Ruth Freydank

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Ruth Freydank (* 1935 in Berlin ) is a German theater scholar .

School and education

After completing school and training to be a kindergarten teacher, as well as three years of professional activity in this area, she graduated from secondary school.

This was followed by a year-long activity as an editor in Potsdam. Her studies in history , German studies and theater studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin graduating Ruth Freydank in 1966 with the diploma.

Professional Activities

Ruth Freydank was a research assistant and secretary of the literature , theater and music museums section at the Institute for Museum Affairs in the GDR . From 1975 she was a research assistant, then head of the department of Berlin theater, literature and music history at the Märkisches Museum Berlin. In 1978 an external doctorate followed to become Dr. phil. with the topic "The Social Determination of Cultural Needs - An Investigation of the Relationship between Museum and Visitor". The work was on the list of bans in the GDR.

Ruth Freydank realized numerous exhibitions, lectures and publications, primarily on Berlin's cultural and theater history. Her main work, published in 1988, is the book “Theater in Berlin. From the beginning to 1945 ”.

Honors

Works

  • The case of the Berlin Theater Museum. Part I: History - Pictures - Documents; Part II: Relics of a Former Theater Library - Documentation. Berlin: Pro BUSINESS, 2011, ISBN 3-86805-901-6
  • Theater as a business. Berlin and its private theaters around the turn of the century. Berlin: Edition Hentrich 1995 ISBN 3-89468-187-X
  • The Rose Theater. A people's theater in East Berlin from 1906–1944. (German past. Vol. 64). Berlin: Edition Hentrich 1991, 211 pp. [Together with Michael Baumgarten], ISBN 3-89468-020-2
  • Theater in Berlin. From the beginning until 1945. Berlin: Hentschel and Argon 1988, ISBN 3-362-00236-6

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brief appreciation of the book in Der Spiegel , 1988.
personal data
SURNAME Freydank, Ruth
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Käpernick, Ruth (former name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theater scholar
DATE OF BIRTH 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin