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Born September 30, 1857 • Lithuania
Died November 21, 1928 (aged 71) • Berlin • Germany
Notable Works “Dame Care” • “Magda” • “The Book of My Youth” • “The Excursion to Tilsit” • “The Song of Songs” • “What Money Cannot Buy”
Movement / Style naturalism

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Sudermann, detail of an oil painting by Max Slevogt, 1927; in the National Gallery, Berlin
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Franz Ferdinand, Freiherr von Dingelstedt, engraving by A. Weger after a photograph.
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Gerhart Hauptmann
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Bulgarian-born writer
Max Frisch
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Albert Steffen
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Bahr, 1916
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Austrian writer
Bertolt Brecht
Bertolt Brecht
German dramatist
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Immermann, engraving by Franz Stüber, after a painting by Karl Friedrich Lessing
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Gustav Freytag
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Carl Sternheim
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Gutzkow
Karl Gutzkow
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Schickele
René Schickele
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Franz Werfel
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Clemens Brentano, detail of an etching by Ludwig Grimm, 1837
Clemens Brentano
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