His wife Margarete's remains were moved to lie beside her husband's, though she had died in 1957
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Gerhart Hauptmann
Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann was a German dramatist and novelist. He is counted among the most important promoters of literary naturalism, though he integrated other styles into his work as well. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1912.
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culture · German author (1862–1946) · playwright · poet · lyricist · novelist · autobiographer · screenwriter · writer · also Gerhart Hauptmann, Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann, Hauptmann
Born 15 November 1862 · Died 6 June 1946 · Q43523
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1962· 1 entry
And his works continued to be performed on West German stages into the 1970s, especially Der Biberpelz and Die Ratten
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1951· 1 entry
A granite block was unveiled as the grave stone
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1946· 1 entry
Died 1946-06-06.
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1944· 2 entries
Hauptmann's name was included in the Gottbegnadeten list (the "God-gifted list"), a list of artists considered crucial to the German culture, who were therefore exempt from mobilization in the war effort
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Published his Atreus Tetralogy, which he had been working on for four years
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1942· 2 entries
Was honored by the government with a festival and tributes, which he accepted
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Representatives of the Nazi regime cooperated with honors, celebrations, and celebratory performances
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1933· 1 entry
Hauptmann signed a loyalty oath of the German Academy of Literature, a section of the Prussian Academy of Arts
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1932· 2 entries
Awarded Goethe Prize of the City of Frankfurt (1932).
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In honor of the centenary of Goethe's death, he went on a lecture tour of the United States and was awarded and honorary doctorate from Columbia University
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1922· 2 entries
Awarded honorary citizen of Breslau (1922).
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Awarded Adlerschild des Deutschen Reiches (1922).
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1918· 1 entry
Joined a declaration, signed by a number of German intellectuals and published in the Berliner Tageblatt newspaper, showing solidarity with the Republic
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1915· 1 entry
Wilhelm II awarded him the Order of the Red Eagle, Fourth Class
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1913· 1 entry
A Breslau production of Hauptmann's play Commemoration Masque (Festspiel in deutschen Reimen) was canceled, because in it the hundredth anniversary of the Liberation of Germany from Napoleon was depicted with a pacifisti
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1912· 3 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature — primarily in recognition of his fruitful, varied and outstanding production in the realm of dramatic art.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Literature (1912).
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Was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "primarily in recognition of his fruitful, varied and outstanding production in the realm of dramatic art", after he had been nominated in that year by Erich Schmidt, member o
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1911· 1 entry
Awarded Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art (1911).
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1910· 1 entry
Hauptmann's first full-length novel was published, The Fool in Christ, Emanuel Quint, which told the story of a wandering preacher who mixed sun worship with Christianity
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1905· 4 entries
Awarded Franz-Grillparzer-Preis (1905).
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And 1906 by his affair with a 16-year-old actress, Ida Orloff
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And from the University of Leipzig in 1909
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And his play Before Sunrise is deeply concerned with hereditary alcoholism, a popular idea with eugenicists, and the main character rejects his fiancée due to concerns about his potential children's genetics
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1899· 1 entry
Awarded Franz-Grillparzer-Preis for Drayman Henschel (1899).
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1896· 1 entry
Awarded Franz-Grillparzer-Preis for The Assumption of Hannele (1896).
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1893· 1 entry
Also took actress Margarete Marschalk as his lover
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1887· 1 entry
Called before the court in Breslau, because he had been a follower of the "Icharians," whose ideas hearkened back to the ideas of French communist Etienne Cabet
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1868· 1 entry
Attended the village school and then, in 1874, the Realschule in Breslau for which he had only barely passed the qualifying exam
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1862· 2 entries
Born 1862-11-15.
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In Obersalzbrunn, now known as Szczawno-Zdrój, in Lower Silesia (then a part of the Kingdom of Prussia, now a part of Poland)
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1844· 1 entry
For which he is best known outside of Germany
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