The journey of a death mask of German playwright Frank Wedek

The journey of a death mask of German playwright Frank Wedekind


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IMAGE: Death mask of Frank Wedekind: Over 100 years after the writer's death, Wedekind expert Professor Ariane Martin received this cast of the mask from New Zealand.
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Credit: photo/©: Editions- und Forschungsstelle Frank Wedekind
More than 100 years after the author's death, a professor of German based in New Zealand presented the death mask to the Editions- und Forschungsstelle Frank Wedekind at Mainz University / Fascinating narrative of exile and a cultural item of crucial importance
A death mask of the German writer Frank Wedekind has unexpectedly reappeared after decades abroad. It was recently returned to Germany by the previous owner in New Zealand over 100 years since Wedekind's death. "The mask not only had a long journey to New Zealand and back, but it also tells an extraordinary history of exile," said Professor Ariane Martin, head of the Editions- und Forschungsstelle Frank Wedekind (EFFW) at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), the leading center of research on the author. "This hugely interesting cultural object, which until now we knew next to nothing about, has an almost unbelievable backstory." Frank Wedekind, one of the most important modern German playwrights, is perhaps best known internationally for his tragedy "Spring Awakening" ("Frühlings Erwachen"). He died in 1918 at the age of 53 from complications following an appendectomy. Immediately after his death, a number of death masks were prepared using plaster, of which only a few are still known to exist. It is worth noting that the cast from New Zealand is particularly well preserved.

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