Albert Malte Wagner

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Anita Rée : Portrait of Dr. Malte Wagner (1920)

Albert Malte Wagner (born November 16, 1886 in Hamburg , † February 1, 1962 in London ) was a British German studies scholar and literary historian of German - Jewish origin.

Life

Born in Hamburg, Albert Malte Wagner studied at the universities of Freiburg , Berlin and Munich after completing his Abitur , before becoming a Dr. phil. received his doctorate . He then worked as a private scholar, then took part in the First World War until he took over a lectureship at the University of Hamburg in 1919, and he also worked as a theater critic for the Hamburg Foreign Journal . In 1924 he moved to Nuremberg and became editor-in-chief of the Nürnberger Nachrichten .

In 1934 Albert Malte Wagner emigrated to Great Britain, became Examiner of the Civil Service Commissioners and taught as a professor at Bedford College in London. The National Socialists put him on the special wanted list of the Reich Security Main Office . After the end of the Second World War , Wagner worked for the Directory of Arms Education, District London, in 1949 Albert Malte Wagner returned to Germany and worked as a professor of German language and literature, history and sociology of European literatures at the University of Jena . Wagner, who returned to Great Britain after his retirement in 1955, died in 1962 at the age of 75 in London.

Fonts

  • Friedrich Hebbel's dramatic style . Dissertation, Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, 1910
  • Adam Mickiewicz and his "Konrad Wallenrod", Warsaw, 1916
  • Heinrich Wilhelm von Gerstenberg and the storm and stress: Gerstenberg's life, writings and personality, Volume 1, winter, 1920
  • Joseph: a new work by Goethe; an Altona find, Gente, 1920
  • Gerstenberg as a type of transition period, winter, 1924
  • The theater in Nuremberg: a dramaturgy, Spandel, 1925
  • Lessing: The awakening of the German spirit, Horen-Verlag, 1931
  • Goethe, Kleist, Hebbel and The Religious Problem of Your Dramatic Poetry: A Secular Contemplation, New Edition , BiblioBazaar, 2010 ISBN 1147720053 .

literature

  • Walther Killy and Rudolf Vierhaus (eds.): German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 10, KG Saur Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Munich, 1996 ISBN 3-598-23163-6 . Page 278.
  • Kai Köhler: The anger of those caught. A reader letter from Albert Malte Wagner to DIE ZEIT in 1958 sparked a political controversy about German studies on the past [1] , in: Sabine Koloch (Ed.): 1968 in German literature / topic group “Post-war German studies in criticism” (literaturkritik.de archive / special editions ) (2020).
  • Werner Krauss , Peter Jehle (Eds.): Letters 1922 to 1976, Vittorio Klostermann Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2002 ISBN 3465031822 . Page 1034.
  • Werner Röder, Herbert A. Strauss , (Eds.), Biographisches Handbuch der Deutschensprachigen Emigration nach 1933 / International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 , Vol II, 2 Munich: Saur 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p 1199

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personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Albert Malte
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British Germanist and literary historian of German-Jewish origin
DATE OF BIRTH November 16, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 1962
Place of death London