Wolfgang Trautwein (literary scholar)

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Wolfgang Trautwein (born July 6, 1949 in Stuttgart ) is a German literary scholar and archivist . From 1987 to 2015 he was the director of the archive of the Akademie der Künste , Berlin , and has been the chairman of the working group of independent cultural institutes (AsKI) since 2015 .

Life

Trautwein studied German, philosophy and Romance languages in Stuttgart, Nice and Berlin and passed the state examination. He received his doctorate with a comparative thesis on horror literature in the 18th and 19th centuries , and from 1978 to 1983 he was a research assistant to Walter Höllerer at the Technical University of Berlin with a focus on comedy, drama forms of the 20th century and contemporary authors. From 1983 to 1986 he was managing director of the Literary Colloquium Berlin (LCB), 1986/87 secretary of the literature department of the Akademie der Künste, Berlin (West), from 1987 to 2015 director of the archive of the Akademie der Künste. Since 2015 he has been chairman of the working group of independent cultural institutes (AsKI for short).

He has been married to Elisabeth Trautwein-Heymann, the daughter of the composer Werner Richard Heymann , since 1998 and lives in Berlin and Salzburg .

Act

From 1990 to 1993, as director under President Walter Jens , Trautwein was instrumental in merging the two academy archives from East and West into a coherent, multidisciplinary institution for all of the arts represented in the academy. During his tenure, he acquired over 600 personal archives for the academy, including those of Walter Benjamin , Hanns Eisler , Walter Felsenstein , Götz Friedrich , Günter Grass , George Grosz , HAP Grieshaber , Walter Kempowski , Imre Kertész , Heiner Müller , Artur Schnabel , Christoph Schlingensief , Hanna Schygulla , George Tabori , Konrad Wachsmann , Christa Wolf , Peter Zadek and Bernd Alois Zimmermann . He was responsible for over 150 archive exhibitions, including on Carl Blechen , Bertolt Brecht , Werner Richard Heymann , Friedrich Hollaender and the cabaret of the twenties, the Jewish Cultural Association in Germany 1933–1941, Jean Pierre Ponnelle, Hans Werner Richter and Gruppe 47 , Johann Gottfried Schadow or Peter Weiss .

Publications

  • Exquisite fear, horror literature in the 18th and 19th centuries; systematic outline, studies on Bürger, Maturin, Hoffmann, Poe and Maupassant , Hanser, Munich 1980
  • Werner Richard Heymann: Berlin, Hollywood and no turning back , Hentrich & Hentrich, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-942271-37-0 (= Jewish miniatures. Volume 113)
  • Awakening into the Modern Age - The Archive of the Academy of Arts , Ed. With Julia Bernhard, AdK, Berlin 2013

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personal data
SURNAME Trautwein, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German philologist, literary scholar and archivist
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart