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Max Bernstein was a German

Germans

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art and theatre critic

Critic

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and author

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. He was the husband of Elsa Bernstein

Elsa Bernstein

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The Salon Bernstein

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, Henrik Ibsen

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, Paul Heyse, Gerhart Hauptmann

Gerhart Hauptmann

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, Thomas Mann

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, Ludwig Ganghofer

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, Ludwig Thoma

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, Frank Wedekind

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, Hugo von Hofmannsthal

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, Rainer Maria Rilke

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, Max Halbe

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, Hermann Sudermann

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, Otto Brahm

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, Ricarda Huch

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, Eduard von Keyserling

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, Georg Hirth

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, Erich Mühsam

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, Klabund

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, Franziska Von Reventlow, Annette Kolb

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, Tilla Durieux

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, Richard Strauss

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, Engelbert Humperdinck

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, Bruno Walter

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, Franz von Stuck, Olaf Gulbransson

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, Friedrich August von Kaulbach

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, Maximilian Harden

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, and Max Weber

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Works

Der kleine Hydriot (art critic, 1884)
Münchener Bunte Mappe (anthology
Anthology
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, 1884)
Kleine Geschichten (stories, 1888)
Münchener Jahresausstellung von Kunstwerken aller Nationen (1889)
Blau (comedy, 1894)
D’ Mali (play, 1903)
Narrische Leut’ (stories, 1904)
Herthas Hochzeit (comedy, 1907)
Die Sünde (comedy, 1909)
Der gute Vogel (comedy, 1913)
Herrenrecht (play, 1916)
Gesindel (play, 1921)
Theaterbriefe (critiques in the Münchner Neueste Nachrichten)

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