Round 6: Tossup 10

A character created by this author tells her dim-witted husband that once you are rich and sitting in a carriage, “nobody asks where ya got your money.” In that play by this author, stolen wood is used to build a boat landing while the bumbling magistrate Wehrhahn (10[1])obsesses over proving that Motes is a socialist. In a play by this author, the Pfeifer callously rejects a starving man’s handiwork as substandard before Old Baumert’s family eats dog meat (10[1])to survive. This author wrote a Diebskomödie (“DEEBS-kom-UH-dee-uh”), or thief’s comedy, in which Mother Wolff is never (10[2])discovered to have stolen the (10[1])title garment. In a naturalist (10[1])play by this winner of the 1912 Nobel Prize, (10[1])the Silesian (10[1])mill (10[1])owner (10[1])Dreissiger (10[2])attempts to (10[1])suppress the wage (10[1])of the title workers. (-5[1])For 10 points, (10[1])name this German playwright (10[1])who wrote The Beaver Coat and The Weavers. ■END■ (10[3]0[3])

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