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Hans Henny Jahnn

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in Germany

December 17, 1894

Died

November 29, 1959

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Hans Henny Jahnn (17 December 1894, Stellingen – 29 November 1959, Hamburg) was a German playwright, novelist, and organ-builder.
As a playwright, he wrote: Pastor Ephraim Magnus (1917), which The Cambridge Guide to Theatre describes as a nihilistic, Expressionist play "stuffed with perversities and sado-masochistic motifs"; Coronation of Richard III (1922; "equally lurid"); and a version of Medea (1926). Later works include the novel Perrudja, an unfinished trilogy of novels River without Banks (Fluss ohne Ufer), the drama Thomas Chatterton (1955; staged by Gustaf Gründgens in 1956),[1] and the novella The Night of Lead. Erwin Piscator staged Jahnn's The Dusty Rainbow (Der staubige Regenbogen) in 1961.
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	The Ship by Hans Henny Jahnn, Catherine Hutter (Translator) 4.09 avg rating — 228 ratings — published 1949 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Night of Lead by Hans Henny Jahnn, Malcolm Green (Translator) 3.99 avg rating — 130 ratings — published 1956 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Living Are Few, the Dead Many: Selected Works of Hans Henny Jahnn by Hans Henny Jahnn, Malcolm R. Green (Translator) 4.29 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Medea 3.40 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 1926 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Thirteen Uncanny Stories by Hans Henny Jahnn, Gerda Jordan (Translator) 4.05 avg rating — 39 ratings — published 1954 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Perrudja 4.24 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 1929 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Das Holzschiff / Die Niederschrift des Gustav Anias Horn I 4.47 avg rating — 30 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Die Niederschrift des Gustav Anias Horn II by Hans Henny Jahnn, Ulrich Bitz (Editor), Uwe Schweikert (Editor) 4.73 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1949 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fluß ohne Ufer 4.78 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1961 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Это настигнет каждого by Hans Henny Jahnn, Т. Баскакова (Translator) 4.20 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1968 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Ich war so im Vorgefühl höchster Erfüllungen, dass ich keinen Wunsch hatte. Als der Wunsch kam, vielleicht nach einer Stunde erst, war der schönste Augenblick vorüber”
― Hans Henny Jahnn

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“Your thighs are soft like the nostrils of a mule.
The yellow of saffron plays about your breasts.
The sapphire pen of night has cleansed blue your white most blue.
I'd be made of stone if I did not know your hidden behests.”
― Hans Henny Jahnn, The Living Are Few, the Dead Many: Selected Works of Hans Henny Jahnn

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“As a writer I am preoccupied with the primeval tragedy of how the individual is overwhelmed by his environment.”
― Hans Henny Jahnn

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