biography
pronunciation:
[sooderman]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1857–1928)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Matziken, East Prussia. He was a reporter for the Deutsches Reichsblatt before becoming a freelance writer. His naturalistic plays were effective but sentimental, owed much to the French ‘conversation plays’ of Sardou, and inveighed against the lack of morals among the middle classes, notably in Die Ehre (1890) and Heimat (1893). He wrote novels and short stories set in E Prussia, and won international acclaim with his plays Johannes (1898), Johannisfeuer (1900), and Es lebt das Leben (1902). |
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