Hermann Bahr
Hermann Bahr was born on the 19 th July 1863; he died on the 15 th January 1934. He was an Austrian writer, playwright, director and cri...
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Hermann Bahr was born on the 19th July 1863; he died on the 15th
January 1934. He was an Austrian writer, playwright, director and critic.
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Biography
Hermann Bahr was born and raised in the city of Linz. He studied in
Vienna, Graz, Berlin and in Czernowitz and devoted good attention to
philosophy, Law, economy, philology and the economy of the world.
At the time of his prolonged stay in Paris, France, Hermann Bahr found
interest in literature and art. He began with the work of art critic, first in
the city of Berlin and then in the city of Vienna.
He became an associate editor of the Berliner Freie Bühne and then later was made the associate editor and a
critic of the German Newspaper.
He founded the publication called Die Zeit in the year 1894 and was the
editor of the Neue Wiener Tagblatt and also the editor of the Oesterreichische
Volkszeitung.
Hermann Bahr worked as a director with Max Reinhardt at the German
theatre in Berlin from the year 1906 to the year 1907.
He was a Dramaturg with the Vienna Burgtheater
from the year 1918.
He was the spokesman
for the literary group called Young Vienna.
Hermann Bahr was a prominent member of the Austrian avant-garde.
He was the first
critic of the country to apply the label of modernism to the literary works he
did and was one of the early observers of the Expressionism movement in the
country.
Selected
Fiction
Plays
Ø The New People (Die neuen Menschen – 1887)
Ø The Mother (Die Mutter – 1891)
Ø Das Tschaperl (1897)
Ø Der Star (1899)
Ø Wienerinnen (1900)
Ø Der Krampus (1902)
Ø Ringelspiel (1907)
Ø The Concert (Das Konzert – 1909)
Ø The Children (Die Kinder – 1911)
Ø Das Prinzip (1912)
Ø Der Querulant (1914)
Ø The Master (Der Meister – 1914)
Short stories
and novellas
Ø The School of Love (Die gute Schule. Seelenstände – 1890)
Ø Fin de siècle (1891)
Ø Die Rahl (1908)
Ø O Mensch (1910)
Ø Österreich in Ewigkeit
(1929)
Selected
Nonfiction
Essays
Ø Zur Kritik der Moderne
(1890)
Ø Die Überwindung des Naturalismus
(1891)
Ø Symbolisten (1894)
Ø Wiener Theater (1899)
Ø Frauenrecht (1912) eLibrary
Austria Project (elib austria full text)
Ø Inventur (1912)
Ø Expressionismus (1916)
Ø Burgtheater (1920)
Books
Ø Theater (1897)
Ø Drut (1909)
Ø Himmelfahrt (1916)
Ø Die Rotte Korahs (1919)
Ø Self-Portrait (Selbstbildnis – 1923), an
autobiography
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