biography
pronunciation:
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| lived:
| (1866–1914)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Kulm, E Germany. He trained in medicine, then turned to literature and worked for several newspapers. His early writing was influenced by Naturalism, and later he became the initiator of the literary genre known as the ‘Heimat’ novel, notably Mein grünes Buch (1901), Der letzte Hansbur (1909), and Das zweite Gesicht (1912). His popular nationalistic novel Der Wehrwolf (1910) was set in the Thirty Years' War. He also wrote nature and love poetry, including Der kleine Rosengarten (1911) which describes the landscape and people of the Lüneburger Heath. |
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