Benjamin Franklin Wedekind was born on July 24, 1864 in Hanover, the current capital of the federal state of Lower Saxony, Germany. Wedekind's father, Friedrich Wilhelm Wedekind, was a doctor, and his mother, Emilie Kammerer, a German actress and singer. He grew up in Switzerland, where his father had purchased a castle. After finishing his secondary education, he attended one of the Swiss universities, the University of Lausanne, but dropped out and eventually moved to Munich where he studied literature and law at the University of Munich. After traveling through England and France, he returned to Munich to try to make a living acting (“Simkin”). Before becoming a famous playwright, he also worked as a journalist, circus secretary and advertising copywriter ("Frank Wedekind (German actor and playwright)"). He subsequently joined the staff of a satirical magazine where he began publishing. Between the autumn of 1890 and the spring of 1891 he wrote his first important and highly influential work in the modern history of the theatre, Frühlings Erwachen (Spring Awakening). oppression faced by growing youth in late 19th century Germany. It tackles issues such as adolescent desire, abortion, homosexuality and rape. It follows three teenagers, Wendla, Moritz and Melchior, as they discover their bodies and journey through the complicated period of sexual awakening. Although written in the early 1890s, the play was not performed until November 1906 (“Biography of Frank Wedekind (1864-1918)”), it was considered a highly provocative offensive work. However, its content has been widely recognized as “revolutionary”. Writing this play was also a useful way for Wedekind to clearly demonstrate expressionism, a