24-Jan | Pastor Hall by Ernst Toller has it's German premier at The Deutches Theatre, Berlin.

THEATRE
Alain und Elise (Georg Kaiser) in Switzerland
Pastor Hall (Ernst Toller) is published in United States, London
The Soldier Tanaka (Georg Kaiser) in Switzerland 

TIMELINE
1-Apr | Global pandemic ends

• Draw the Fires by Ernst Toller

• Antonin Artaud lists Woyczek in his first Theatre of Cruelty manifesto 

TIMELINE
Georg Kaiser flees Nazi leadership, going into exile in Switzerland.

No More Peace by Ernst Toller is produced at the Gate Theatre, London, England.

TIMELINE

16-Aug | Olympics end.

1-Aug | Summer Olympics begin in Berlin, Germany. Film introduced Aryan internationally.

16-Feb | Winter Olympics end.

6-Feb | Winter Olympics begin in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

• American President Franklin D Roosevelt's Great New Deal (33-39) establishes The Federal Theatre Project in the United States.

• Der Silbersee by Georg Kaiser with Kurt Weill (opera)

• Georg Kaiser's plays are banned

TIMELINE

13-MAR | Goebbels named head of new Propaganda Ministry

4-FEB | German President Hindenberg enacts the "Decree for the Protection of People and State" which allows book bans.

JAN | Hitler comes to power

PLAYS WRITTEN
Draw the Fires by Ernst Toller

MEDICAL FIELD
Civilization and Discontents, Sigmund Freud

FILM
All Quiet on the Western Front film premiere draws violent protests led by Nazi stormtroopers and is banned from further performance after one week.

TIMELINE

20-Sept: Mississippi by Georg Kaiser (premier in 9 German cities)

18-Feb: Der Silbersee (The Silverlake) by Georg Kaiser

• Machinal by Sophie Treadwell premieres at Plymouth Theatre, Broadway, New York

• Berlin, Last Edition (Radio play) by Ernst Toller 

• Bourgeois Bliebt Bourgeois (Bourgeois Stays Bourgeois) by Ernst Toller, Walter Hasenclever, and Kesten

24-Nov | Die Lederköpfe (The Leatherheads) by Georg Kaiser at the Neues Theatre in Frankfurt 

?-Jan | Die Ent. Wotan (Wotan Unbound) by Ernst Toller premiers in Prague

26-Feb | Die Ent. Wotan (Wotan Unbound) by Ernst Toller premieres in Berlin

16-Nov | Die Ent. Wotan (Wotan Unbound) premiers at Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow

3-Aug | The Awakening (a mass play) by Ernst Toller performed at Trade Union Festival, Leipzig

15-Jul | Toller released from prison one day early, and secretly expelled from Bavaria

• The Machine Wreckers by Ernst Toller is presented

• Vatermord (Patricide) by Arnolt Bronnen is presented and causes riots in the theatre that spilled out on to the street requiring police intervention.

• Scenario: Pictures from the French Revolution by Ernst Toller 

19-SEPT | Hinkemann by Ernst Toller is presented at the Alles Theatre, Leipzig, Germany. Director: Alwin Krohocher. Over 50 performances.

UNITED STATES

• Gringo by Sophie Treadwell premieres in New York, NY

PLAYS WRITTEN

• Gas II by Georg Kaiser

• Masse Mensch (Mass Human) by Ernst Toller

FILM
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
From Morn 'till Midnight | The Cashier: Ernst Deutsch

• Gas by Georg Kaiser is presented in Germany

PLAYS WRITTEN

• Baal by Bertolt Brecht

• The Immortal One by Ival Goll is written

• Mystery Bouffee by Vladimir Mayakovsky is writeen in Moscow

• Orpheus and Eurydike by Oskar Kokoscha is written

November 11: World War I ends

November 9: The November Revolution

PLAYS WRITTEN

• Vatermord (Patricide) by Arnolt Bronnen

"Despite the facts that Expressionist plays were published and widely read in 1912, only a few were physically enacted before 1917." (Mel Gordon, Expressionist Texts, XX)

PLAYS INCLUDE...

• Der Bettler (The Beggar) by Reinhard Sorge

• Von Morgens Bit Mitternachts (From Morn to Midnight) by Georg Kaiser is written

THEATRE
The Lulu Plays by Frank Wedekind

MEDICAL FIELD
Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious is published by Sigmund Freud in Austria.

SCIENCE
The Theory of Relativity by Albert Einstein

PLAYS WRITTEN
A Dream Play by August Strindberg

PLAYS PUBLISHED
Die Busche der Pandora (Pandora's Box) by Frank Wedekind

THEATRE
Max Reinhardt opens Kleines Theater, Berlin, Germany

• Danton's Death (Bucher) premiered with 1 matinee at Neue Freie Volksbuhne, Berlin.

• Erdgeist (Earth Spirit) produced by Max Reinhardt at the Kleines Theater, Berlin, Germany.

PLAYS
A Dream Play by August Strindberg premieres at the Royal Dramatic Theatre, Stockholm. Strindberg was unhappy with this production.

SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS
Interpretation of Dreams by Sigmund Freud

• To Damascus by August Strindberg

PRODUCED

• Erdgeist (Earth Spirit) by Frank Wedekind produced. Wedekind performed in the play.

PUBLISHED

• Studies of Hysteria by Sigmund Freud (medical text) published in Austria.

WRITTEN

• Erdgeist (Earth Spirit) by Frank Wedekind

PUBLISHED

• 4-JAN: Lay Down Your Arms (Die Waffen Nieder) by Albert Fried (pacifist journal publication begins) | The journal was named after Bertha von Sutter's novel of the same name.

• Degeneration, by Max Nordau (medical publication) | Nordau claims artists who are degenerate are incurably mentally ill.

• Electricity in theatres

• The Birth of Tragedy by Fredrich Nietzsche