Hermann Kaiser (theater critic)

Hermann Kaiser (pseudonym: Theodor Ginster) (born April 6, 1889 in Darmstadt ; † October 14, 1978 ibid) was a German theater critic and educator.

Life

Kaiser studied music at the University of Munich and taught the subject at the Ludwig-Georgs-Gymnasium in Darmstadt after the First World War . At the same time he worked as an influential theater critic for various newspapers. He belonged to a group of artists in Darmstadt who actively promoted modernism and expressionism. These included Kasimir Edschmid , Theodor Haubach and Carlo Mierendorff . In the 1920s he wrote the libretto for the opera Valerio by Hans Simon based on Georg Büchner's play Leonce and Lena . He was closely associated with the Hessian State Theater, whose history he not only wrote after 1945, but whose materials he also began to collect after 1933, when he was no longer allowed to work as a journalist for political reasons. An extensive theater collection emerged that survived the destruction of Darmstadt in World War II and is now kept in the university and state library.

Hermann Kaiser was buried in the old cemetery in Darmstadt (grave site: II J 129).

literature

• Baroque theater in Darmstadt. History of the theater of a German residence in the 17th and 18th centuries. Roether, Darmstadt 1951.
• From the time theater to the Sellner stage. The Darmstadt State Theater from 1933-1960. Written on behalf of the City of Darmstadt's magistrate on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Darmstadt Theater. Roether, Darmstadt 1961.
• The Grand Ducal Court Theater in Darmstadt 1810-1910. Roether, Darmstadt 1964.
• The stage master Carl Brandt and Richard Wagner . Art of the scene in Darmstadt and Bayreuth. Roether, Darmstadt 1968.
• The Darmstadt dialect and the Hessian game community. Roether, Darmstadt 1974.

Web links

• Literature by and about Hermann Kaiser in the catalog of the German National Library