Vor Sonnenaufgang: Soziales Drama

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Vor Sonnenaufgang: Soziales Drama

by Gerhart Hauptmann

DE·~2 hours·1 chapter

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Vor Sonnenaufgang

2:57:33

Description

In a modest country house where polished carpets mask an austere farm, a tangled web of relationships begins to surface. The proprietor, a landowner named Krause, presides over a household populated by his second wife, their children, and a host of servants whose lives intersect in uneasy harmony. When the sharply dressed engineer Hoffmann arrives with his visitor, the confident yet unrefined Loth, the fragile veneer of civility is quickly tested.

A sudden, angry entrance by a weather‑worn farmwoman shatters the calm, exposing the simmering resentments that lie beneath the surface. As dialogue crackles with sharp humor and underlying tension, the play sketches the clash between emerging modern ambitions and the stubborn pull of rural tradition. Listeners are drawn into a vivid portrait of a society in transition, where personal pride, class disparity, and the yearning for respect collide in a compelling social drama.

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Language

de

Duration

~2 hours (170K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Peter Becker, Jens Sadowski, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive.

Release date

2016-06-02

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

Gerhart Hauptmann

Gerhart Hauptmann

1862–1946

A Nobel Prize-winning German writer, he helped bring modern drama to life with plays that looked hard at ordinary people, social conflict, and human struggle. His work moved from naturalism into symbolism and myth, giving his writing both realism and reach.

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