biography
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Hauptmann, Gerhart (Johann Robert)
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pronunciation:
[howptman]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1862–1946)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Wałbrzych, SW Poland (formerly Obersalzbrunn, Germany). He studied sculpture in Wrocław, Poland (formerly Breslau, Prussia), and Rome before settling in Berlin (1885), where he established a reputation with his first play, Vor Sonnenaufgang (1889, trans Before Dawn). He followed this with several other social dramas, such as Die Weber (1892, The Weavers). He also wrote several novels, as well as poetry, and was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1912. |
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