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August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue (1761-1819) was a German dramatist. Kotzebue is to be seen to best advantage in his comedies, which contain admirable genre pictures of German life.
From the year 1788, when he triumphed on the Berlin stage with his Misanthropy and Remorse, to 1819, when a student terrorist stabbed him to death for his "unpatriotic" political views, Kotzebue reigned supreme over the German and Austrian theater, and pervaded theaters throughout the world. Goethe, who both admired and despised the Weimar-born writer, produced his plays more often than those of any other author, living or dead. Some fifty of his plays were eagerly translated and performed in Great Britain and the United States. His influence on nineteenth-century stagecraft was far-reaching. Today he is still a familiar figure to every student of German literature and history. In the Englis...
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The fourth installment in this series is the memoirs of Moritz von Kotzebue, the son of the famous August von Kotzebue. After being captured at Polotsk in August 1812, Kotzebue spent the next year and a half in the French captivity as he was moved first to Germany and then to France. His memoir is fascinating for its vivid, and occasionally witty, descriptions of his experiences.