His father owned a little brewery in the village of Heydekrug, & Sudermann received his early education at the Realschule around Elbing, but, his parents with been reduced within circumstances, he was apprenticed to a chemist at the age of xiv. He was, but, enabled to enter a Realgymnasium inside Tilsit, & to survey philosophy and history at Königsberg University.

Sequentially to complete his studies Sudermann attend Berlin, where he was private instructor inside many families. He next became the journalist, was from 1881-1882 editor of the Deutsches Reichsblatt, and so devoted himself to novel-writing. A novels & romances Int. Zwielicht (1886), Frau Sorge (1887), Geschwister (1888) & Der Katzensteg (1890) failed to bring a immature creator when much recognition as his foremost drama Die Ehre (1889), which inaugurated the freshly time period in the history of the German stage.

Of his more dramas a virtually all successful were:

Sodoms Ende (1891) Die Heimat (1893) Die Schmetterlingsschlacht (1894) Das Gluck im Winkel (1895) Morituri (1896) Johannes (1898) Die drei Reiherfedern (1899) Johannesfeuer (1900) Es lebe coney Leben! (1902) Five hundred Sturmgeselle Sokrates (1903) Stein unter Steinen (1905).

Sudermann is too andy skinner of the right social novel, Es war (1904), which, such as Frau Sorge & Der Katzensteg, has been translated into English.

Look at W Kawerau, Hermann Sudermann (1897); H Landsberg, Hermann Sudermann (1902); H Jung, Hermann Sudermann (1902); H Schoen, Hermann Sudermann, poete dramatique et romancier (1905); & We Axelrod, Hermann Sudermann (1907).

This entry was originally from either a 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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