Manfred Brauneck

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Manfred Brauneck (born April 22, 1934 in Königszelt , Silesia ) is a German university professor , literary scholar , theater scholar and theater historian .

Life

Manfred Brauneck is the son of a Silesian painter . His father also designed sets for a city theater . After attending school, Brauneck studied literature, philosophy and art history at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . After a university career, his habilitation followed with a habilitation thesis on naturalism in European theater .

In 1973 he accepted the position of professor at the chair for theater studies at the University of Hamburg and, as director, organized the Hamburg theater collection there, a kind of museum for stage sets, text books, theater photos and a library, based on an idea of ​​the then President of the University of Hamburg, Professor Peter Fischer -Appeals to a newly established center for theater research. In 1987 he developed together with the director Juergen Flimm a new concept for the course drama theater direction . Among his students was the dramaturge Bernd Stegemann .

Although he was able to retire in 1999 , he extended his employment contract for three years and became emeritus in 2002 . Nonetheless, he retained the provisional leadership of the chair for some time and also advocated the establishment of a postgraduate course in dramaturgy .

In September 2010 he was awarded the Balzan Prize for his research on the “history of theater in all its forms of expression” .

Works

In addition to his teaching activities, he is also the author of numerous specialist books and began writing the five-volume standard work Die Welt als Bühne in 1992 . History of European Theater. His other publications include:

  • Sixt Birck: All the dramas. Edited by Hildegard Brauneck by v. Manfred Brauneck, Vol. 1: Ezechas. Zorabel. Joseph. Beel. (Editions of German literature from the 15th to 18th centuries, Vol. 12) Berlin 1969 ISBN 978-3-11-000359-8 ; Vol. 2: The German Pieces. Edited by Wolfgang Brauneck The Latin pieces. Edited by Manfred Wacht (editions of German literature from the 15th to 18th centuries, vol. 67) Berlin 1976, ISBN 978-3-11-006758-3 ; Vol. 3: Latin Dramas. Edited by Manfred Wacht (Editions of German literature from the 15th to 18th centuries, vol. 95) Berlin 1976, ISBN 978-3-11-008391-0
  • The German drama from Expressionism to the present. Interpretations. CC Buchners, Bamberg 1970, ISBN 9783766143037 ; 2nd expanded edition 1972; 3rd edition 1977
  • Religious folk art. DuMont, Cologne 1979, ISBN 3-7701-0967-8
  • Theater in the 20th century. Rowohlt, Reinbek near Hamburg 1982, ISBN 3-499-16290-3
  • Foreign theater in the Federal Republic of Germany and in West Berlin. 1. Working report on the research project “Popular Theater Culture”. Published by the University of Hamburg, Hamburg 1983
  • Erwin Piscator : Zeittheater. The political theater and other writings. 1915-66. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1986 (co-editor Peter Stertz)
  • Naturalism. Manifestos and documents on German literature 1880–1900. Metzler, Stuttgart 1987 (co-editor Christine Müller)
  • Classics of theater directing. Positions and comments on theater in the 20th century. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1988, ISBN 3-499-55477-1
  • Author lexicon of German-language literature of the 20th century. Rowohlt, Reinbek 1995
  • 100 years of the Deutsches Schauspielhaus Hamburg. Dölling and Galitz, Hamburg, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-933374-34-0
  • Theater Lexicon 1. Terms and epochs, stages and ensembles. Rowohlt, Reinbek, 5th completely revised new edition August 2007, ISBN 978-3-499-55673-9 (co-editor Gérard Schneilin)
  • Theater Lexicon 2. Actors and directors, stage managers, dramaturges and stage designers. Hamburg 2007 (co-editor Wolfgang Beck)
  • Small world history of the theater. CH Beck, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-406-66851-7 .

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ OSTSEE-ZEITUNG: 2010 Balzan Prize for Manfred Brauneck (September 6, 2010) ( Memento from January 5, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
  2. ↑ Schwäbische Zeitung: 2010 Balzan Prize for Manfred Brauneck (September 6, 2010)
personal data
SURNAME Brauneck, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German literary and theater scholar
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH King tent