Hanns Braun (journalist)

Hanns Braun (born September 17, 1893 in Nuremberg , † September 25, 1966 in Munich ) was a German journalist , editor , theater critic and book author. He was best known as the author of a collection of literary anachronisms entitled Here, Goethe errs .

Life

Hanns Braun studied German at the Universities of Munich , Berlin and Kiel . He received his doctorate in Munich in 1916; his dissertation is entitled Grillparzer's Relationship to Shakespeare .

He started as an editorial assistant at the Münchner Zeitung in 1916 , for which he worked from 1918 as a feature section and later as a theater critic until it was banned in March 1943. He then switched to the Frankfurter Zeitung , which was also banned in the fall. For the next few months he published in the Münchner Neuesten Nachrichten , until he was banned from writing in the spring of 1944.

After the war Braun worked again as a theater critic for the Süddeutsche Zeitung , ZEIT and Rheinische Merkur . In 1949 he became an honorary professor for theater criticism at the University of Munich. In 1954 he became an associate professor for newspaper studies in Munich and a member of the German Academy for Language and Poetry .

Hanns Braun was married to the children's book illustrator Beatrice Braun-Fock .

Works

Grave with Beatrice Braun-Fock at the Grünwald forest cemetery

• Goethe is wrong here - among others. A reading of anachronisms from Homer to our time . Heimeran, Munich 1937
• In front of the scenes. In more than 20 chapters . Heimeran, Munich 1938
• The trip to East Africa . S. Fischer, Berlin 1939
• Theater in Germany . Bruckmann, Munich 1952
• Around the world in 80 days. A travel report . Süddeutscher Verlag, Munich 1964

Web links

Commons : Hanns Braun (journalist)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Hanns Braun in the catalog of the German National Library
• Hanns Braun in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)