Spring Awakening (play)
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Spring Awakening is the German dramatist Frank Wedekind's first major play and a foundational work in the modern history of theatre. It was written sometime between autumn 1890 and spring 1891, but di
First edition 1891
Photograph of the finale of the original Max Reinhardt production of Spring Awakening (1906), in which Frank Wedekind himself portrayed the Masked Man (center)
Scene from the 1917 English-language premiere in New York City, starring Fania Marinoff (right)
Frank Wedekind
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Benjamin Franklin Wedekind was a German playwright. His work, which often criticizes bourgeois attitudes, is considered to anticipate expressionism and was influential in the development of epic theat
Spring Awakening (play)
…Spring Awakening (German: Frühlings Erwachen) (also translated as Spring's Awakening and The Awakening of Spring) is the German dramatist Frank Wedekind's first major play and a foundational work in the modern history of theatre. It was written sometime between autumn 1890 and spring 1891, but did not…
Frank Wedekind
Wedekind and his wife Tilly, 1910
Wedekind in 1883