Hugo Fetting

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Hugo Fetting (* 1923 in Marienhof ; † March 11, 2020 in Berlin ) was a German theater scholar .

Life

Hugo Fetting attended elementary and trade school in Güstrow and, like his father, became a railway worker before he was called up as a soldier. In 1946 he joined the SPD ; when the SPD and KPD were forced to form the SED , he resigned. In 1952 - the GDR had been founded in the meantime - he was admitted to study through the gifted examination and studied German , theater studies and art history in Rostock and East Berlin .

From 1952 he worked at the Academy of the Arts in the GDR . He received his doctorate in Greifswald in 1978 with a dissertation on the Prussian theater director August Wilhelm Iffland . He also worked for the Deutsche Staatsoper Berlin and had been employed at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR since the 1970s . He edited various theatrical works and phonograms, primarily on behalf of the two academies; Max Reinhardt is his specialty . Fetting is the author of the first Ernst Busch biography, which was published by Henschel-Verlag in 1965 . In the 1980s, his journalistic contributions to the theater in the GDR were also published in newspapers in the Federal Republic.

In 2013 it became known that in 2010 Fetting had offered his private collection of theater history to the Berlin Academy of the Arts for sale, including a collection of letters from the Prussian theater director August Wilhelm Iffland . He stated that he saved them from destruction or loss in Berlin in the 1950s. Research showed that Fetting's portrayal of the events is unlikely. Between 1929 and 1945 the collection of letters from the archive of the Prussian State Theaters was in the holdings of the Berlin Theater Museum, which was closed at the end of the war .

Fetting lived for many years in the Berlin district of Prenzlauer Berg .

Fonts

  • (Ed.): Max Reinhardt. I am nothing but a theater man. Letters, speeches, essays, interviews, conversations, excerpts from director's books. Henschel, Berlin 1989.
  • (Ed.): From the free stage to political theater: Drama and theater in the mirror of criticism. Reclam, Leipzig 1987.
  • with Klaus Hermsdorf and Silvia Schlenstedt : Exile in the Netherlands and Spain. Reclam, Leipzig 1981.
  • (Ed.): Alfred Kerr . With slingshot and harp. Theatrical reviews from three decades. Henschel, Berlin 1981.
  • The repertoire of the Berlin Royal National Theater under the direction of August Wilhelm Iffland (1796-1814) taking into account the artistic principles and cultural-political factors of its design. Greifswald 1978 (Univ., Diss. A).
  • (Ed.): Max Reinhardt. About acting. Association of Theater Professionals of the GDR, Berlin 1973.
  • with Herbert Ihering : Ernst Busch . Henschel, Berlin 1965.
  • Max Burghardt . Henschel, Berlin 1965.
  • (Ed.): Otto Brahm . Theater, playwright, actor . German Academy of the Arts, Henschel, Berlin 1961.
  • The history of the German State Opera . Henschel, Berlin 1955.
  • (Ed.): Conrad Ekhof : An actor of the 18th century. German Academy of Arts, Henschel, Berlin 1954.

literature

  • Ruth Freydank : The case of the Berlin Theater Museum Part I: History - Images - Documents; Part II. Relics of a former theater library - documentation . Berlin: pro business, 2011.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Jochen Voit: Hugo Fetting. About the genesis of the first Ernst Busch biography in German and the work on the Aurora record booklets ( Memento of the original from January 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Interview with Hugo Fetting 2004, at erinnerorte @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.erinnerorte.de
  2. ↑ Jürgen Kaube : The Iffland robber pistol , in: FAZ , January 7, 2014
  3. ↑ Regina Mönch : Let's call it an irrevocable donation from Vienna. The archive of the greatest Prussian theater man, August Wilhelm Iffland, finds its way back to Berlin . In: FAZ, March 27, 2014, p. 11.
  4. ↑ Stephan Speicher: The treasure, the garbage and the law . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung , January 11, 2014, p. 16
personal data
SURNAME Fetting, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Marienhof
DATE OF DEATH March 11, 2020
Place of death Berlin