was originally intended for a farmer.
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 Gerhart Hauptmann - Wikipedia
Hauptmann zog mit ihr nach Berlin, wo er mit vielen Künstlern der Moderne in Kontakt kam, u.a.
Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Behl: Wege zu Gerhart Hauptmann.
Carl Friedrich Wilhelm Behl: Zwiesprache mit Gerhart Hauptmann.
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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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