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Der Retter

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  • Hasenclever
    In Walter Hasenclever

    …followed by two antiwar plays, Der Retter (1915; “The Saviour”), about a poet who tries to stop the war and is executed by a firing squad, and Antigone (1917), a pacifist-slanted interpretation of Sophocles’ play. In his best-known work, Die Menschen (1918; “Humanity”), Expressionist techniques are carried to an extreme…

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