Frank Wedekind’s Erdgeist (German for “Earth-Spirit”) was first published in 1895, but it was not produced until 1898. In this first performance in Leipzig, Germany, Wedekind himself played Dr. Schon (Wedekind often acted in his own plays). Erdgeist is the first of the “Lulu plays”; in 1904, Wedekind wrote the sequel Die Büchse der Pandora (Pandora’s Box). The title Erdgeist is a reference to Goethe’s Faust, in which the Erdgeist figure is a type of gnome, earthy and elemental. Similarly, Lulu (the Earth-Spirit) is equally supernatural and mysterious; she possesses no overt powers, but is a
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