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HERMANN See also: German dramatist and novelist, was See also: born on the 3oth of See also: September 1857 at Matziken in See also: East Prussia, close to the See also: Russian frontier, of a Mennonite See also: family long settled near See also: Elbing
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His See also: father owned a small brewery in the See also: village of Heydekrug, and See also: Sudermann received his early See also: education at the Realschule in Elbing, but, his parents having been reduced in circumstances, he was apprenticed to a chemist at the age of fourteen
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He was, however, enabled to enter the Realgymnasium in See also: Tilsit, and to study philosophy and See also: history at See also: Konigsberg University
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In See also: order to See also: complete his studies Sudermann went to Berlin, where he was tutor in several families
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He next became a journalist, was from 1881—1882 editor of the Deutsches Reichsblatt, and then devoted himself to novel-writing
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The novels and romances lm Zwielicht (1886), Frau Sorge (1887), Geschwister (1888) and Der Katzensteg (1890) failed to bring the See also: young author as much recognition as his first drama Die Ehre (1888), which inaugurated a new See also: period in the history of the German stage
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Of his other dramas the most successful were Sodoms Ende (1891), Heimat (1893), DieSchmetterlingsschlacht (1894), Das See also: Gluck See also: im Winkel (1895), Morituri (1896), Johannes (1898), Die drei Reiherfedern (1899), Johannesfeuer (1900), Es lebe das Leber:
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(Igoe), Der Sturmgeselle Sokrates (1903) and Stein enter Steinen (r9o5)
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Sudermann is also the author of a powerful social novel, Es war (1904), which, like Frau Sorge and Der Katzensteg, has been translated into See also: English
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Kawerau, Hermann Sudermann (1897) ; H
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Landsberg, Hermann Sudermann (1902); H
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See also: Jung, Hermann Sudermann (1902); H
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Schoen, Hermann Sudermann, poete dramatique et romancier (1905); and I
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Axelrod, Hermann Sudermann (1907)
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