We prove the existence of smooth closed hypersurfaces of prescribed mean curvature homeomorphic to S for small n, n ≤ 6, provided there are barriers. 0. Introduction In a complete (n+1)-dimensional manifold N we want to find closed hypersurfaces M of prescribed mean curvature. To be more precise, let Ω be a connected open subset of N , f ∈ C(Ω̄), then we look for a closed hypersurface M ⊂ Ω such...