Günther Erken

Günther Erken (* 1933 in Nordhorn ) is a German theater scholar and dramaturge .

Life

From 1972 to 1978 Erken held the professorship for theater studies at the University of Cologne and was director of the theater studies collection . In 1979 he turned to practical theater work and worked as a dramaturge for Hansgünther Heyme at the Stuttgart State Theater , and in 1985 he moved to the Bavarian State Theater in Munich. From 1991 he taught as a professor for theater studies at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich ; At the Bavarian Theater Academy he founded the dramaturgy course and supervised it until 2009.

The main research areas of his publications since 1962 include: a. Shakespeare , Schiller , Hofmannsthal , Ödön von Horváth and Tankred Dorst .

Fonts

• Hofmannsthal's dramatic style . Studies on symbolism and dramaturgy. Tübingen (Niemeyer) 1967 (dissertation).
• Theatre. An illustrated story of the drama (together with Hans Peter Doll ). Stuttgart, Zurich (Belser) 1985. ISBN 3-7630-9032-0 .
• Hansgünther Heyme . Frankfurt am Main (Fischer) 1988. ISBN 978-3-59-627124-5 .
• Tankred Dorst . Frankfurt am Main (Suhrkamp) 1989. ISBN 3-518-38573-9 .
• Theater history . Stuttgart (Reclam) 2014. ISBN 978-3-15-010996-0 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jörg Sader , Anette Wörner (ed.): Transgressions. Dialogues between literary and theater studies, architecture and the fine arts . Festschrift for Leonhard M. Fiedler. Würzburg ( Königshausen & Neumann ) 2002, p. 346
2. ↑ Münchner Merkur, April 14, 2009 [1]
3. ↑ Theater of Time: Günther Erken [2]