Maik Hamburger
Michael Pitt "Maik" Hamburger (born February 12, 1931 in Shanghai ; † January 16, 2020 in Berlin ) was a German translator , publicist and dramaturge . He was considered one of the most important Shakespeare connoisseurs in German-speaking countries.
Life
Born as the son of German bookseller and GRU - Agent Ursula Maria Hamburg and the German architect Rudolf Hamburger , spent his childhood in Hamburg China, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Switzerland, and finally in England. There he received his school education in Oxford and studied philosophy in Aberdeen . In 1951 he followed his mother, moved to the GDR and studied physics in Leipzig , where he met the future German theater director Adolf Dresen .
Hamburg's activity at the theater was mainly shaped by his almost 30 years of work as a dramaturge at the German Theater in Berlin. He became known throughout the German-speaking world for his many translations of plays by authors such as William Shakespeare , Sean O'Casey , Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams . As an author and editor , he has contributed to numerous theater studies publications, including an English-language history of German theater published by Cambridge University Press in 2008 under the title A History of German Theater .
Hamburger taught as a guest lecturer at the Leipzig Theater School , the Berlin Drama School "Ernst Busch" and at the Berlin University of the Arts and conducted workshops, including in Santa Barbara , Stanford , and Montreal . He was a member of the PEN Center Germany and for many years Vice President of the German Shakespeare Society . In 2007 he received a scholarship from the Calw Hermann Hesse Foundation .
Translated authors (selection)
- William Shakespeare (15 plays, including Hamlet , Macbeth , Romeo and Juliet , A Midsummer Night's Dream , The Merchant of Venice , Henry V ), Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Alonso Allegria , John Donne (together with the translator Christa Schuenke ), Sean O 'Casey, Donald Freed (also with Christa Schuenke), Barrie Stavis
theatre
- 1975: Georges Courteline : The cozy inspector. Director ( Deutsches Theater Berlin - Little Comedy)
- 1975: Georges Courteline: The regular guest. Director (Deutsches Theater Berlin - Little Comedy)
As editor
- Rudolf Hamburger : Ten Years of the Camp - as a German Communist in the Soviet Gulag , Settlers, Munich, 2013, ISBN 978-3-8275-0033-5 .
- Adolf Dresen : The void between the stars. Stories, Poems & Dreams , (with Renate Rätz and Alexander Weigel), in: Archiv-Blätter 20, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, 2010, ISBN 978-3-88331-148-7 .
Filmography
- 1973: The Mandatory Mandate - Lyrics (theater recording)
- 1975: Juno and the Peacock - translation with Adolf Dresen (theater recording)
- 1988: The Blue Boll - Dramaturgy (theater recording)
Web links
- Literature by and about Maik Hamburger in the catalog of the German National Library
- Maik Hamburger. In: Hermann Hesse portal. (Short biography with photo).
- Maik Hamburger: The Glasperlenspiel that was given away, or how an unread book by Hermann Hesse intervened in my life. (pdf, 78 kB) In: hermann-hesse.de. January 13, 2010 .
- Tatjana Wulfert: "This wide, global theater". Obituary for Michael Pitt Hamburger. In: Der Tagesspiegel. July 5, 2020, accessed August 8, 2020 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Kai F. Schrickel, Andreas Erfurth : Maik Hamburger is dead. In: New Globe Theater. January 16, 2020, accessed January 19, 2020 .
- ^ Neue Zeit , December 9, 1975, p. 4.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hamburger, Maik |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hamburger, Michael Pitt |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German translator, publicist and dramaturge |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 12, 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Shanghai |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 16, 2020 |
| Place of death | Berlin |