Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 December 2020
The appearance in 1889 of a drama like Vor Sonnenaufgang as the work of a young genius, practically unknown, was startling. Though it would not be quite accurate to speak of it as the first drama written by Hauptmann, nothing was known of his earlier dramatic efforts. His lyrical works fared better. Both Promethidenloos and Das Bunte Buch had actually reached the public and are still treasured by their fortunate owners. Fasching and Bahnwärter Thiel had also appeared before 1889, as well as two short articles, almost unknown to-day—a review of Hermann Conradi's Lieder eines Sünders and an essay Gedanken über das Bemalen der Statuen.
* This paper was read before the Germanic Section of the Modern Language Association of America at Toronto, December 29, 1928.
Note 1 in page 901 Promethidenloos, Eine Dichtung, Berlin, W. Issleib 1885.
Note 2 in page 901 Das Bunte Buch, Leipzig und Stuttgart, Meinhards Verlagshandlung 1888.
Note 3 in page 901 In Siegfried, Zts.für volkstüml. Dicht. und Wissenschaft, Leipzig und Stuttgart 1887.
Note 4 in page 901 In Die Gesellschaft, Monatsschrift für Litt. und Kunst, Heft 10, Leipzig 1888.
Note 5 in page 901 Allgemeine deutsche Universitätszeitung, 1887.
Note 6 in page 901 Ibid.
Note 7 in page 901 Gerhart Hauptmann, Leben und Werke, von Paul Schlenther, Neue Ausgabe 1922.
Note 8 in page 902 Ibid.
Note 9 in page 902 Gerhart Hauptmann, von Hans von Hülsen, Leipzig 1927.
Note 10 in page 902 Gerhart Hauptmann, von Adalbert von Hanstein, Leipzig 1898.
Note 11 in page 903 Ibid.
Note 12 in page 903 Das Bunte Buch, private edition, Leipziger Bibliophilen Abend 1924; Fasching Maximilian Gesellschaft 1925; also S. Fischer Verlag 1925 Fragmente und Unveröffentliches, Grosse Ausgabe 1922, Vol. XII.
Note 13 in page 904 Hermannsschlacht 1769; Hermann und die Fürsten 1784; Hermanns Tod 1787.
Note 14 in page 904 Hermannsschlacht 1838.
Note 15 in page 906 S. Fischer Verlag 1918.
Note 16 in page 906 S. Fischer, Berlin 1910.
Note 17 in page 906 Schlenther, Gerhart Hauptmann; neue Ausgabe von Arthur Eloesser 1922.
Note 18 in page 907 Ode, On Intimations of Immortality.
Note 19 in page 908 Das Bunte Buch.
Note 20 in page 910 Festspiel in deutschen Reimen, S. Fischer, Berlin 1913.
Note 21 in page 910 Hannele, S. Fischer, Berlin 1894.
Note 22 in page 910 Florian Geyer, S. Fischer, Berlin 1896.
Note 23 in page 910 Anna, S. Fischer, Berlin 1921.