Hans Schwab-Felisch

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Hans Schwab-Felisch (born November 2, 1918 in Dresden , † October 19, 1989 in Herdecke ) was a German journalist and literary historian .

Life

Hans Schwab-Felisch was born as the son of the journalist and resistance fighter Alexander Schwab in Dresden and grew up in Berlin. His paternal grandfather is the admiralty and writer Paul Felisch . In 1939 he became a soldier and was wounded in the war. During the war he began studying German in Berlin and volunteered as a journalist at the Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung . From 1945 he studied in Tübingen and worked as a journalist for the Kurier in Berlin. In 1949 he became editor of the Berlin edition of the Neue Zeitung , in 1955 of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung . From 1978 to 1983 Schwab-Felisch was editor of the Merkur magazine .

In 1963 Schwab-Felisch published an annotated edition of Gerhart Hauptmann's drama Die Weber . He was a professor at the University of Witten / Herdecke .

Works

  • Gerhart Hauptmann. The weavers. Poetry and Reality . Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main / Berlin 1963. (9th edition. Ullstein, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-548-24047-X )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Hans Schwab-Felisch in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
  2. ^ Obituary in the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger on October 23, 1989.
  3. ^ German biography: Hans Schwab-Felisch. Retrieved February 25, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Schwab-Felisch, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist and literary historian
DATE OF BIRTH November 2, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH October 19, 1989
Place of death Herdecke