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| | Dietrich Eckart |
 | | He moved to Berlin in 1899, where he wrote a number of plays, often with autobiographical traits; however, despite becoming the protegé of Graf Georg von Hülsen-Haeseler, the artistic director of the royal theatres, he never was successful as a playwright, a failure for which he blamed society. |
 | | Later on, he developed an ideology of a “genius higher human,” based on earlier writings by Lanz von Liebenfels; he saw himself in the tradition of Arthur Schopenhauer and Angelus Silesius, and also became fascinated by Mayan beliefs, but never had much sympathy for the scientific method. |
 | | Moving back to Munich, Eckart joined the Rudolf von Sebottendorff's right-wing Thule Society in 1913 and became politically active; in 1915, he also wrote the nationalist play "Heinrich der Hohenstaufe" ("Heinrich of the High Baptism"), in which he postulated a claim to world leadership for the German people. |
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