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 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