Gottfried Fischborn

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Gottfried Fischborn (born March 17, 1936 in Marienberg ; † March 23, 2020 in Wiesbaden ) was a German literary and theater scholar .

Life and work

Gottfried Fischborn grew up in Oschatz and attended high school there. After studying theater studies (1955–1959), he initially worked as a dramaturge at the Meininger Theater. Since 1961 he worked as a research assistant, from 1970 as a lecturer and from 1977 to 1992 as a professor at the theater school "Hans Otto" Leipzig. For a while he was also Vice Rector and Head of Theater Studies. From 1992 to 2002 Fischborn taught at the University of Leipzig ; From 1998 to 2000 he was also a visiting lecturer and most recently visiting professor in the field of drama writing and theater theory at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig .

Fischborn worked in the border area between literary and theater studies. His research interests were mainly in the field of drama history , the theory of drama and theatricality research. In the 1970s and 1980s he also appeared in the GDR with literary publications (plays, radio plays, essay writing). From April 2001 to the end of October 2017, Gottfried Fischborn was the first in the German-speaking area to offer online correspondence courses on scenic writing, which were accompanied by workshops that he led together with Dagmar Borrmann .

Fischborn died in March 2020, a few days after his 84th birthday, in Wiesbaden.

Publications (selection)

  • Present material, historicity and dramatic structure. In: Rolf Rohmer (ed.): Writings on theater studies. Volume 5: Dramaturgy and Historicity. Henschelverlag, Berlin 1973, DNB 760098085 , pp. 275-472.
  • Piece writing - Claus Hammel , Heiner Müller , Armin Stolper . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1981, DNB 810655187 .
  • Artistic subjectivity and appropriation of reality in drama: studies on the dramatic genre in d. developed socialist. Society d. GDR in connection with d. productive activity of dramatic authors, Diss. B (habilitation thesis) Leipzig 1977, DNBH 77b / 6467
  • The Drama of the German Democratic Republic since Brecht - An Outline. In: Modern Drama, Volume 23, Number 4 / January 1981, 1981: University of Toronto, ISSN  0026-7694
  • Gottfried Fischborn, Peter Hacks: Happy resignation - interview, letters, essays, texts. Eulenspiegel Verlag, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-359-01684-7 .
  • (Ed.) Alfred Matusche : Dramas. André Thiele publishing house, Mainz am Rhein 2009, ISBN 978-3-940884-08-4 .
  • (Ed.) The song of his path - Festschrift for the poet Alfred Matusche (1909-1973). Verlag André Thiele, Mainz am Rhein 2009, ISBN 978-3-940884-07-7 .
  • Political culture and theatricality - articles, essays, journalism. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin / Bern / Bruxelles / New York / Oxford / Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-631-63251-2 .
  • Peter Hacks and Heiner Müller. Essay. Verlag André Thiele, Mainz am Rhein 2012, ISBN 978-3-940884-72-5 .
  • Occurrence.Vorcome / One year lifetime , Schkeuditzer Buchverlag, Schkeuditz 2016, ISBN 978-3-943931-04-4
  • Die Scar / Ein Ossi in the West: Chronicle of a year , published by am park at edition ost, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-947094-28-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georg Kasch: Theater scholar Gottfried Fischborn has died. Accessed April 4, 2020 (German).
  2. ^ Gottfried Fischborn: Year 36 and in Saxony . In: Gazette of June 9, 2003, accessed April 29, 2014
  3. ↑ Ute Grundmann: Learning to write on the Internet. The Leipzig theater professor Gottfried Fischborn gives instructions for scenic writing on the Internet. In: The German Stage. Das Theatermagazin, Volume 73, No. 7 / July 2002, p. 43.
personal data
SURNAME Fischborn, Gottfried
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater and literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Marienberg
DATE OF DEATH March 23, 2020
Place of death Wiesbaden