Ludwig Hoffmann (theater scholar)

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Ludwig Hoffmann (born April 17, 1932 in Oberoderwitz , † November 15, 1997 in Berlin ) was a German theater scholar . His scientific work was particularly focused on the left, proletarian theater tradition of the twenties and thirties.

Life

After studying at the theater academies in Weimar and Leipzig (1951–1955) and a diploma thesis on and internship with Bertolt Brecht's staging of the "Caucasian Chalk Circle" at the Berliner Ensemble 1954 editing of plays for the Hofmeister Verlag and research assistant at the Institute for Folk Art in Leipzig ( there, among others, collaboration with Manfred Naumann and Jürgen Teller ). Study books on dramaturgy and own texts for amateur theater as well as research on workers' theater. Close friendship with the poet and playwright Richard Leising . From 1964 research assistant at the theater studies department of the Academy of the Arts of the GDR in Berlin, from 1973 head of the performing arts department of the academy. During this time, Hoffmann worked closely with the Presidents of the Academy, Konrad Wolf (1965–1982), Manfred Wekwerth (1982–1990) and Heiner Müller (1990–1993), for whom he also wrote speeches. Participation in the working meetings initiated by Peter Hacks at the “Berlinische Dramaturgie” academy. Collaboration on the DEFA documentary "Busch singt - six films about the first half of the 20th century" (1982), director: Konrad Wolf. After the Academy of the Arts was wound up in 1993, research assistant at the Berlinische Galerie for the exhibition “Berlin-Moscow, Moscow-Berlin 1900–1950” (opening September 3, 1995 in the Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin and on March 1, 1996 in the State Pushkin -Museum Moscow).

Publications

  • (Ed.), May 1st is red. Scenes, prose, poems, documents, Berlin 1961.
  • (together with Daniel Hoffmann-Ostwald), Deutsches Arbeitertheater 1918–1933, Berlin 1961 (2nd extended edition Berlin 1972 and Munich 1973; Tokyo 1979).
  • (Ed.), Erwin Piscator. Writings, 2 vols., Berlin 1968 (2nd ed. UdT Erwin Piscator. Theater, Film, Politik, Berlin 1980).
  • (Ed. Together with Dieter Wardetzky), Meyerhold, Tairow, Wachtangow. October theater. Contributions to the development of the Soviet theater, Leipzig 1972, Frankfurt a. M. 1972.
  • (Ed.), Manfred Wekwerth. Fonts. Work with Brecht, Berlin 1973 (2nd edition Berlin 1975).
  • (Ed.), Herbert Jhering. The struggle for theater and other pamphlets 1918–1933, Berlin 1974.
  • (Ed.), Erwin Piscator. Theater of debate. Selected writings and speeches, Frankfurt a. M. 1977.
  • (together with Manfred Naumann and others), Schauspielführer, 3 vols., Berlin 1963–64, 2nd edition 1966–68, 3rd edition 1972, 4th edition 1975, new edition. in 2 vols. Berlin 1986, 2nd edition 1988.
  • (with the help of Klaus Pfützner), Theater der Kollektiv. Proletarian-revolutionary professional theater in Germany 1928-1933, Berlin 1980.
  • (Co-editor and author), Art and Literature in Anti-Fascist Exile 1933–1945, 7 vols., Leipzig 1980, 2nd edition 1987, Frankfurt am Main 1981.
  • (Ed. Together with Dieter Heinze), Konrad Wolf in Dialogue - Arts and Politics, Berlin 1985.
  • (together with Karl Siebig), Ernst Busch. A German biography in texts, pictures and documents, Berlin (East) and Berlin (West) 1987.
  • The Proletarian Theater of Berlin and the Proletkult Impulse, in: Irina Antonowa u. Jörn Merkert (ed.), Berlin-Moscow, Moscow-Berlin 1900–1950, Berlin 1995, 227–232.

Web link

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.dla-marbach.de/index.php?id=51888&ADISDB=BF&WEB=JA&ADISOI=15179
  2. ↑ Thomas Keck, Jens Mehrle (Ed.): Berlinische Dramaturgie. Conversation minutes of the academy working groups led by Peter Hacks in five volumes. Aurora Verlag Berlin 2010
  3. ↑ http://www.defa-stiftung.de/DesktopDefault.aspx?TabID=412&FilmID=Q6UJ9A002Q1T
  4. ↑ The two poems that Heiner Müller sent to the academy's staff on May 1, 1993 on the occasion of the liquidation are documented in: Berliner Debatte / Initial 3/1996, pp. 98–99.
personal data
SURNAME Hoffmann, Ludwig
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater scholar
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberoderwitz
DATE OF DEATH November 15, 1997
Place of death Berlin