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Gerhart Hauptmann

German dramatist who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1912 (1862-1946) · Germany · Writers · Died at 83

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He brought the German stage down from verse and kings into tenements and dialect, made theatrical naturalism a force in Europe, and took the Nobel in 1912 for it.

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1946Died6 June 19461932Goethe Prize of the City of FrankfurtAward1922Adlerschild des Deutschen ReichesAward1912Nobel Prize in LiteratureAward1911Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and ArtAward1905Franz-Grillparzer-PreisAward1899Franz-Grillparzer-PreisAward1896Franz-Grillparzer-PreisAward1862Born15 November 1862

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Awards

Goethe Prize of the City of Frankfurt1932
Adlerschild des Deutschen Reiches1922
Nobel Prize in Literature1912
Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art1911
Franz-Grillparzer-Preis1905
Franz-Grillparzer-Preis1899
Franz-Grillparzer-Preis1896
Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order
Ring of Honour of the City of Vienna
Order of the Red Eagle 4th Class
Honorary Doctor of the Leipzig University
Honorary doctor of the University of Oxford
Honorary Doctorate from Columbia University
Honorary Doctor of the Charles University of Prague
Goethe Medal for Art and Science
Pour le Mérite
Order of the Red Eagle

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Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann was born on 15 November 1862 in Germany, into a century that wanted its art to look like life. He became a dramatist and novelist who championed literary naturalism - the unvarnished, the working-class, the raw - and his plays made him one of the movement's most important voices in German letters. He didn't stay locked in one style; he folded other modes into his work as his career stretched on. The Nobel Prize in Literature came to him in 1912. He died on 6 June 1946.

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Germany
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1862 to 1946 · aged 83

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