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It is a phenomenon of literature that it sometimes produces twin artists who dominate their period as, for example, Lope de Vega and Calderón in Spain, Racine and Corneille in France, Goethe and Schiller in Germany. In German Expressionist drama Toller and Kaiser tower over their contemporaries and, although the movement had been prepared by others, it was they who established drama firmly within the Expressionist movement.
‘I live for Georg Kaiser.’ G. Kaiser
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Quoted in G. M. Valk, ‘Georg Kaiser: Ansätze zu einer Biographie’, Georg Kaiser, ed. A. Arnold (Stuttgart: Ernst Klett, 1980) p. 8.
Georg Kaiser, Briefe, ed. G. M. Valk (Frankfurt: Propyläen Verlag, 1980) p. 180.
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Benson, R. (1984). Georg Kaiser: Life and Art. In: German Expressionist Drama. Macmillan Modern Dramatists. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-17363-1_5
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