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Excerpt from Hannele: A Dream Poem Gerhart Hauptmann was born on November 15, 1862 at Ober Salzbrunn in Silesia. In dedicating De Waber (The Weavers) to his father, he wrote: "The germ of this drama lay in what yon have told me of the life of my grandfather, who in his young days sat at the loom, a poor weaver, like those here depicted" How the family rose in the world, I do not know. In another of his plays, Vor Sonnenaufgang (Before Sunrise), Hauptmann has drawn a dismal picture of the raw barbarism of the peasant proprietors in a certain Silesian district, who have been suddenly enriched by the discovery of coal-seams in their land, but the weavers would probably have little enough share in the treasure-trove. Be this as it may, Hauptmann's father, at the time of his birth, was a hotel-keeper in a small watering-place. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.