Playwright, novelist, and critic, born in Linz, N Austria. He studied in Vienna and Berlin, and took a leading part in the Naturalism and Expressionism of the Habsburg empire period. He published social novels and comedies, and was appointed manager of the Deutsches Theater, Berlin (1903), and of the Burgtheater, Vienna (1918).
Hermann Bahr (July 19, 1863 - January 15, 1934) was an Austrian writer, playwright, director, and critic.
From 1906-1907, he worked as a director with Max Reinhardt at the German Theater in Berlin, and starting in 1918 he was a dramaturge with the Vienna Burgtheater. Bahr's association with the
coffeehouse literati made him one of the main targets of Karl Kraus's newspaper Die Fackel (The Torch) after Kraus's falling out with the group.
Selected Fiction
Plays
The New People (
Die neuen Menschen - 1887)
The Mother (
Die Mutter - 1891)
Das Tschaperl (1897)
Der Star (1899)
Wienerinnen (1900)
Der
Krampus (1902)
Ringelspiel (1907)
The Concert (
Das Konzert - 1909)
The Children (
Die Kinder - 1911)
Das Prinzip (1912)
Der Querulant (1914)
The Master (
Der Meister - 1914)
Short stories and novellas
The School of Love (
Die gute Schule. Seelenstände - 1890)
Fin de siècle (1891)
Die Rahl (1908)
O Mensch (1910)
Österreich in Ewigkeit (1929)
Selected Nonfiction
Essays
Zur Kritik der Moderne (1890)
Die Überwindung des Naturalismus (1891)
Symbolisten (1894)
Wiener Theater (1899)
Frauenrecht (1912) eLibrary Austria Project
(elib austria full text)
Inventur (1912)
Expressionismus (1916)
Burgtheater (1920)
Books
Theater (1897)
Drut (1909)
Himmelfahrt (1916)
Die Rotte Korahs (1919)
Self-Portrait (
Selbstbildnis - 1923), an autobiography
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