Frithjof Trapp

Frithjof Trapp (* 1943 in Anklam ) is a retired German German philologist who taught at the University of Hamburg until 2007/2008. His specialty was new German literature.

Life

Trapp studied German, history and sociology in Cologne and the Free University of Berlin from 1962 to 1971 . In 1971 he received his doctorate with Wilhelm Emrich with his study on Heinrich Mann .

From 1972 he worked for seven years as a research assistant to Franz Norbert Mennemeier at the German Studies Department at the Free University of Berlin. In 1978 he was an assistant professor at the Free University of Berlin until 1984 and he also took over the deputy chairmanship of the development planning commission of the academic senate. In 1982 he completed his habilitation with an overview of German exile literature from the years 1933 to 1945.

In 1984 Trapp was appointed head of what was then the Hamburg office for German exile literature. This was later renamed the Walter A. Berendsohn Research Center for German Exile Literature . Trapp was its director until 2008.

In addition, Trapp has been editor from 1980, and from 1995 to 2007 together with Edita Koch publisher of the magazine Exil , which is based in Frankfurt a. M. is published by Edita Koch.

Trapp was a board member of the P. Walter Jacob Foundation (Hamburg) from 1984 and was responsible for the foundation's scientific program. He was also the editor of the Paul Walter Jacob Archive series. From 1987 to 1997 he was a member of the scientific advisory board of the Herbert and Elsbeth Weichmann Foundation (Hamburg).

Work (selection)

• Frithjof Trapp; Werner Mittenzwei ; Henning Rischbieter ; Hansjörg Schneider: Handbook of the German-speaking Exile Theater 1933-1945. (Review by Egon Schwarz in the FAZ )

Volume 1: Persecution and exile of German-speaking theater artists. Saur, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-11374-9

Volume 2: Biographical Lexicon of Theater Artists . Sauer, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-598-11375-7 .

• Between Schönberg and Wagner - musicians' exile 1933–1949. The example of P. Walter Jacob. (For the exhibition in the "Carl von Ossietzky" State and University Library, Hamburg, January 12, 2005 - February 19, 2005) Ed. Frithjof Trapp for the Walter A. Berendsohn Research Center for German Exile Literature. Henschel, Leipzig 2005, ISBN 978-3-89487-510-7 .

Web links

https://www.slm.uni-hamburg.de/germanistik/haben/ehemalige/trapp.html

Individual evidence

1. ↑ [1]
2. ↑ Play behind the curtain. A tragedy: The "Handbuch des Exiltheater" counts losses. May 27, 1999.