biography
pronunciation:
[halbuh]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1865–1944)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Güttland, near Danzig, Germany. A friend of Wedekind, Hartleben, Keyserling, and Thoma, he was a member of the artistic milieu in Schwabing. His most successful work was the play Jugend, a lyrical evocation of first love with a tragic outcome. The realistic Mutter Erde (1897) and Der Strom (1904) stress the inevitability of fate and use natural disaster as a symbol for social catastrophe. |
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