Geoffrey David Skelton (1916–1998) was a British author and translator, he translated numerous plays by leading German-language writers such as Max Rudolf Frisch, was a playwright and novelist, of which nationality?
Geoffrey Skelton Geoffrey David Skelton (1916–1998) was a British author and translator. He specialized in German music, writing biographies of Richard Wagner, Cosima Wagner, Wieland Wagner and Paul Hindemith. He also translated numerous plays by leading German-language writers such as Bertolt Brecht, Max Frisch and Peter Weiss.
Friedrich Maximilian Klinger Friedrich Maximilian von Klinger (17 February 1752 – 25 February 1831) was a German dramatist and novelist. His play "Sturm und Drang" (1776) gave name to the Sturm und Drang artistic epoch. He was a childhood friend of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and is often closely associated with Jakob Michael Reinhold Lenz. Klinger worked as a playwright for the "Seylersche Schauspiel-Gesellschaft" for two years, but eventually left the Kingdom of Prussia to become a General in the Imperial Russian Army.