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Atlantis by Gerhart Hauptmann (1862 - 1946)
Atlantis by Gerhart Hauptmann (1862 - 1946)
Gerhart Hauptmann

Atlantis by Gerhart Hauptmann (1862 - 1946)

Frederick von Kammacher is a young doctor in Germany whose wife has gone insane, whose children are in a boarding school, and whose career has been destroyed by some faulty research he has done. He becomes infatuated with a teenage dancer, and on a whim he boards the the same steamship the dancer is on bound for New York. Hauptmann was heralded as a seer for his description of what happens to their steamship mid-ocean, and what in reality happened to the Titanic only months later. (Summary by Margaret)