Christian Dietrich Grabbe, German poet and playwright (died 1836)

Christian Dietrich Grabbe

German playwright (1801–1836)

Christian Dietrich Grabbe was a German dramatist of the Vormärz era. He wrote many historical plays conceiving a disillusioned and pessimistic world view, with some shrill scenes. Heinrich Heine saw him as one of Germany's foremost dramatists, calling him "a drunken Shakespeare"…