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| Bahr, Hermann |
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(h r´män bär) (KEY) , 18631934, Austrian dramatist and critic. His essay Zur Kritik der Moderne (1890) established modernism as a literary term, and his study Expressionismus (1916, tr. 1925) defined that literary trend. Bahrs plays include the comedies Das Konzert (1909, tr. 1910) and Der Meister (1914, tr. 1918). |
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