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See also:HERMANN See also:SUDERMANN (1857— ) , See also:German dramatist and novelist, was See also:born on the 3oth of See also:September 1857 at Matziken in See also:East See also:Prussia, See also:close to the See also:Russian frontier, of a Mennonite See also:family See also:long settled near See also:Elbing . His See also:father owned a small brewery in the See also:village of Heydekrug, and See also:Sudermann received his See also: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 See also:age of fourteen . He was, however, enabled to enter the Realgymnasium in See also:Tilsit, and to study See also:philosophy and See also:history at See also:Konigsberg University . In See also:order to See also:complete his studies Sudermann went to See also:Berlin, where he was See also:tutor in several families . He next became a journalist, was from 1881—1882 editor of the Deutsches Reichsblatt, and then devoted himself to novel-See also:writing . 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 See also:drama See also:Die Ehre (1888), which inaugurated a new See also:period in the history of the German See also:stage . 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 See also:Leber: ! (Igoe), Der Sturmgeselle Sokrates (1903) and See also:Stein enter Steinen (r9o5) . Sudermann is also the author of a powerful social novel, Es See also:war (1904), which, like Frau Sorge and Der Katzensteg, has been translated into See also:English . See W . Kawerau, See also:Hermann Sudermann (1897) ; H . Landsberg, Hermann Sudermann (1902); H . See also:Jung, Hermann Sudermann (1902); H . Schoen, Hermann Sudermann, poete dramatique et romancier (1905); and I . Axelrod, Hermann Sudermann (1907) . |
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