biography
pronunciation:
[shtahvenhahgen]
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| lived:
| (1876–1906)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Hamburg, N Germany. A self-taught man, the son of a coachman, he trained as a chemist before becoming a journalist and finally, shortly before he died, a playwright. He wrote plays about rural life, written in low German in the Naturalist tradition of Ludwig Anzengruber and Gerhart Hauptmann, such as Jürgen Piepers (1901) and Mudder Mews (1906), which is a powerful depiction of character and atmosphere. |
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