Oskar Jerschke was a German playwright and collaborator of Arno Holz

Arno Holz

Arno Holz was a German naturalist poet and dramatist. He is best known for his poetry collection Phantasus .-Life and Works:...

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He was the sone of a military engineer and raised in the rectory of his Uncle until his father settled in Strassburg. He studied law in Strassburg and Berlin, settling in Strassburg as an attorney.

After the First World War, when Alsace and Strassburg came under French control, he was expelled to Berlin. There he published the tragicomedy Traumulus (the Dreamer) with his childhood friend Arno Holz

Arno Holz

Arno Holz was a German naturalist poet and dramatist. He is best known for his poetry collection Phantasus .-Life and Works:...

 in 1905. The work was a great success and film version was made in 1936 directed by Carl Froelich

Carl Froelich

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 and starring Emil Jannings

Emil Jannings

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Selected Works

• Deutsche Weisen (1884) with Arno Holz
• Traumulus (1905) with Arno Holz
• Gaudeamus! A festival play for the 350th jubilee of the University of Jena (1908), with Arno Holz
• Die Perle der Antillen, Comedy (1909) with Arno Holz
• Büxl, Comedy (1911) with Arno Holz
• Mein deutsches Vaterland (1916)

External links

• poems at zgedichte.de (German)