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Christian Dietrich Grabbe (German playwright)

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Grabbe, Christian Dietrich
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Date of birth
1801-12-11
Place of birth
Detmold
Date of death
1836-09-12
Place of death
Detmold

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Christian Dietrich Grabbe (11 December 1801 – 12 September 1836) was a German dramatist of the Vormärz era. He wrote many historical plays conceiving a disillusioned and pessimistic world view, with some shrill scenes. Heinrich Heine saw him as one of Germany's foremost dramatists, calling him "a drunken Shakespeare" and Sigmund Freud described Grabbe as "an original and rather peculiar poet."

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