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Hermann Sudermann (1857-1928), a noted German author, was born at Wadziken in [[East Prussia|East Prussia]], Germany, 30 September 1857. His father was a member of the Elbing-Ellerwald Mennonite congregation, but was expelled when he married a Lutheran. Hermann Sudermann's <em>Frau Sorge</em> (1887) pictures his unhappy youth in his poverty-stricken home. At an advanced age he wrote <em>Das Bilderbuch meiner Jugend</em> (Stuttgart and Berlin, 1922), in which he recalls the unforgettable impressions of the Mennonite services he attended with his aunt, life on the "Hof" of a wealthy Mennonite uncle, picturing the Prussian Mennonites as competent, honest, but gloomy, and the loan of a considerable sum of money by a distant relative in Russia for Hermann's education.
= Bibliography =
Bender, Elizabeth. "<em>The Mennonites in German Literature.</em>" M.A. thesis, University of Minnesota, 1943.

Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. <em>Mennonitisches Lexikon</em>, 4 vols. Frankfurt &amp; Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe; Schneider, 1913-1967: v. IV.
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