Carl and Gerhart Hauptmann. The challenging relationship of the brothers. My article is based on my dissertation entitled Transcription and commentary on Maria Rohne’s letters adressed to Carl Hauptmann in the years 1907-1921. The dissertation was prepared as a part of German-Polish project aiming to research the literary legacy of Carl Hauptmann. In my article I’m focusing on the complex and challenging relationship of Carl and Gerhart Hauptmann. Moreover, special attention is drawn to the period of Carl and Gerhart Hauptmann’s childhood and schooldays, then career decisions and their literary work. The article attempts to analyse the entire life of Carl and Gerhart Hauptmann; still, the main emphasis is placed on their difficult relations. The article aim to familiarise readers with Gehart and Carl Hauptmann, whose work has remained overshadowed by the popularity of the younger brother – Gerhart Hauptmann.
A portrait of Anna Teichmüller – Carl Hauptmanns Muse This text presents the most important information from the biography of the german composer Anna Teichmüller (born 1861). The reconstruction is based on her letters to Carl Hauptmann from the years 1899–1920. Mutual inspiration of the two artists, their everyday life with all its difficulties or the unpublished facts from the life of Anna Teichmüller are only examples of topics that can be found in the correspondence.
This article provides the most important information about the edition of the letters of the German composer Anna Teichmüller (1862-1940) and Martha Hauptmann (1862–1939), first wife of Carl Hauptmann, German writer in Lower Silesia at the turn of the 20th century, who changed his scientific career into the artistic life in the colony of artists in Szklarska Poręba (Schreiberhau). The correspondence between both women is a proof of their mutual relationship full of love and friendship, gradually transformed into jealousy and pain. The analyse of the letters compared with Martha Hauptmann’s memories shows a new until now not described image of Anna Teichmüller in the specialist literature.
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