Word: sudermanns
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...never heard of Sudermann, or his most popular drama, "Magda", in which Madame Bertha Kalich is now playing at the Plymouth, he would yet recognize it, before he had seen the first act through, as one of the dramas of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, as belonging to the period of Ibsen, Zola, Hardy, and the other great questioners of the established order of things. The predominant note which Sudermann strikes in "Magda" is one of protest and incidentally of inevitable tragedy. The comparison with Ibsen's "Ghosts" and the other Ibsen's dramas of a like nature...
...been irretrievably degraded, and all the household compassed in the ruin of one daughter. To his stiff-necked, unyielding idea of honor the only remedy lies through the bloody channels established by time and tradition. From this point the action might proceed to any one of many conclusions. Sudermann very wisely sees the struggle through, shows it up in its many phases, and leaves the future undetermined...
...sense is, to be sure, not an every day sight among the present inhabitants of this country. But there is certainly no American living who need search further than a Methodist grandparent or a German neighbor for first hand evidence that such Puritainism and paternalism as that emboided in Sudermann's Colonel Scnwartze is not entirely foreign to his own country and his own experience...
...Interior, introduced before the Reichstag last week his Schundund Schmutz (Trash and Smut) bill creating a committee of five censors, the adverse vote of any four of which would suffice to suppress any book or magazine. Straightway the Prussian Academy of Fine Arts, famous because it snubbed Hermann Sudermann* by not asking him to become a member of its new literature department, and was snubbed by Gerhart Hauptmann† who declined the honor (TIME, June 7), made haste last week to protest the new censorship bill in a manifesto signed by such "advanced" writers as Georg Kaiser, Bernhard Kellerman, Heinrich...
...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...