Edgar Gross

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Edgar Gross (in some sources: Gross ; born September 26, 1886 in Lankwitz , † November 29, 1970 in Rome ) was a German theater scholar and artistic director .

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After completing his Abitur at the humanistic grammar school in Berlin, Groß studied literature and theater studies in Berlin and Würzburg and completed his studies in 1910 with a doctorate on the subject of the older romanticism and the theater . In 1912 he published an edition of Max von Schenkendorf's poems in Bong's Golden Classics Library . After a subsequent stage training and his assignment as an officer in the First World War , he was taken over in 1919 as dramaturge and senior stage manager at the city theaters in Halle . In 1928 Groß moved to the Stadttheater Halberstadt as artistic director , in 1932 to the Theater Lübeck and from 1934 to the Theater Aachen as the successor to Francesco Sioli , who came into conflict with Joseph Goebbels because of his socially critical and progressive performances . In November 1936, two months after the premiere in Düsseldorf, he made a name for himself in Aachen with the staging of Christian Dietrich Grabbe's drama Die Hermannsschlacht in an adaptation by Hans Bacmeister , the brother of the playwright Ernst Bacmeister . The theater reviews noted that Groß had expressly underlined the current time reference of the drama.

After the Sudetenland by the Nazi government of Germany in October 1938 annexed had, United was in 1939 with the directorship of the combined platforms of Cheb and Frantiskovy entrusted. From 1941 he was in charge of the Aussig theater and the Marienbad spa theater , which at that time was also being played by Aussig, as well as the management of the Sudeten German theater school. After the Second World War he returned to Germany and from 1946 received a position as senior theater manager at the Würzburg Theater. In this theater, after the destruction in March 1945, some of the performances had to take place in the ruins, which served as a realistic backdrop, and later in the gym of the teachers' seminar at the Theater am Wittelsbacher Platz .

In addition to his involvement in the theater, Groß published a number of theater studies as a permanent employee of the Munich Nymphenburger Verlag and published various works by, among others, Theodor Fontane , Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach and, in 1962, a selection of the most beautiful stories by ETA Hoffmann with a comment.

Fonts (selection)

  • The Older Romance and the Theater , Inaugural Dissertation, L Voss, 1910
  • Max von Schenkendorf: Poems. Ed. With introduction and Note vers. by Edgar Groß. Bong: Berlin, Leipzig, Vienna, Stuttgart, [1912]
  • Johann Friedrich Ferdinand Fleck  : A Contribution to the Development History of German Theater . Writings of the Society for Theater History, Volume XXII, Berlin 1914

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Julia Freifrau Hiller von Gaertringen: The only völkisch visionary of his time. Grabbes "Hermannsschlacht" in the theater . Lippische Landesbibliothek, Detmold 2009.
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Rasch: Theodor Fontanes Bibliography. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-11-018456-7 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  3. ^ Jürgen Born: German-language literature from Prague and the Bohemian countries. KG Saur, Munich 1993, ISBN 3-598-11091-X , p. 7781 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  4. ↑ ETA Hoffmann: The most beautiful stories. Selection u. Note by Edgar Gross. Nymphenburger, Munich 1962, DNB 452062403 .
personal data
SURNAME Great, Edgar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Groß, Edgar Karl Marian (full name); Gross, Edgar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater scholar and artistic director
DATE OF BIRTH September 26, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Lankwitz
DATE OF DEATH November 29, 1970
Place of death Rome