01778cam a22003133u 4500 52952 UtSlPG 20260610134223.0 m cr n 260607r2016||||utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG de iso639-1 PT Hauptmann, Gerhart, 1862-1946 Die Ratten: Berliner Tragikomödie Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2016 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rats_(play) Wikipedia page about this book: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_Ratten Release date is 2016-09-01 Produced by Peter Becker, Jens Sadowski, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive. "Die Ratten: Berliner Tragikomödie" by Gerhart Hauptmann is a drama premiered in 1911. Set in a decaying Berlin tenement, the play interweaves two contrasting stories: a desperate cleaning woman who buys a baby to replace her dead child, spiraling into tragedy when the birth mother has regrets, and a pompous theater director who preaches classical ideals while betraying them. This naturalist work critiques wilhelminian society by contrasting the existential struggles of the poor with the hollow pretensions of the bourgeoisie. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Original publication data not identified German drama https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/52952 93786 93786