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Artur Kutscher (painting by Albert Weisgerber, around 1910)

Artur Heinrich Theodor Christoph Kutscher (born July 17, 1878 in Hanover , † August 29, 1960 in Munich ) was a German literary and theater scholar.

Life

After studying literature in Munich , Kiel and Berlin (doctorate in 1904), Artur Kutscher settled in Munich, where Otto Falckenberg , Frank Wedekind , Hermann Löns , Albert Weisgerber and Max Halbe were among his friends. In 1907 he qualified as a professor in Berlin for literary studies, in the same year became a private lecturer and in 1915 an associate professor in Munich. The coachman seminar founded in 1908 produced important writers and theater people, including Bertolt Brecht and Erwin Piscator .

Based on the thesis that theater is mimic, not literary, Kutscher demanded the creation of a new discipline of theater studies from 1909, of which he is considered the founder. Since 1910 he went on excursions to theaters in southern Germany, later throughout Europe, organized author evenings of the so-called Kutscher-Kreis in Schwabing restaurants with guests such as Johannes R. Becher , Ludwig Ganghofer , Hans Grimm , Richard Hülsenbeck , Heinrich and Thomas Mann , Erich Mühsam , Alexander Roda Roda , Frank Wedekind, Alfred Wolfenstein and Stefan Zweig and played theater with his students ( Euripides ' satyr play Der Kyklop , Goethe's comedy Die Mitschuldigen etc.). After Wedekind's death in 1918, he arranged his estate and wrote his biography.

During his long teaching career, Artur Kutscher has shaped many writers and philologists. His students included Schalom Ben-Chorin , Bertolt Brecht, Peter Hacks , Ödön von Horváth , Hanns Johst , Klabund , Manfred Hausmann , Erwin Piscator, Helmut Käutner , Ernst Toller and Heinz Rückert .

After the " seizure of power " by the National Socialists , he joined the Nazi teachers' association in 1933 . In 1938 he also became a member of the National Socialist People's Welfare and the NS Reich Warrior Association . After becoming an adjunct professor in 1940, he joined the NSDAP in 1942 .

After the end of the Second World War he was ousted in 1945, but soon afterwards became a professor again. In 1951 he retired. In 1958, two years before his death, he was awarded the Grand Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany .

Works

  • Art and Our Lives (1909)
  • Frank Wedekind. His life and his works. 3 vols. Munich 1922, 1927, 1931.
  • The Salzburg Baroque Theater. Vienna, Munich a. a. 1924.
  • Outline of theater studies. (2 volumes, 1932–36)
  • The Comédia dell'arte and Germany. Emsdetten 1955. (The Schaubühne, vol. 43).
  • The theater professor. A life for the science of the theater. Munich: Ehrenwirth 1960. (autobiography)

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Artur Kutscher: The theater professor. A life for the science of the theater. Munich: Ehrenwirth 1960. pp. 73, 83.
  2. ^ Artur Kutscher: The theater professor. Munich: Ehrenwirth 1960. S. 76f.
  3. ^ Artur Kutscher: The theater professor. Munich: Ehrenwirth 1960. pp. 80-102.
  4. ^ Artur Kutscher: The theater professor. Munich: Ehrenwirth 1960. P. 72f., 82f.
  5. ↑ a b c Ernst Klee : The culture lexicon for the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2007, ISBN 978-3-10-039326-5 , p. 347.
personal data
SURNAME Coachman, Artur
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Coachman, Artur Heinrich Theodor Christoph (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary and theater scholar
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH August 29, 1960
Place of death Munich