Frank Wedekind

Frank Wedekind was born in 1864 in Hanover; his father, a doctor who had emigrated to California after 1848 and then returned, settled the family in Switzerland in 1872, at Lenzburg castle. After unfinished studies, he ran the advertising of the Maggi company, worked for a circus, then took part in 1896 in the founding of the satirical magazine Simplicissimus. Verses against Wilhelm II earned him in 1899 a conviction for lèse-majesté and several months in a fortress. He sang his songs to the guitar at the Eleven Executioners cabaret and performed his plays with his wife, the actress Tilly Newes. He died in Munich in 1918.

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• TheatreFranziskaFrank Wedekind · 1912LiteraturePublic domain