
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.
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.
Subjects

1862–1946
A major voice in German drama, he turned the struggles of ordinary people into powerful, unforgettable plays. Best known for works like Before Sunrise and The Weavers, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1912.
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