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98 Gerhart Hauptmann
the most difficult period for the individual as well
as for a people.
THE WEAVERS
WHEN "
The Weavers
"
first saw the light,
pandemonium broke out in the
"
land of thinkers
and poets." "What!" cried Philistia,
"
work-
ingmen, dirty, emaciated and starved, to he placed
on the stage !
Poverty, in all its ugliness, to be
presented as an after-dinner amusement? That
is too much !
"
Indeed it is too much for the self-satisfied
bourgeoisie to be brought face to face with the
horrors of the weaver s existence. It is too much,
because of the truth and reality that thunders in
the placid ears of society a terrific J accuse!
Gerhart Hauptmann is a child of the people;
his grandfather was a weaver, and the only way
his father could escape the fate of his parents
was by leaving his trade and opening an inn.
Little Gerhart s vivid and impressionable mind
must have received many pictures from the stories
told about the life of the weavers. Who knows
but that the social panorama which Hauptmann
subsequently gave to the world, had not slum
bered in the soul of the child, gaining form and
substance as he grew to manhood. At any rate
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