Max Herrmann (theatrologist)

Max Herrmann ( born May 14, 1865 in Berlin, † November 17, 1942 in Theresienstadt ) was a German historian of literature and theater studies.

Life

After graduation in 1884, he studied Germanic philology and history in Freiburg, Göttingen and Berlin. After his habilitation Albrecht von Eyb he taught from 1891 as Associate Professor of Germanic Philology at the Friedrich- Wilhelms- University of Berlin. 1898 married Helene Herrmann Herrmann, born Schlesinger. After his appointment as professor in 1903, he also worked as a freelance lecturer and engaged in numerous companies, such as the Society of theater history. In 1916, he founded the German private library and manuscript prints in the Berlin State Library.

1900 held Max Herrmann the first theater studies courses within the Germanistisches Institute at the University of Berlin. In his study of Goethe funfair in Plundersweilern he did not confine himself to a mere study of the sources, but referred the stage with a history of the work. In 1914 he published his major work research on the German theater history of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, in which he clarified his theater studies approach.

Herrmann appeared consistently for the emancipation of theater studies from the German. In 1919 he became a professor at the Berlin University. When in 1923 the Theatre Research Institute was opened, Herrmann was his alternate director jointly with Julius Petersen.

1933 Teaching Max Herrmann was put an abrupt end. It was not until he was forcibly retired, on 10 September 1942, he was deported together with his wife, Helene, with the 63rd Berlin transport in the so-called " old-age ghetto " Theresienstadt. He died there on 17 November 1942. Until recently he played under severe disabilities ( he was allowed to see, for example, in the Berlin State Library only standing books) on his book The Origin of a professional basis dramatic art in antiquity and in modern times worked. Herrmann's student Ruth Movius (1908-1989) rescued the manuscript, but it was only published in 1962 in East Berlin Henschelverlag.

The Berlin State Library will award each year on 10 May, the day of the Nazi book burning, the Max Herrmann- price of the Friends of the State Library.

In the Berlin district of Marzahn - Heller village a road and a tram stop are named after Max Herrmann.

On 17 November 2008 was laid a stumbling block in the Augsburger Straße in Berlin- Charlottenburg in front of his former home.

Works

  • Research on the German theater history of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Weidmann, Berlin, 1914.
  • The stage of Hans Sachs An open letter to Albert Koster. Weidmannsche bookstore, Berlin 1928
  • The emergence of a professional basis dramatic art in antiquity and in modern times. Edited and with an obituary of Ruth Movius. Henschel, Berlin 1962.
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