24-Jan | Pastor Hall by Ernst Toller | German premier| The Deutches Theatre, Berlin
The Raft of the Medusa by Georg Kaiser
2-Sept | World War II ends (with Japan's formal surrender)
4-Jun | Georg Kaiser dies in exile (Switzerland)
Pastor Hall is published in United States, London
adapted from the play written by Ernst Toller
Pastor Hall by Ernst Toller is rejected for performance in New York by Dramatists Guild
1-Sept | World War II begins
1-May | Ernst Toller dies in exile (New York, NY)
Draw the Fires by Ernst Toller
Georg Kaiser goes into Exile in Switzerland
The Blind Goddess by Ernst Toller premiere in London, England
13-MAR | Goebbels named head of new Propaganda Ministry
JAN | Hitler comes to power
Miracle in America by Ernst Toller and Kesten
Civilization and Discontents, Sigmund Freud
Draw the Fires by Ernst Toller
All Quiet on the Western Front film premiere draws violent protests led by Nazi stormtroopers and is banned from further performance after one week.
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 TollerÂ
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 FrankfurtÂ
Experiences with Justice by Ernst Toller
Hoppla, wir Leben! (Hurrah, we Live!) by Ernst Toller - also translated as Hoppla, Such is Life!
?-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
Von Morgens bis Mitternachts (From Morn 'till Midnight) by Georg Kaiser at Gate Theatre, London, England
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
Toller writing Wotan Unbound
Georg Kaiser served a short sentence in prison for stealing breadÂ
The Machine Wreckers by Ernst Toller is presented
Methusalem by Yvan Goll is written
Masse Mensch (Mass Man) by Ernst Toller i
13-SEPT | Transfiguration at The Tribüne, Berlin
Playwright: Ernst Toller
Director: Karl HeinzMartin
Set Design: Robert Neppach
Fredrich: Fritz Kortner
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
July 28: Start of World War I
"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
Die Aktion Journal is founded by Franz Pfembert
PLAYS INCLUDE...
Sancta Susanna by August Stramm
Spring Awakening is performed in Berlin
Jokes and their Relation to the Unconscious by Sigmund Freud
1st taxis in Berlin
A Dream Play by August Strindberg
The Psychopathology of Everyday Life by Sigmund Freud
Crimes and Crimes by August Strindberg
Studies of Hysteria by Sigmund Freud
by Edvard Munch
Degeneration, by Max Nordau
Spring's Awakening is written by Frank Wedekind
Electricity in theatres
Invention of Lightbulb