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Walter Hasenclever: Quick Facts

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Born July 8, 1890 • Aachen • Germany
Died June 21, 1940 (aged 49) • France
Notable Works “Antigone” • “Der Retter” • “Der Sohn” • “Die Menschen”
Movement / Style Expressionism

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Frank Wedekind, 1918.
Frank Wedekind
German actor and dramatist
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Carl Sternheim
German dramatist
Georg Kaiser, c. 1928
Georg Kaiser
German dramatist
Werfel, Franz
Franz Werfel
German writer
Fritz von Unruh.
Fritz von Unruh
German author
Toller
Ernst Toller
German writer
portrait of Klabund by Orlik
Klabund
German writer
Oskar Kokoschka
Oskar Kokoschka
Austrian painter and writer
Max Frisch
Max Frisch
Swiss author
Bahr, 1916
Hermann Bahr
Austrian writer
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Anton Wildgans
Austrian dramatist and poet
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German author
Friedrich Schiller, painting by Anton Graff, c. 1785.
Friedrich Schiller
German writer
German dramatist and critic Gotthold Lessing
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
German author
Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht
German dramatist
Gerhart Hauptmann
Gerhart Hauptmann
German writer
Heinrich von Kleist, drawing by Wilhelmina von Zenge, 1801; in the Staatsbibliothek Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin.
Heinrich von Kleist
German author
Tieck, detail of an oil painting by K. Vogel von Vogelstein, 1834; in the National Gallery, Berlin
Ludwig Tieck
German writer
Hebbel, detail of a lithograph by Fritz Kriehuber, 1858
Friedrich Hebbel
German dramatist
Weiss, Peter
Peter Weiss
German writer