HAUPTMANN, Gerhart (Johann Robert)
- HAUPTMANN, Gerhart (Johann Robert)
(1862-1946)
German playwright and novelist, winner of the 1912 Nobel Prize for Literature, whose greatest plays were performed before the turn of the century and whose novels were written later. Of sf interest is Die Insel der grossen Mutter, oder Das Wunder von Ile des Dames: EineGeschichte aus dem Utopischen Archipelagus (1924; trans Willa and Edwin Muir as The Island of the Great Mother 1925 US). The subtitle - "The Miracle of the Ile des Dames: A Tale from the Utopian Archipelago" - fairly describes the complex mood of GH's ROBINSONADE, which portrays a matriarchal ISLAND society founded after a shipwreck, and follows the young men who, upon being exiled to another part of the Isle of Women, soon revolt, ending an ideal world.
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Other works: Hanneles Himmelfahrt (1893; trans 1894 UK) and Die versunkene Glocke (1896; trans C.H. Meltzer as The Sunken Bell 1898 UK) and Till Eulenspiegel (1928), fantasy playsAtlantis (1912; trans Adele and Thomas Seltzer 1912 US), which has nothing to do with Atlantis, but contains supernatural elements.
Science Fiction and Fantasy Encyclopedia.
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2011.
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Hauptmann, Gerhart (Johann Robert) — born Nov. 15, 1862, Bad Salzbrunn, Silesia, Prussia died June 6, 1946, Agnetendorf, Ger. German playwright and poet. He studied sculpture before turning to literature in his early 20s. His first play, the starkly realistic social drama Before… … Universalium
Hauptmann, Gerhart (Johann Robert) — (15 nov. 1862, Bad Salzbrunn, Silesia, Prusia–6 jun. 1946, Agnetendorf, Alemania). Dramaturgo y poeta alemán. Estudió escultura antes de dedicarse a la literatura cuando ya tenía un poco más de 20 años de edad. Su primera obra, el severo drama… … Enciclopedia Universal
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