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...Among his best known novels are Frau Sorge (Dame Care), Der Katzensteg (The Cats' Bridge) and Es War (It Was). His plays include Ehre (Honor), Es lebe das Leben (Long Live Life!) and Heimath, the last of which, under the name of Magda, is particularly familiar to English and American playgoers. Much of his work is available in English translations...
More nearly than any other German play, unless it is Sudermann's "Heimath," of our immediate time, "Alt Heidelberg" is a universal, almost a classic piece. Even mistrustful Paris has seen it gladly, while American audiences long since warmed to its sentiment and its humor. German it is at every turn; in its satire of the petty routine and stiff-backed etiquette of the modern Pumper-nickel that Meyer-Foerster calls Sachsen-Karlsburg; in its glimpses of the life of the students at Heidelberg; and, above all, in its two sentimentalists--the old tutor, Juettner, dreaming over the university...
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