Alois Maria Nagler

Alois Maria Nagler (born September 14, 1907 in Graz , Austria-Hungary ; died April 26, 1993 in Wallingford ) was an Austrian-American theater scholar.

Life

Nagler was a son of Alois Nagler and Auguste Schupp. From 1926 he studied philology at the University of Graz and the University of Vienna and received his doctorate in Graz in 1930. He worked as a freelance editor and wrote theater reviews for Wiener Neuesten Nachrichten . In 1933 he married Erna Scheinberger, who died in 1983. At the end of the 1930s, Nagler was teaching in the USA. He did not return to Nazi Germany, and his wife also managed to leave.

Nagler received a Rockefeller Fellowship in 1940 and worked from 1941 to 1945 in a cultural studies project for the US Navy Intelligence Office at Yale University . Nagler then taught theater history at Yale University and curated the theater collection at the university. He wrote for The Theater Annual and the Shakespeare Quarterly . He was visiting professor at Columbia University , the Free University of Berlin and several times at the City University of New York . Even after his retirement in 1976, he still held seminars.

Nagler was a co-founder and for a time president of the International Federation for Theater Research and also of the American Society for Theater Research. He was a member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and received the Austrian Decoration of Honor for Science and Art .

Fonts (selection)

• Hebbel and the music . Gorres Society. Cologne: JP Bachem, 1928
• Sources of Theatrical History . New York: Dover Publications, 1952
• Shakespeare's Stage . Translation Ralph Manheim . New Haven: Yale University Press, 1958
• A Source Book in Theatrical History . Courier Corporation, 1959
• Theater Festivals of the Medici 1539–1637 . Translation by George Hickenlooper. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1964
• The medieval religious stage: shapes and phantoms . New Haven: Yale University Press, 1976
• Malaise in the Opera: Opera Directing in Our Century . Rheinfelden: Schäuble, 1980 ISBN 978-3-87718-007-5

literature

• Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933–1945 . Volume 2.2. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 842

Web links

• Literature by and about Alois Maria Nagler in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Alois Maria Nagler in the bibliographic database WorldCat
• Alois M. Nagler, 85, A Theater Historian , Obituary, NYT, April 28, 1993