The Awakening of Spring

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The Awakening of Spring

play by Wedekind

Also known as: “Frühlings Erwachen”, “Spring Awakening”

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Frank Wedekind
…his tragedy Frühlings Erwachen (The Awakening of Spring, also published as Spring Awakening) created a scandal. Successfully produced by Max Reinhardt in 1905, the play is a series of brief scenes, some poetic and tender, others harsh and frank, dealing with the awakening of sexuality in three adolescents. In…
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…his tragedy Frühlings Erwachen (The Awakening of Spring, also published as Spring Awakening) created a scandal. Successfully produced by Max Reinhardt in 1905, the play is a series of brief scenes, some poetic and tender, others harsh and frank, dealing with the awakening of sexuality in three adolescents. In…
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Western theatre
Theatre of the 20th century and beyond
>Spring Awakening) began its study of adolescent love in the slice-of-life naturalistic mode and ended in the realm of ghosts and dreams, foreshadowing Expressionism, which was to preoccupy other German dramatists during the 1920s. Strindberg also is regarded as one of the fathers of Expressionism…
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>Spring Awakening) began its study of adolescent love in the slice-of-life naturalistic mode and ended in the realm of ghosts and dreams, foreshadowing Expressionism, which was to preoccupy other German dramatists during the 1920s. Strindberg also is regarded as one of the fathers of Expressionism…
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Jonathan Franzen
…German dramatist Frank Wedekind’s play Spring Awakening in 2007.
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…German dramatist Frank Wedekind’s play Spring Awakening in 2007.
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