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)

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• Pastor Hall is published in United States, London

• 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 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 

• 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 bread 

• The Machine Wreckers by Ernst Toller is presented

• Methusalem by Yvan Goll is written

• Masse Mensch (Mass Man) by Ernst Toller i

• 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

• Degeneration, by Max Nordau

• Spring's Awakening is written by Frank Wedekind

• Electricity in theatres

• Invention of Lightbulb