Bruno Satori-Neumann

Bruno Thomas Satori-Neumann (born November 6, 1886 in Briesen ; † November 23, 1943 in Berlin ; until 1910: Neumann ) was a German theater scholar and journalist .

Life

After High School in the gymnasium of Elbing Bruno Neumann studied at the University of Berlin at the request of his father initially Geodesy , but dropped out in 1910 and switched to Max Herrmann in the German language . With his dissertation on the early days of the Weimar court theater under Goethe's direction (1791–1798) , he received his doctorate in philosophy in Greifswald in 1919 . In 1920 he founded the "Society of Friends and Patrons of the Theater Studies Institute at the University of Berlin", to which Max Reinhardt and Gerhart Hauptmann belonged and from which in 1923 the Theater Studies Institute emerged . From 1920 he was there as a teacher worked, but resigned from ties to the Jewish because of its origin forced into retirement Max Herrmann in 1933 back. In 1937, as a Social Democrat and the husband of a woman of Jewish descent, his license to teach in higher schools was revoked. After brief internment in Lublin, he returned to Berlin in 1943, where he and his family were killed in a bomb attack that same year.

Services

In addition to his dissertation, which soon became a standard work of Goethe research after its publication in 1920 , Neumann wrote numerous works, including the Elbinger Heimatbücher and an extensive work on the theater history of Elbing, the third and last part of which, however, remained unpublished. For the theater magazine Die Scene he worked temporarily as an editor. As a publicist he was involved in the publication of the theater studies papers and the theater studies reports .

Fonts (selection)

• 1920: The early days of the Weimar court theater under Goethe's direction (1791 to 1798) . Elsner publishing house, Berlin
• 1933: Elbing in Biedermeier and Vormärz: serious and cheerful things from the good old days (1815-1848) . Volume 2 of the Elbinger Heimatbücher . Saunier publishing house, Elbing
• 1936: Three hundred years of professional theater in Elbing . Volume 1: The history of an East German provincial theater 1605–1846 . Danzig Publishing Company, Danzig
• 1962: Three hundred years of professional theater in Elbing . Volume 2: Professional theater in Elbing 1846–1888 . Verlag Elwert, Marburg ( posthumous )

literature

• Ralph-Günther Patocka:  Satori-Neumann (until 1910 Neumann), Bruno Thomas. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 22, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-428-11203-2 , p. 443 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Bruno Satori-Neumann in the catalog of the German National Library