Wendla Bergmann

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Wendla Bergmann is a naive yet curious teenage girl whose tragic coming-of-age journey is central to the plot of the rock musical "Spring Awakening."

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Wendla Bergmann canonical 4

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Predicate Object
instanceOf fictional character
theatrical character
adaptedBy Duncan Sheik
Steven Sater
age teenager
appearsIn Spring Awakening
Spring Awakening (rock musical)
linked to: Spring Awakening
basedOn Wendla Bergmann (Spring Awakening play)
causeOfDeathInStory botched abortion
centralTo plot of Spring Awakening (rock musical)
characterTrait curious
idealistic
innocent
naive
creator Frank Wedekind
dramaticFunction critiques sexual ignorance
illustrates consequences of societal repression
firstAppearance Spring Awakening (play, 1891)
linked to: Spring Awakening
firstAppearanceInMusical Spring Awakening (Broadway, 2006)
linked to: Spring Awakening
gender female
genre coming-of-age
languageOfOriginWork German
musicalNumber Mama Who Bore Me
Mama Who Bore Me (Reprise)
linked to: Mama Who Bore Me

The Guilty Ones
The Word of Your Body
Whispering
narrativeRole protagonist
tragic heroine
nationalityInFiction German
originalMedium stage play
portrayedBy Alexandra Socha
Jenna Ushkowitz
Katie Boeck
Krysta Rodriguez
Lea Michele
Lucy May Barker
Niamh Perry
Sandra Mae Frank
relationship daughter of Frau Bergmann
friend of Martha Bessel
love interest of Melchior Gabor
setting late 19th-century Germany
themeInvolvement adolescent pregnancy
parental secrecy
repression
sexual awakening
workForm stage musical

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Melchior Gabor hasRomanticRelationshipWith Wendla Bergmann
Mama Who Bore Me performedByCharacter Wendla Bergmann
I Believe performedByCharacter Wendla Bergmann