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Harden’s significance for the German theater began when he left the stage to become a writer. His talent for writing was conveniently discovered in the declining days of his theatrical career, when it had become clear to him that his successes as an actor would be limited. From an incomplete correspondence it appears certain that Harden’s first literary venture was an essay concerning the theater which he sent for approval to the writer and theater director Ludwig Barnay in the late spring of 1887.1 The steps in his transition to journalism are no longer to be followed; but by May, 1888, he had left the stage and was beginning to make his living as a writer.
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Barnay to Harden, May 6, 1887; June 7, 1887, ( Bundesarchiv, Koblenz) “Nachlass Harden.” Hereafter cited as “Nachlass.”
Felix Saiten, “Hardens Köpfe,” Deutsche Montagszeitung, Oct. 3, 1910.
Julius Bab, “Die Lebenden,” Das deutsche Drama,ed. Robert Arnold (Munich, 1925), pp. 653ff.; Arthur Eloesser, Modern German Literature,trans. by Catherine A. Phillips (New York, 1935), pp. 41ff., 57f
Arno Holz, Die Kunst, ihr Wesen und ihre Gesetze (Berlin, 1891), p. 124.
Das Magazin für Litteratur,April 5, 1890, p. 211.
Harden, Literatur und Theater (Berlin, 1896), p. 167.
M Gravier, “Strindberg et le Théatre naturaliste en Allemagne,” I, Etudes Germaniques,Avril—Juin (1947), p. 211.
Harden, Kampfgenosse Sudermann (Berlin, 1903), p. 19.
Frank Wedekind to Harden, Jan. 18, 1906, in “Nachlass.”
Wedekind to Harden, April 26, 1912, Ibid
Hermann Sudermann, Verrohung in der Theaterkritik (Berlin, 1902), p. 11.
Hermann Bahr, Reinhardt, et al, Maximilian Harden: Zum 60. Geburtstag (Berlin, 1921), p. 28.
Max Reinhardt to Harden, Oct. 1, 1911, Ibid
Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger, May 10, 1914. E.S. in letters to and conversations with the author.
Erich Reiss to Harden, Nov. 30, 1916, in “Nachlass.”
Felix Holländer to Harden, Aug. 1, 1916, Ibid A similar letter from Holländer to Harden, March 13, 1913, in E.S. Papers.
Arthur Kahane, “Der Apostata,” Berliner Tageblatt, Nov. 7, 1927.
Harden, An die Abonnenten der Zukunft (Vertrauliche Mittheilung),Dec. 30, 1915, p. 2.
Karl Kraus, “Erlösergeburttaggabe,” Die Fackel,March, 1921, p. 15.
Winthrop H. Root, German Criticism of Zola 1875–1893 (New York, 1931), pp. 73 f., 96.
Hedwig Dohm to Harden, Oct. 18, 1912, in “Nachlass.”
Incomplete accounts of the Lindau—Schabelsky affair are to be found in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung,Nov. 6, 1927, and Das Kleine Journal [Vienna], Nov.
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Young, H.F. (1959). Literature and the Theater. In: Maximilian Harden. International Scholars Forum, vol 11. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-2457-5_3
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