!!!Bahr, Hermann

b. Linz (Upper Austria), July 19, 1863, 
d. Munich (Germany), Jan. 15, 1934, writer, brilliant essayist and 
critic, shed a new light on fin-de-siècle literary trends from 
naturalism to expressionism. One of the most important comedy-writers 
of his era. Leading theoretician of impressionism and spokesman of the 
group  Jung-Wien "Young Vienna". From 1909 married to Anna  
Bahr-Mildenburg. Studied in Vienna, Chernovtsy (Ukraine) and Berlin 
(friend of A. Holz). 1890 worked with the "Freie Buehne" theatre 
company in Berlin, from 1894 freelance writer and editor of the 
liberal weekly "Die  Zeit". 1906/07 employed as director under Max  
Reinhardt in Berlin, 1912-1918 lived in Salzburg, 1918 chief 
dramaturge of the Vienna Burgtheater, moved to Munich in 1922. His 
programmatic essays smoothed the way for new forms of writing. As a 
writer he was confronted with the many literary trends at the turn of 
the century. He encouraged this variety and his works provide a 
valuable record of Austrian ideas at the turn of the century.

!Works
Prose: Die gute Schule. Seelenstaende, 1890; Fin de 
siècle, 1891; Theater, 1897; Die Rahl, 1908; Drut, 1909; O 
Mensch, 1910; Himmelfahrt, 1916; Die Rotte Korahs, 1919; Oe. in 
Ewigkeit, 1929. - Dramas: Die neuen Menschen, 1887; Die Mutter, 1891; 
Das Tschaperl, 1897; Der Querulant, 1914. - Comedies: Wienerinnen, 
1900; Der Krampus, 1902; Der Meister, 1904; Ringelspiel, 1907; Das 
Konzert, 1909; Die Kinder, 1911; Das Prinzip, 1912. - Essays: Zur 
Kritik der Moderne, 1890; Die Ueberwindung des Naturalismus, 1891; 
Expressionismus, 1916; Tagebuecher, Skizzenbuecher und Notizhefte (5 
vols., ed. by M. Csáky, 1994ff.).

!Literature
D. G. Daviau, Der Mann von Uebermorgen, 1984; R. Farkas, 
H. B., 1989; M. Meier, Prometheus und Pandora. "Persoenlicher Mythos" 
als Schluessel zum Werk von H. B. (1863-1934), 1997.



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