Hans Henny Jahnn

Who was Hans Henny Jahnn?

Hans Henny Jahnn was a German playwright, novelist, and organ-builder.

As a playwright, he wrote: Pastor Ephraim Magnus, which The Cambridge Guide to Theatre describes as a nihilistic, Expressionist play "stuffed with perversities and sado-masochistic motifs"; Coronation of Richard III; and a version of Medea. Later works include the novel Perrudja, an unfinished trilogy of novels River without Banks, the drama Thomas Chatterton, and the novella The Night of Lead. Erwin Piscator staged Jahnn's The Dusty Rainbow in 1961.

Jahnn was also a music publisher, focusing on 17th-century organ music. He was a contemporary of organ-builder Rudolf von Beckerath.