Carl Werckshagen (dramaturge)

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Carl Werckshagen (born April 17, 1903 in Berlin ; † January 2001 in Bad Pyrmont ) was a German dramaturge, writer and translator.

Life

Werckshagen made its debut in Magdeburg in 1926. Continuously engaged as a dramaturge at German companies until 1945. After World War II, he last worked at the Städtische Bühnen in Cologne in 1951/52. Then until his retirement in 1964 he was government director in the Berlin Senate for Science and Art.

Since 1924 Werckshagen had a personal acquaintance and an exchange of letters with Gottfried Benn .

Fonts (selection)

  • Sooner and later. Rhyming and inconsistent from a dramaturge's life . Remagen-Rolandseck: Rommerskirchen 1974.
  • Quarrel with Schott; Two or three?. Memories of Gottfried Benn . Remagen-Rolandseck: Rommerskirchen 1987.

Letters

  • 2 letters to Gottfried Benn in: Gottfried Benn. "Absinthe is sipped with a straw, poetry with a red pencil." Selected letters 1904–1956. Edited and commented by Holger Hof. Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-8353-3109-9 . No. 35 and 111.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Art. Werckshagen, Carl Adolf Ferdinand , in: Deutsches Theaterlexikon vol. 6: Weisbrod - Wolansky, Zurich / Munich 2008, p. 3234.
  2. ↑ See Gottfried Benn. "Absinthe is sipped with a straw, poetry with a red pencil." Selected letters 1904–1956. Edited and commented by Holger Hof. Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-8353-3109-9 , p. 368.

literature

personal data
SURNAME Werckshagen, Carl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dramaturge and writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH January 2001
Place of death Bad Pyrmont