The works of the German dramatist and novelist Hermann Sudermann (1857-1928) reflect both the scope and the limitations of naturalism. Hermann Sudermann was born in Matziken, East Prussia, on Sept. 30, 1857. He described his youthful poverty in Das...
Hermann Sudermann was considered by many of his contemporaries to be second among German naturalist writers only to the Nobel Prize-winning playwright Gerhart Hauptmann. His first drama, Die Ehre (performed, 1889; published, 1890; translated as Honor,...
Marriage and Divorce in the Plays of Hermann Sudermann. By KARL LEYDECKER. (European University Studies: Series 1, 1559) Frankfurt a.M: Lang. 1996. 278 pp. 34 [pounds sterling]. In 1910, when objections were raised to John Lane's publication of a translation of Sudermann's great...
This doctoral thesis will be of interest not only to scholars of German Naturalist drama but equally to all those concerned with the representation of the family and its discontents around the turn of the century. Indeed the title of Leydecker's account errs on...
