Gerhart Hauptmann

Gerhart Hauptmann was born in 1862 at Ober Salzbrunn, in Silesia, where his parents kept a hotel. After an interrupted agricultural apprenticeship, he studied sculpture in Breslau, tried in vain to establish himself as a sculptor in Rome, then joined the naturalist circle in Berlin. His first play, in 1889, caused a scandal; in 1892, he brought the 1844 revolt of the Silesian weavers to the stage. Nobel Prize winner in 1912, he remained in Germany after 1933 and signed the Academy's loyalty oath. He died in 1946 at Agnetendorf, in a Silesia that had passed under Polish administration.

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• Short storiesLineman ThielBahnwärter ThielGerhart Hauptmann · 1888LiteraturePublic domain