Gerhart Hauptmann

Gerhart Hauptmann (November 15, 1862 - June 6, 1946), German dramatist, was born on at Obersalzbrunn, Prussia (now Szczawno Drój, Poland) in Silesia, the son of a hotel-keeper. The source (http://www. ... The source (http://www. ... November 15 is the 319th day of the year (320th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 46 days remaining. ... 1862 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... June 6 is the 157th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (158th in leap years), with 208 days remaining. ... 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... A dramatist is an author of dramatic compositions, usually plays. ... Silesia (-Latin, Polish ÅšlÄ…sk, German Schlesien, Czech Slezsko) is a historical region in central Europe. ...

From the village school of his natlve place he passed, to the Realschule in Breslau, and was then sent to learn agriculture on his uncle's farm at Jauer. Having, however, no taste for country life, he soon returned to Breslau and entered the art school, intending to become a sculptor. He then studied at Jena, and spent the greater part of the years 1883 and 1884 in Italy. 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. Wrocław, ( [:vrɔʦwaf]), German Breslau, Czech Vratislav, Latin Wratislavia; many Polish documents in English use the spelling Wroclaw) is the capital of Silesia in southwestern Poland, situated on the Oder River (Odra). ... Friedrich Schiller University of Jena (FSU) is located in Jena, Thuringia in Germany and was named for the German writer Friedrich Schiller. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ...

In 1891 he retired to Schreiberhau in Silesia. 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. 1891 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Realism is commonly defined as a concern for fact or reality and rejection of the impractical and visionary. ... 1844 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ...

Of Hauptmann's subsequent work mention may be made of the comedies Kollege Crampton (1892), Der Biberpelz (1893) and Der rote Hahn (1901), a "dream poem," Hannele (1893), and an historical drama Florian Geyer (1895). He also wrote two tragedies of Silesian peasant life, Fuhrmann Henschel (1898) and Rose Berndt (1903), and the dramatic fairy-tales Die versunkene Glocke (1897) and Und Pippa tanzt (1905). Several of his works have been translated into English.

He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1912. The Nobel Prize in literature is awarded annually to an author from any country who has, in the words of Alfred Nobel, produced the most outstanding work of an idealistic tendency. The work in this case generally refers to an authors work as a whole, not to any individual... 1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday. ...

Biographies of Hauptmann and critical studies of his drama, have been published by A Bartels (1897); P Schlenther (1898) and UC Woerner (2nd ed. 1900). See also L Benoist-Hanappier La Drama naturaliste en Allemagne (1905).

Hauptman died at the age of 83 at his home in Agnetendorf (now Jagniatkow, Poland) on June 6, 1946.

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• This article incorporates text from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, which is in the public domain.