Author · Germany
Christian Dietrich Grabbe
Died in 1836
Christian Dietrich Grabbe was born in 1801 in Detmold, the son of a warden of a house of correction. A grant from the reigning princess allowed him to study law in Leipzig and then in Berlin, where he met Heine. He looked in vain for a post as an actor or a director, then returned to Detmold, where in 1826 he stood in for a sick military auditor before succeeding him in 1828. His alcoholism worsened from 1831. Married in 1833 to a woman ten years his senior, he left his post in 1834, passed through Frankfurt and Düsseldorf, where he worked with Immermann, and returned to Detmold to die in 1836.
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- TheatreHerzog Theodor von GothlandChristian Dietrich Grabbe · 1827not translated into EnglishLiteraturePublic domain