Georg Kaiser

Knocked for six by his lust for an exotically perfumed woman from Florence, a trusted bank clerk of twenty-five years' standing shoves a stolen fortune in his pocket and runs to her hotel, where his ludicrous advances are rejected. But, he's broken free and there's no turning back. He ditches his family and their bourgeois existence to embark on a roller-coaster odyssey, scouring the city's senseless entertainments in an increasingly disillusioned search for an experience worth buying and a reason for living. "I am a changed man! I have sixty thousand marks and I'm going to decide for myself what is and isn't pointless so to hell with you!"

Das Drama Die Bürger von Calais – Bühnenspiel in drei Akten entstand, angeregt von Rodins bereits berühmt gewordener Plastik, 1912/1913 in einer ersten Fassung, fand seine endgültige Form 1914 und wurde am 29. Januar 1917 am Neuen Theater in Frankfurt am Main unter der Regie von Arthur Hellmer uraufgeführt. Das Theaterstück wurde ein großer Publikumserfolg und brachte Georg Kaiser den künstlerischen Durchbruch. Es ist noch heute Schullektüre. (Quelle: [Wikipedia](

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This early work, originally published in 1922, is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. Written by the German dramatist Georg Kaiser, one the most successful Expressionist dramatists of his age. This play, among the most frequently performed German Expressionist works, charts the life of a cashier who steals money from the bank and flees to Berlin. The un-named protagonist's bid to escape his middle class daily life is ultimately frustrated.