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He is so absolutely unconventional in his bearing and speech as to seem amateurish, yet he secures with his naturalism some poignant effects. I shan't soon forget his Karl Hetman, the visionary reformer. Wedekind, like Heine, has the faculty of a cynical, a consuming self-irony. He is said to be admirable in Der Kammersänger.
He wrote: "In German literature to-day there is nothing as vile as the art of Frank Wedekind." Fearing this sparkling gem of criticism might escape the notice of posterity, Wedekind printed it as a sort of motto to his beautiful poetic play , Such Is Life. However, the truth is that our poet is often disconcerting.
There is a hellish racket for a while, and then when the dust clears away you discern the revolutionist calmly ensconced in the seats of the bygone mighty and passionately preaching from the open window his version of New Life; he is become reformer himself and would save a perishing race spiritually speaking from damnation by the gospel of beauty, by shattering the shackles of love especially the latter; love to be love must be free, preaches Wedekind; love is still in the swaddling clothes of Oriental prejudice.
Without the hopeless misogyny of the Swede, without his pessimism, Wedekind is quite as drastic. And the realism of the Antoine Theatre should not be omitted. He exhibits in his menagerie of types many of them new in the theatre a striking collection of wild animals.
He lived by his wits in Paris and London, learned two languages, met that underworld which later was to figure in his vital dramatic pictures, wrote advertisements for a canned soup in Hauptmann's early play, Friedensfest, Wedekind is said to figure as Robert, who is a réclame agent was attached to circuses, variety theatres, and fairs, was an actor in tingletangles, cabarets, and saw life on its seamiest side, whether in Germany, Austria, France, or England.
For a dramatist all is grist that makes revolve the sails of his advertising mill, and as there is nothing as lucrative as notoriety, Wedekind must have been happy. He is a hard hitter and dearly loves a fight a Hibernian trait and his pen was soon transformed into a club, with which he rained blows on the ribs of his adversaries.
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