Edmund Stadler (theater scholar)

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Edmund Stadler (born April 3, 1912 in Lucerne ; † March 21, 2005 in Muri bei Bern , Catholic , resident in Zug ) was a Swiss theater scholar .

Life

Edmund Stadler, son of Edmund Stadler senior and Maria de Tognola, studied theater studies, German , Romance studies and art history at the University of Munich from 1931 to 1936 after graduating from high school . In 1937 Stadler worked as an exhibition designer in Frankfurt am Main and until 1946 as a research assistant to Carl Niessen in Cologne and worked in his private theater collection. When Cologne was bombed on May 31, 1942, the theater museum was also damaged and Stadler, together with one of his employees and Niessen, tried to save as much of it as possible. In 1949 he was in CologneDr. phil. PhD.

From 1946 to 1977 he was a board member of the Swiss Society for Theater Culture (SGTK) and curator of the Swiss Theater Collection , a foundation based in Bern . In this role he tried to bring the valuable private Niessen collection to Switzerland after the Second World War , but Niessen ordered a donation to the city of Cologne. in the year Stadler significantly expanded the Swiss theater collection and promoted its exhibition activities.

From 1947 to 1982 Edmund Stadler had lectureships in theater studies at the Universities of Zurich and Bern - there he was made honorary professor in 1971 . From 1956 to 1975 Stadler was editor of the Swiss Theater Yearbook and editor of the Mimos newsletter of the Swiss Society for Theater Culture . In 1954 he was a co-founder of three international theater research institutions; he then served them as a board member. In 1990 he was made an honorary member of the Fédération Internationale pour la Recherche Théâtrale .

Stadler died shortly before the age of 93; he was unmarried.

Fonts

  • Bernische Theatergeschichte, Verlag E. Stadler, 1950
  • The Swiss stage design from Appia to today: Exhibition of the Swiss Society for Theater Culture, In: Volume 7 of the publications of the Swiss Society for Theater Culture, Theaterkultur-Verlag, 1951
  • Adolphe Appia and Richard Wagner , Aschmann & Scheller printing house, 1953
  • The emergence of the national landscape theater in Switzerland, In: Volume 2 of The newer open-air theater in Europe and America, Waldstatt Verlag, 1953
  • Hans Reinhart : the promoter of Swiss theater culture, Swiss Society for Theater Culture, 1957
  • The professional theater in German-speaking Switzerland, 1959
  • Friedrich Schiller "Wilhelm Tell" and Switzerland, In: Issue 28 of the library, Bern (Switzerland). Swiss Gutenberg Museum, publisher of the Swiss Gutenberg Museum, 1960
  • Swiss School Theater 1946-1966, In: Volume 33 of the Swiss Theater Yearbook of the Swiss Society for Theater Culture, Theaterkultur-Verlag, 1967
  • Max Reinhardt and Switzerland, Müller, 1973
  • School and youth theater of the city of Bern in the Baroque era, In: Berner Zeitschrift für Geschichte und Heimatkunde, State Archives of the Canton of Bern, 1982

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personal data
SURNAME Stadler, Edmund
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss theater scholar
DATE OF BIRTH April 3, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Lucerne
DATE OF DEATH March 21, 2005
Place of death Muri near Bern