Word: hauptmanns
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gerhart Hauptmann, who is to speak on Gothe on Friday here, has come to America at the invitation of the Gormanistic Society of America and President Butler of Columbia University. The playwright will deliver four lectures in New York, one at Johns Hopkins University, and one in Washington. On his trip to this country he is accompanied by Mrs. Hauptman, their son, Benvenuto, who has already made a name for himself as a translator of English works into German, and his secretary...
Though it is as a dramatist that Hauptmann is best known, he has written a number of novels and short stories of which "The Fool in Christ" 1910, and "The Heretic of Soana" have obtained the widest circulation. He has also written verse-dramas and epics. Much discussion has been aroused by one of his latest works, which is based on the stories connected with the medieval Flemish jokester, Tyll Eulenspiegel. In the year 1912 Hauptmann received the Nobel prize and he has received honorary degree from various universities, among them Oxford...
...Hauptmann is recognized as the most important German dramatist of the last half century and his name is usually mentioned together with that of Ibsen. His home is in his native Silesian mountains...
...part of the centennial celebration of the life and works of the poet Goethe, Gerhart Hauptmann, foremost German playwright, will deliver a lecture in German entitled "Goethe" in Sanders Theatre on Friday, March 4, at 8 o'clock. This is one of the seven occasions upon which Dr. Hauptmann is scheduled to speak during his visit to this country...
Though it is as a dramatist that Hauptmann is chiefly known, he has written a number of novels and short stories and is the composer of several verse-dramas and epics...