Hebbel

Most charmingly Hebbel describes his first experience of love, when but four years old.

To comfort himself he read Hebbel's Life; and for a time he thought of going to America.

The same is recorded of Friedrich Hebbel, the most original of modern German dramatists.

Hebbel, especially, must be regarded as the most original and revolutionary German dramatist of the 19th century.

With less success Sudermann attempted in Johannes a tragedy on lines suggested by Hebbel.