Friedrich Wilhelm Ernst Hardt (9 May 1876 – 3 January 1947), born Ernst Stöckhardt, was a Germanplaywright,poet, andnovelist.

Hardt was born inGraudenz,West Prussia (nowGrudziądz, Poland).

He is the author ofPriester des Todes (1898),Bunt ist das Leben (1902),An den Toren des Lebens (1904), and the playsDer Kampf ums Rosenrote (1903),Ninon von Lenclos (1905),Tantris der Narr (1907),Gudrun (1911), andKonig Salomo (1915). He was director of the National Theater inWeimar (1919–24), theSchauspiel Köln inCologne (1925), and theWestdeutscher Rundfunk (West German Broadcasting Co). (1926–1933).

He worked withBertolt Brecht on some experimental radio broadcasts.^[1]

He was removed from his position with the Westdeutscher Rundfunk by the Nazis in 1933. A few months later he was imprisoned for a short period and then took refuge in the Sankt Anna Hospital in Cologne-Lindenthal. He was later acquitted in the "broadcast trial" and able, for a time, to resume some literary activities.

Hardt died inIchenhausen.^{[citation needed]}

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