Biography
Gerhart Hauptmann
Real name: Gerhart Hauptmann
German dramatist and novelist, born 15 November 1862 in Obersalzbrunn, Silesia, Prussia (today Szczawno-Zdrój, Poland) and died 6 June 1946 in Agnetendorf (today Jagniątków), Poland. He was awarded with the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1912.