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1896 - Born on December 27
- One of Wiemar Germany’s leading dramatist.
- Is best known for his satirical play The Captain form Kopenick (1930; eng. Trans., 1932).
- Earlier plats, such as Der frohliche Weinberg (The Merry Vineyard, 1925), combined folk, expressionist, and realist elements.
1939 - Escape Nazi censorship, Zuckmayer fled Germany, and later works, including the Anti-Nazi play The Devil’s General (1946; eng. Trans., 1962) and his autobiography, a part of myself (1966; eng. Trans., 1970), were written in the United States.
- In addition to novels, poems, short stories, and essay, Zuckmayer also wrote the screenplay for the film Der blaue Engel (The Blue, Angel, 1930).
1977 - Died on January 18
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Des Teufels General by Carl Zuckmayer (Paperback - Oct 7, 1998)  |
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Henndorfer Pastorale by Carl Zuckmayer (Hardcover - Sep 30, 2004) |
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The Devil's General/ Germany: Jekyll and Hyde (German Library) by Carl Zuckmayer and Sebastian Haffner and Ingrid Komar and Virginia Wurdak and Wilfrid David (Paperback - Feb 7, 2005) Usually ships in 7 to 13 days |
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A Part of Myself: Portrait of an Epoch by Carl Zuckmayer and Richard Winston and Clara Winston (Paperback - Dec 7, 1984) |
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Farm in the Green Mountains by Alice Herdan-Zuckmayer (Paperback - Oct 7, 1987) |
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Des Teufels General. Drama in drei Akten by Carl Zuckmayer (Paperback - Sep 7, 1961) |
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