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Using the stage as a soap box, Playwright Toller now harangues through the character of Egon Hinkemann (Maurice Schwartz). Before he marched off to fight for the Fatherland, Egon was a strapping fellow with a beautiful wife (Helen MacKellar). He returns from the fray an emasculated wreck, "no man at all." To make a living he astonishes side show crowds by biting the heads off guinea pigs. "They want blood!" says his manager. They...
Meanwhile things are going badly in the Hinkemann home. Egon constantly hears imaginary laughter ringing in his ears, pitiless, mocking laughter at his infirmity. His best friend seduces, impregnates his wife. She commits suicide. Egon finds himself a piece of rope and walks off the stage to become another victim, Herr Toller would have you believe, of mankind's most savage enemy...
...among the German Expressionists, Ernst Toller, who had at first, in "Die Wandlung" and in "Masse-Mensch" alternated with reality dream-scenes showing what was going on in the mind of his characters, has emerged altogether from the dream settings in his later plays "Die Maschinensturmer" and "Der Deutsche Hinkemann". In other words the Freudian psycho-analysis which had at first been applied to the interpretation of dreams has come to be applied to the whole of our waking life...
...billboards in Berlin appeared the opening announcement of Hinkemann, a play by Ernest Toller. The public were requested if they did not like the show, to leave quietly or be thrown out by a special guard of boxers and wrestlers. The play had just been withdrawn from Dresden where it created numerous disturbances. Hence the precautions...
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