Max Halbe was a German dramatist and main exponent of Naturalism.
10 Facts About Max Halbe
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Max Halbe was a member of an old family of peasants who had immigrated two centuries earlier from Westphalia.
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Max Halbe obtained his doctorate at the University of Munich in 1888.
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In both Berlin and Munich, Max Halbe became acquainted with the leaders of the new naturalistic movement in German literature, and became associated with the Free Stage movement in 1889.
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Max Halbe was strongly influenced by the association with, and the works of, Johannes Schlaf and Arno Holt.
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Max Halbe was not entirely in accord with the Freie Buhne, and with consistent naturalism, as the latter deviated considerably from his own tendencies.
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Max Halbe published Eisgang in 1892, and then his primary work, Jugend, in 1893, which was, after Hauptmann's Die Weber, the most successful contemporary stage play in Germany.
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Max Halbe decided to move to the rural atmosphere of Kreuzlingen, on Lake Constance, in 1894.
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In 1895 Max Halbe went to Munich again, where, with Josef Ruederer, he founded the Intimate Theater for Dramatic Experiments, in which writers and poets appeared on the stage, and was a co-founder of Munich Popular Theatre.
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Max Halbe died in the age of 79 at his manor house in Neuotting, Bavaria.