Background
Hans was born on December 17, 1894, in Stellingen, Eimsbüttel, Germany.
Hans was born on December 17, 1894, in Stellingen, Eimsbüttel, Germany.
As a playwright, he wrote: Pastor Ephraim Magnus (1917), which The Cambridge Guide to Theatre describes as a nihilistic, Expressionist play "stuffed with perversities and sadomasochistic motifs". Coronation of Richard III (1922. "equally lurid"); and a version of Medea (1926).
Later works include the novel Perrudja, an unfinished trilogy of novels River without Banks (Fluss ohne Ufer), the drama Thomas Chatterton (1955. Staged by Gustaf Gründgens in 1956), and the novella The Night of Lead. Erwin Piscator staged Jahnn's The Dusty Rainbow (Der staubige Regenbogen) in 1961.
Jahnn was also a music publisher, focusing on 17th-century organ music. He was a contemporary of organ-builder Rudolf von Beckerath.
(The Living Are Few, The Dead Many by Hans Henny Jahnn,)
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