Frank Wedekind - Other plays

Playwright, born in Hanover, NC Germany. He worked in business and journalism, before becoming a cabaret performer, playwright, and producer. He is best known for his unconventional tragedies, in which he anticipated the Theatre of the Absurd: Erdgeist (1895, Earth Spirit), Frühlings Erwachen (1891, Spring Awakening), and Die Büchse der Pandora (1903, Pandora's Box).

Benjamin Franklin Wedekind (Hannover July 24, 1864 – Munich March 9, 1918) was a German playwright.

He had a number of jobs before working in cabaret and becoming a playwright.

His first major play, Frühlings Erwachen (Spring Awakening, 1891), which concerns sexuality and puberty among some young German students, caused a scandal, containing as it does a masturbation scene as well as a suicide. The "Lulu" plays Erdgeist (Earth Spirit, 1895) and Die Büchse der Pandora (Pandora's Box, 1904) are probably his best known pieces; the two were the basis for Alban Berg's opera Lulu, and Die Büchse der Pandora was the basis for the film Pandora's Box (1929). One of his most mysterious plays is Franziska (1910), and its subject might definitely appeal to modern-day feminists.

Other plays

Die Kammersänger (The Tenorist, 1899);