Friedrich Hebbel: Quick Facts

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Also Known As	Christian Friedrich Hebbel
Born	March 18, 1813 • Germany
Died	December 13, 1863 (aged 50) • Vienna • Austria
Notable Works	“Agnes Bernauer” • “Gyges and His Ring” • “Judith” • “Maria Magdalena” • “Tagebücher”

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Hebbel, detail of a lithograph by Fritz Kriehuber, 1858

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Friedrich Schiller, painting by Anton Graff, c. 1785.

Friedrich Schiller

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Gerhart Hauptmann

Gerhart Hauptmann

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Heinrich von Kleist, drawing by Wilhelmina von Zenge, 1801; in the Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin.

Heinrich von Kleist

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Andreas Gryphius, 17th-century engraving.

Andreas Gryphius

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Grabbe, portrait after a lithograph by Weibezahl

Christian Dietrich Grabbe

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Karl Gutzkow

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Heinrich Julius

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Gerstenberg, engraving

Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg

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Jakob Ayrer

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Leisewitz, engraving by C.F.T. Uhlemann after a portrait by Kaurdorf

Johann Anton Leisewitz

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Otto Devrient

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Franz Grillparzer

Austrian dramatist

Hofmannsthal, photograph by Thea Sternheim, 1911; in the Schiller-Nationalmuseum, Marbach, Ger.

Hugo von Hofmannsthal

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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German dramatist and critic Gotthold Lessing

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

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Bertolt Brecht

Bertolt Brecht

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Tieck, detail of an oil painting by K. Vogel von Vogelstein, 1834; in the National Gallery, Berlin

Ludwig Tieck

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Weiss, Peter

Peter Weiss

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Immermann, engraving by Franz Stüber, after a painting by Karl Friedrich Lessing

Karl Leberecht Immermann

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Gustav Freytag

Gustav Freytag

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