Sudermann, Hermann

Sudermann, Hermann

▪ German writer

born Sept. 30, 1857, Matziken, East Prussia [now in Lithuania]
died Nov. 21, 1928, Berlin, Ger.
 one of the leading writers of the German naturalist movement.

      Though first apprenticed to a chemist, Sudermann was eventually able to attend the University of Königsberg. After a short period as a tutor in Berlin, he worked as a journalist, then turned to writing novels. Frau Sorge (1887; Dame Care), dealing with the growing up of a sensitive youth, and Der Katzensteg (1889; Regina) are the best known of his early novels. He won renown, however, with his plays. Die Ehre (Eng. trans., What Money Cannot Buy), first performed in Berlin on Nov. 27, 1889, was a milestone in the naturalist movement, although to later critics it seemed a rather trite and slick treatment of class conflicts in Berlin. Heimat (performed 1893; Eng. trans., Magda) carried his fame throughout the world. It portrays the conflicts of Magda, a celebrated opera singer who returns to confront her past in the narrow, provincial hometown that she left in disgrace.

      Sudermann's subsequent problem plays, notably Glück im Winkel (1895; The Vale of Content), Morituri (1896), Es lebe das Leben! (1902; The Joy of Living), and Der gute Ruf (1913; A Good Reputation), were almost all successful on the stage of his time, but, because his work is often sentimental and his criticism of contemporary society—a recurrent motif—is generally considered to be superficial, his plays are seldom staged today.

      Among Sudermann's other works, the novel Das hohe Lied (1908; The Song of Songs), a sympathetic study of the downward progress of a seduced girl, and Litauische Geschichten (1917; The Excursion to Tilsit), a collection of stories dealing with the simple villagers of his native region, are notable. Das Bilderbuch meiner Jugend (1922; The Book of My Youth) is a vivid account of his early years in East Prussia.

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