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Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann, recipient of the 1912 Nobel Prize for Literature, was born in Obersalzbrunn, Germany. His father, Robert Hauptmann, was a hotel owner, and his mother was Marie Strachler Hauptmann. He was educated at the Breslau Art Institute and the University of Jena, where he studied history. He worked briefly as a sculptor before devoting his energies to writing.
Hauptmann published his first work, PROMETHIDENLOOS, when he was 23. His first play, VOR SONNENAUFGANG, gained him recognition as a writer. His best known work is DIE WEBER (THE WEAVERS), which was published in 1893.
Gerhart Hauptmann died in Agnetendorf, Germany in 1946.
CHRONOLOGY
1862 He was born in Obersalzbrunn, Germany. (November 15)
1880 He entered the Breslau Art Institute.
1882 He entered the University of Jena.
1885 PROMETHIDENLOOS; He married Marie Thienemann.; He moved to Berlin.
1889 VOR SONNENAUFGANG (BEFORE DAYBREAK)
1890 DAS FRIEDENSFEST (THE COMING OF PEACE)
1891 EINSAME MENSCHEN (LONELY LIVES)
1893 DIE WEBER (THE WEAVERS); DER BIBERPELZ (THE BEAVER COAT)
1894 HANNELES HIMMELFAHRT (HANNELE)
1896 DER VERSUNKENE GLOCKE (THE SUNKEN BELL); FLORIAN GEYER
1898 FUHRMANN HENSCHELL
1901 THREE PLAYS
1904 He divorced Marie Thienemann.; He married Margarete Marschalk.
1906 UND PIPPA TANZT
1908 GRIESCHISHER FRUHLING
1910 DER NARR IN CHRISTO EMMANUEL QUINT (THE FOOL IN CHRIST, EMMANUEL QUINT)
1911 DIE RATTEN (THE RATS)
1912 ATLANTIS; GABRIEL SCHILLINGS FLUCHT (GABRIEL SCHILLING'S FLIGHT); DIE INSEL DER GROSSEN MUTTER (THE ISLAND OF THE GREAT MOTHER); THE DRAMATIC WORKS, 1912-1929, 9 vols.; GESAMMELTE WERKE
1914 DER BOGEN DESS ODYSSEUS
1915 THE MAIDEN OF THE MOUNT; PARSIVAL
1917 WINTERBALLADE
1918 DER KETZER VON SOANA (THE HERETIC OF SOANA)
1921 ANNA; PETER BRAUER
1922 PHANTOM
1925 FASCHING
1926 DOROTHEA ANGERMANN
1928 WANDA
1931 BUCH DER LEIDENSCHAFT
1932 VOR SONNENUNTERGANG
1933 DIE GOLDENE HARFE
1934 DAS MEERWUNDER
1935 HAMLET IN WITTENBERG
1936 IM WIRBEL DER BERUFUNG
1937 DAS ABENTEURER MEINE JUGEND
1939 DIE TOCHTER DER KATHEDRALE; ULRIHC VON LICHTENSTEIN
1941 IPHIGENIE IN DELPHI
1942 MAGNUS GARBE; DER GROSSE TRAUM; DES SCHLUSS IM PARK; GESAMMELTE WERKE
1944 IPHIGENIE IN AULIS
1946 NEUE GEDICHTE; He died in Agnetendorf, Germany. (June 6)
1947 DIE FINSTERNISSE; MIGNON
1949 DIE ATRIDEN-TETRALOGIE
1954 WINCKELMANN
1961 FIVE PLAYS BY GERHART HAUPTMANN
1962 SAMTLICHE WERKE, 1962-74, 11 vols.
1966 DIE GROSSEN BEICHTEN
1976 ITALIENISCGE REISE
1977 THREE PLAYS
1980 DIARIUM 1917-1933
1982 NOTIZKALENDER 1889-1891
1985 TAGEBUCH 1892-1894
1993 THE SIGNALMAN AND OTHER STORIES
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