Word: sonnenaufgang
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Upon his return to Germany, he turned entirely to literature and soon became a leader in the Naturalistic Movement. He soon was recognized as the outstanding of the younger generation. His first important drama, "Vor Sonnenaufgang," at its first performance in 1889, caused a tremendous uproar, and from that day on his new works were awaited with eagerness. Of his many plays, the best known is "The Weavers," which, since its first appearance in 1892, has run through over a hundred editions and countless stage performances in many languages...
...Gerhart Hauptmann, 64, son of an inn keeper, chief exponent in the '90s of what was then "modern drama." His Vor Sonnenaufgang, (Before Sunrise), 1889, inaugurated and gave impetus to the new German dramatic movement which, unlike that of other lands, is still pressing on to new and violently original achievements. Like Sudermann, Hauptmann subsided as a great creative artist about 1910, though only last year he published the much talked of satirical novel Die Insel der Grossen Mutter (The Isle of the Great Mother) ; and only last week his new Dorothea Angermann had its premiere in Vienna...
Since Gerhart Hauptmann is 64, ripe in honor, hoar in fame, no charge of "publicity seeking" was raised against the author of Vor Sonnenaufgang (Before Sunrise), precursor of the whole modern German realistic movement, Die versunkene Glocke (The Sunken Bell), and Rose Berndt...
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