Excerpt from Hannele: A Dream Poem

Gerhart Hauptmann was born on November 15,1862 at Ober Salzbrunn in Silesia. In dedicating De Waber (The Weavers) to his father, he wrote: "The germ of this drama lay in what yon have told me of the life of my grandfather, who in his young days sat at the loom, a poor weaver, like those here depicted" How the family rose in the world, I do not know. In another of his plays, Vor Sonnenaufgang (Before Sunrise), Hauptmann has drawn a dismal picture of the raw barbarism of the peasant proprietors in a certain Silesian district, who have been suddenly enriched by the discovery of coal-seams in their land; but the weavers would probably have little enough share in the treasure-trove. Be this as it may, Hauptmann"s father, at the time of his birth, was a hotel-keeper in a small watering-place.

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