Wedekind


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Wedekind

(German ˈveːdəkɪnt)
n
(Biography) Frank. 1864–1918, German dramatist, whose plays, such as The Awakening of Spring (1891) and Pandora's Box (1904), bitterly satirize the sexual repressiveness of society
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Personally I find little to be said for the moderns, but I'm going to send you Wedekind when I've done him.
It was doubtless a pity not to keep up with Wedekind or John, but some closing of the gates is inevitable after thirty, if the mind itself is to become a creative power.
A selection of everyday items - a water bottle, a cork, a straw and chopsticks - was used to demonstrate how to create experiences of excitement and adventure for children by the final speaker at the conference, Professor Doctor Hartmut Wedekind, Professor of Early Childhood Education at the ASH Berlin and Scientific Director of the Learning and Research Center for Children, HELLEUM.
INVERSNAID One additional pole in 11Kv overhead line near Loch Arklet for Carl Wedekind.
It is a rock musical that opened on Broadway in 2006 as an adaptation of an 1891 play written by Frank Wedekind that was set in Victorian-era Germany.
One of the installations is behind the main-floor bar: the whiskey wall by local woodworker Mark Wedekind, who owns Blackstone Design (blackstonedesign.com), a hand-shaped custom furniture business.
Still, this new version of the 2006 musical, adapted from Frank Wedekind's audacious and controversial 1891 German play about adolescent sexuality and adult angst, features full-out numbers--performers sign Steven Sater's impassioned lyrics in unison and move around the stage to Duncan Sheik's catchy rock music in complex patterns, all without counting.
In addition to giving a fresh airing to this controversial adaptation of Frank Wedekind's classic, Spring Awakening is also giving richly deserved exposure to a number of amazing Deaf actors, and--I was shocked to learn--Broadway's first wheelchair-using disabled actor, Ali Stroker.
The method works intuitively, considering that much of Steven Sater's book and lyrics--adapted from German writer Frank Wedekind's controversial 1891 play--were projections of the teen characters' interior angst to begin with.
Jonathan Franzen has translated"Spring Awakening," by the fin-de-si'e8cle German dramatist Frank Wedekind, and the essays of Viennese satirist Karl Kraus.