Excerpt from Die Journalisten Freytag 's interest in the stage dates from the time he was ten years of age at which time he was much impressed by the performances of a troupe of. Wandering players. This same year he wrote his first story, a tale relating the adventures of a shipwrecked father and children, contain ing traces of Robinson Crusoe. His partiality for the stage grew with the years, and in 1841 he dramatized the account of the wooing of Mary of Bur gundy by the Archduke Maximilian of Austria, as he says, with great ardor and joy and lack of knowledge of dramatic art. Although it brought him a first prize in a competitive contest, Die Brautfahrt was never a great success. In his Erin nernngen he tells of his own ecstasies at its presentation at Breslau and of his sur prise that the audience did not seem to share his enthusiasm. Other plays, writ ten after he had studied the stage more carefully, were Die Valentine and Graf Waldemar, both of which met with approval and became repertoire plays.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.