Der Sohn
work by Hasenclever
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Der Sohn (1914), meaning "The Son," is a play by German Expressionist poet and dramatist Walter Hasenclever. The work centers on a young man who becomes a political revolutionary and is responsible for his father's death. This play became a manifesto for the post-World War I generation in Germany. Hasenclever's writing often protested against bourgeois materialism and the war-making state.1
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