biography
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Hebbel, (Christian) Friedrich
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1813–63)
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| biography:
| Playwright, born in Wesselburen, N Germany. He studied in Hamburg from 1835, and after stays in Heidelberg, Munich, and Copenhagen, settled in Vienna (1846). His only contemporary play is Maria Magdalena (1844), his favourite settings being of a legendary, historical, or biblical character, as in Herodes und Marianne (1850) and his masterpiece, the Nibelungen trilogy (1862). He constantly portrayed the inherent Hegelian conflict between individuality and humanity as a whole. |
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