!!!Bruckner, Ferdinand eigentlich Theodor Tagger

b. Vienna, Aug. 26, 1891, 
d. Berlin (Germany), Dec. 5, 1958, dramatist and poet. 1923 founded 
the Renaissance Theater in Berlin, which he headed until 1927; 1933 
returned to Vienna, 1936 emigrated to the USA; from 1951 in Berlin. B. 
started as a radical expressionist but later turned to the markedly 
realistic psychological drama using the pen name "F.B.", became an 
exponent of neorealism. In his last years wrote dramas in verse form.

!Works
Dramas: Krankheit der Jugend, 1926; Die Verbrecher, 1928; 
Elisabeth von England, 1930; Timon, 1932; Die Rassen, 1933; Napoleon 
I., 1937; Simon Bolivar, 1945; Die Befreiten, 1945; Denn seine Zeit 
ist kurz, 1945; Faehrten, 1948; Pyrrhus und Andromache, 1952; Der Tod 
einer Puppe, 1956; Der Kampf mit dem Engel, 1956; Das irdene 
Waegelchen, 1957. - Poetry, translations.

!Literature
C. Lehfeldt, Der Dramatiker F. B., 1975; D. Engelhardt, F. 
B. als Kritiker seiner Zeit, doctoral thesis, Aachen 1984.



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