ALARMING TEENAGE SUICIDE cults and hidden abuse, moral panics about whether the young know enough about sex or are getting too much of it and useless (or worse) adults — it’s all very now. It is also all very Frank Wedekind in his play set in provincial Germany in the early 1890s.
A raw saga of lust and deeper longing, intergenerational strife and tragedies fomented by educational and sexual repression, Max Reinhardt directed the (censored) premiere of in 1906. It’s not surprising that its themes resonate more than a century on so that a
