Heinrich Leopold Wagner's play Die
Kindermörderin [The Child Murderess, 1776] is
one of the more important examples of bürgerliches Trauerspiel (domestic tragedy),
especially because of its controversial reception history that
sheds light on the German literary scene in the 1770s. Printed
anonymously in the same year that two other Sturm und Drang tragedies were published – J. M.
R. Lenz' Die Soldaten [The
Soldiers] and F. M. Klinger's Die
Zwillinge [The Twins] – Die Kindermörderin gave rise to half a dozen
reprints and a …
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Citation:
Hoffmeister, Gerhart. "Die Kindermörderin". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 30 April 2007 [https://staging.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=21644, accessed 26 April 2024.]
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