Word: salzbrunn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Gerhart Hauptmann was born 63 years ago, son of a hotelkeeper, grandson of a weaver, in Salzbrunn. Germany. He mixed farming and school, until old enough (18) to become a sculptor in the art school at Breslau. He interested himself in the natural sciences and sociology, married wealth and built up a reputation as a dramatist upon plays expressing his revolt against social and artistic conditions in a milito-capitalistic state. The uproar caused by his sententious eloquence paralleled Corneille's presentation of Le Cid in 17th Century Paris, and drew such attention that in 1905 Oxford hailed...
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