Samuel Lublinski

Lublinski, Samuel (Johannisburg, East Prussia, 1868-1910, Weimar), began with theoretical and critical writings and with essays (Neu-Deutschland, 1900) and also wrote historical tragedies in a Naturalistic manner (Hannibal, 1902; Elisabeth und Essex, 1903). Dissatisfied with Naturalism, he became one of the spokesmen for the short-lived trend of neo-Classicism (see Neuklassizismus), supporting it in Die Bilanz der Moderne (1904) and Der Ausgang der Moderne (1909). To this phase belong his tragedies Gunther und Brunhild (1908) and Kaiser und Kanzler (1910).