Word: sudermann
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...work consists entirely in reading several short or abridged works of a few of the great writers of the last century, among them Sudermann. Hebbel, and Scheffel, and incidentally the reading is nearly always lively and interesting. The dramatic poem "Na than der Weise" by Lessing provides a pleasant interlude between prose readings, and the year is agreeably rounded off with an anthology consisting of prose, poetic, and dramatic selections of major and minor German writers from Novalis to Nietache. A reading period completes the outline...
...Song of Songs (Paramount), impaired somewhat by the glum reverence with which the cinema customarily treats the classics, is a pictorially beautiful adaptation of Hermann Sudermann's famed novel. It shows Marlene Dietrich, sinning as usual, but not without good reason. She is Lily Czepanek, a Berlin model who suffers successively from associations with a drunken, tyrannical aunt, a faithless lover, a brutish husband and a riding master...