ABSTRACT
In the four years between October 1919, when he began Masse-Mensch and the publication of Der entfesselte Wotan in 1923, Toller wrote five plays, not to mention the Leipzig Massenspiele, two Sprechchöre, and a considerable body of poetry, including Das Schwalbenbuch; but then over three years elapsed between his release from prison on 15 July 1924 and the first nights of Hoppla, wir leben! on 1 Sept. (Hamburg) and 3 Sept. (Berlin) 1927, — three years of intense activity, during which he had to discover and come to terms with the world he had for five years known only at second-hand from behind prison bars.
