Nazi authorities banned Sternheim's work not only because of his partial Jewish descent but also because of his savage comedic assaults on the perceived moral corruption of the German bourgeoisie. Art collection Carl Sternheim collected art. An early admirer of Vincent Van Gogh, in 1912 he lent several paintings from his collection to the International Art Exhibition in Cologne known as the 1912 Sonderbund. The Van Goghs lent by Sternheim included "Still life with coffee pot, dishes and fruit", "Street in Saintes-Maries", and "L'Arlésienne", and "Entrance to the Public Park in Arles". Adaptations Sternheim's works remain popular in Germany, but English language productions of them are rare, specially in Uk where there is a long tradition of ignoring plays not first written in English or adapting them in order to lose any Foreign cultural specificities. Academics have also argued that Sternheim's works are sometimes hard to sell to the market in foreign languages due to the difficulty in categorising his style as belonging to any one specific movement. As a result, Sternheim's plays have rarely been produced in a major venue. One notable exception occurred when Simon Callow made his West End debut in a version of Bürger Schippel (re-titled as The Plumber's Progress) alongside Harry Secombe in the 1970s. However, in August 2011, both Paul Schippel Esq. (an alternative title often given to Bürger Schippel) and The Fossil, another of Sternheim's comedies, were performed as a double-bill at the Charing Cross Theatre, London, with Kieran E. Sims and Alex Corbet Burcher in the respective title roles. In December 2018, a new adaptation of three of the short plays from Aus dem bürgerlichen Heldenleben by David Ives premiered at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C. The Panties, The Partner, and The Profit were adapted from Die Hose, Der Snob and 1913, and produced with the subtitle Scenes From the Heroic Life of the Middle Class. Bibliography Aus dem bürgerlichen Heldenleben (From the Heroic Life of the Bourgeois), play cycle (1911–22): Die Hose (The Trousers, also The Underpants) Der Snob (The Snob) 1913 Das Fossil (The Fossil) Die Kassette (The Cartridge) Bürger Schippel (Citizens Schippel) Schuhlin, Eine Erzahlung (Schuhlin, A Narrative) (1915) Kampf der Metapher (Struggle of Metaphor), essay (1917) Chronik von des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts Beginn (Chronicle of the Beginning of the Twentieth Century), short stories, 1918 Die Marquise von Arcis (The Mask of Virtue), drama (1918) Europa, novel, 2