Wedekind

[ vey-duh-kint ]

noun

1. Frank [f, r, ahngk], 1864–1918, German poet and dramatist.

Wedekind

/ ˈveːdəkɪnt /

noun

1. WedekindFrank18641918MGermanTHEATRE: dramatist Frank. 1864–1918, German dramatist, whose plays, such as The Awakening of Spring (1891) and Pandora's Box (1904), bitterly satirize the sexual repressiveness of society

Example Sentences

Derived from Frank Wedekind’s play of the same title, Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik’s “Spring Awakening” is part concert, part drama, part secular mass.

From Los Angeles Times

“Decertification was never a factor in the lockout,” Exxon attorney Eva Shih said in opening remarks to Administrative Law Judge Jeffrey Wedekind.

From Reuters

The 2006 Steven Sater musical, an adaptation of the Frank Wedekind play from the turn of the 20th century, is about German teenagers grappling with sexual desires, secret pain and parental pressure.

From New York Times

For example, they noticed that one spy circuit always started their messages with one of the following words: SUDAMERIAT, WEDEKIND, SUDAMERO, EGMARSUD.

From Literature

As adapted from the 1891 Frank Wedekind play, the strait-laced period setting raised the stakes on the anguish of transgression, featuring sex, suicide and the emo touch of characters whipping out anachronistic microphones.

From New York Times