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Gerhart Hauptmann
German author (1862–1946)
Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann (German:[ˈɡeːɐ̯.haʁtˈhaʊ̯ptˌman]ⓘ; 15 November 1862 – 6 June 1946) was a German dramatist and novelist.[1] 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
[edit]Childhood and youth
[edit]Gerhart Hauptmann was born in 1862 in Obersalzbrunn, now known as Szczawno-Zdrój, in Lower Silesia (then a part of the Kingdom of Prussia, now a part of Poland). His parents were Robert and Marie Hauptmann, who ran a hotel in the area. As a youth, Hauptmann had a reputation of being loose with the truth. His elder brother was Carl Hauptmann.
Beginning in 1868, he attended the village school and then, in 1874, the Realschule in Breslau for which he had only barely passed the qualifying exam. Hauptmann had difficulties adjusting himself to his new surround
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Prominent German dramatist of the early 20th century. Gerhart Hauptmann won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1912. His naturalistic plays are still frequently performed. Hauptmann's best-known works include The Weavers (1893), a humanist drama of a rebellion against the mechanisms of the Industrial Revolution, and Hannele (1884), about the conflict between reality and fantasy.
"It is a sultry day towards the end of May. The clock is at the stroke of twelve. Most of the WEAVERS resemble persons standing in front of a bar of justice where with tortuous expectation they must wait for a life-and-death decision. There is something of the oppressed about them, something characteristic of the receiver of charity, who, having passed from one humiliation to another, is conscious of the fact that he is merely tolerated and is accustomed to making himself as inconspicious as possible." (from The Weavers, Act One, translated by Carl Richard Mueller, with an introductio•
Gerhart Hauptmann
Deutsch: Gerhart Hauptmann (* 15. November 1862 in Ober Salzbrunn (seit 1935: Bad Salzbrunn), Kreis Waldenburg in Schlesien; † 6. Juni 1946 in Agnetendorf, Schlesien) war der wichtigste Dichter des deutschen Naturalismus.
English: 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.
Portraits and images related to Hauptmann
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Father Robert Hauptmann with his son Gerhart
Painting bygd Lovis Corinth, 1900
Gerhart Hauptmann, Fotografie von Fechner, Berlin, etwa 1890
Gerhart Hauptmann bygd Fritz Erler (painter)
Gerhart Hauptmann
Fotografie von Charles Scolik, undatiert.
Gerhart Hauptmann
Photo in 1905
Nobel Prize winner, c, 1912/1913
Max Liebermann - Porträt des Dichters Gerhart Hauptmann, 1912
Caricature bygd Arpad Schmidhammer
Etching by Lovis Corinth, 1917
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