Herbert Scheffler

Herbert Scheffler (* 1899 ; † 1947 ) was a German theater and radio play author as well as theater director and author of prose and literary criticism .

Life

Among other things, he received applause as a director in 1925 for his production of Don Juan and Faust at the Bremen Schauspielhaus , where he often directed. He also worked on his own chamber play Das Land im Rück (1926), for which he received the Bremen Acting Prize, as a radio play.

After 1945 Scheffler worked in Hamburg. Other independent stage works, some based on foreign playwrights such as Daudet , include Die Tantenkomödie and Penelope Waits (both 1947).

Web links

Literature by and about Herbert Scheffler in the catalog of the German National Library

Single receipts

↑ Heinrich Hart u. a. (Ed.): Kürschner's German Literature Calendar. Leipzig 1949, p. 539.
↑ Wilhelm Berner a. a. (Bremer Theater-Gesellschaft): 33 years of the Bremer Schauspielhaus in the mirror of contemporary criticism. Schünemann 1956, p. 116 ff.
↑ Rainer Strzolka: Outlining the history of the radio play in the Weimar Republic. Koechert 2004, p. 28.
^ Ludwig Fischer: Then there were the winners: Studies on literary culture in Hamburg 1945–1950. Dölling and Galitz 1999.

personal data
SURNAME	Scheffler, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German author
DATE OF BIRTH	1899
DATE OF DEATH	1947

[1] Heinrich Hart u. a. (Ed.): Kürschner's German Literature Calendar. Leipzig 1949, p. 539.

[2] Wilhelm Berner a. a. (Bremer Theater-Gesellschaft): 33 years of the Bremer Schauspielhaus in the mirror of contemporary criticism. Schünemann 1956, p. 116 ff.

[3] Rainer Strzolka: Outlining the history of the radio play in the Weimar Republic. Koechert 2004, p. 28.

[4] Ludwig Fischer: Then there were the winners: Studies on literary culture in Hamburg 1945–1950. Dölling and Galitz 1999.