3. BIOGRAPHY
(Hannover,1864-Munich,1918)German dramatist,precursor of
Expressionism.The son of a doctor who spent ten years serving the
Sultan of Turkey and a Californian environment.He began studying
German at Lausanne and law munich,but abandoned both.
In his busy life,particularly until came the theatrical success,in
1904,was,among other things,advertising manager of a company in
zurich,secretary of a circus,secretary of a the painter,sculptor and
forger Danish willy Gretor.Later he worked as an actor and appeared in
several cabarets as lute.
4. Its central theme is the liberation of sensual love in struggle against
bourgeois conventions and false morality,enemy of the flesh
He exerted a great influence on Brecht.
7. THE AWAKENING
The years that are gone seem like dreams-if one might go on sleeping
and dreaming-but to wake up and find-oh! wall! perhaps it is better to
wake up alten all, ecie to suffe rather than rather than to reamain a
dupe to ilusion all one´s life.
