Gerhart Hauptmann

Silesia sent a sculptor who took the German stage. He trained in Breslau and Rome, then wrote the scandal of Before Dawn, weavers in revolt, comedies of petty theft, tenement rats, a child’s assumption into heaven, a sunken bell, novels of a fool in Christ and a heretic in the south. The Nobel caught the variety, not one manner. Bahnwärter Thiel is an early study from the pines. He stayed. Others left.