What is german tragic drama?

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Walter Benjamin - Thought - The Origin of German Tragic Drama
... Ursprung des deutschen Trauerspiels (The Origin of German Tragic Drama, 1928), is a critical study of German baroque drama, as well as the political and cultural climate of ... Professor Schultz of University of Frankfurt found The Origin of German Tragic Drama inappropriate for his Germanistik department (Department of German Language and ... heeded the advice, and three years later, in 1928, he published The Origin of German Tragic Drama as a book ...
Walter Benjamin - Life
... were born to a wealthy business family of assimilated Ashkenazi Jews in the Berlin of the German Empire (1871–1918) ... Benjamin wrote about the 18th-century Romantic German poet Friedrich Hölderlin (1770–1843) ... essay Begriff der Kunstkritik in der Deutschen Romantik (The Concept of Criticism in German Romanticism) ...

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