Dramatists and Playwrights

Walter Haslenclever

(born July 8, 1890, Aachen, Ger.—died June 21, 1940, Les Milles, France),

"German Expressionist poet and dramatist whose work is a protest against bourgeois materialism and the war-making state."

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Works: Der Sohn (1914; “The Son”), Der Retter (1915; “The Saviour”), Antigone (1917), Die Menschen (1918; “Humanity”)

Georg Kaiser

(born Nov. 25, 1878, Magdeburg, Ger.—died June 4, 1945, Ascona, Switz.)

Ernst Toller

(born Dec. 1, 1893, Samotschin, Ger.—died May 22, 1939, New York, N.Y., U.S.)

"Dramatist, poet, and political activist, who was a prominent exponent of Marxism and pacifism in Germany in the 1920s. His Expressionist plays embodied his spirit of social protest." - http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/598659/Ernst-Toller

Works: Masse-Mensch (1920; Man and the Masses, 1923),and Eine Jugend in Deutschland (I Was a German, 1934).

Leading German expressionist - http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/309821/Georg-Kaiser

Works: Die Bürger von Calais (1914;The Burghers of Calais), on Morgens bis Mitternachts(1916; From Morn to Midnight), Gas trilogy, consisting of Die Koralle (1917;The Coral), Gas I (1918), and Gas II (1920),Oktobertag(1928; The Phantom Lover), Der Gärtner von Toulouse (1938; The Gardener of Toulouse), Alain und Elise (1940), Zweimal Amphitryon (Twice Amphityron), Pygmalion, and Bellerophon.