GB 0367 HFG - Garten, Hugo Frederick (1904-1975)

3 boxes, 1 oversize folder, 1 roll

GB 0367 HFG 1903-1975 Collection (Fonds) 3 boxes, 1 oversize folder, 1 roll Garten , Hugo Frederick , 1904-1975 , German scholar

Hugo Frederick Garten: born Hugo Friedrich Königsgarten, Brünn, Moravia, Austria, 13 Apr 1904, into a Jewish family. Educated at a Gymnasium in Berlin, and the Universites of Jena (1923), Vienna (1923-1924), Berlin (1924-1926) and Heidelberg, where he obtained his doctorate in 1930; free-lance writer in Berlin, 1928-1933; moved to Vienna, 1933 and London, 1938; teacher at New College School, Oxford, 1940-1945, and member of staff of Die Zeitung, London, 1941-1944; DPhil, Oxford, 1944; taught modern languages at Westminster School, 1946-1965; Lecturer at the Universities of Surrey and London 1965-. He was a member of the International PEN Club, the English Goethe Society and the Gerhart Hauptmann-Gesellschaft.
Married Anne Leonard Smith, 1952, no children.

Papers given by Mrs Garten, 1976

Papers of Hugo Frederick Garten (formerly Hugo Friedrich Königsgarten) (HFG), including correspondence with the expressionist playwright Georg Kaiser (GK) and his wife Margareta from the 1920s to 1940s; typescripts of work by GK; periodicals, programmes and photographs relating to productions of GK's plays; correspondence from the German playwright Gerhart Hauptmann (GH) and members of his family to HFG; newspaper cuttings on GH and his plays written on centenary of his birth in 1962; photographs of GH and letters from GH to the German Studies scholar Hermann Georg Fiedler; and letters from Stefan Zweig, Fritz von Unruh, Jakob Wassermann and his wife, Martha Wassermann-Karlweis, Robert Neumann, Friedrich Gundolf, and Alfred Weber to HFG. Also includes five metal plate prints of letters by and portraits of Gerhart Hauptmann.

Open. At least 48 hours' notice is required for research visits.

Photocopies may be made, although this is at the discretion of the Librarian and is dependent on the nature of the material.
German, English, Dutch

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The Institute holds a number of collections relating to German theatre and drama including the papers Friedrich Gundolf, Bertold Auerbach and the Archive of German Theatre.

There is an extensive collection of George Kaiser's papers at the University of Alberta, Canada, including copies of 19 letters to Letters H F Koenigsgarten [Garten], 1936-1939.

Compiled by Alan Kucia as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project. Revised by Clare George May 2020. Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000 and National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997. May 2002; May 2020. Drama European literature Garten , Hugo Frederick , 1904-1975 , German scholar x Königsgarten , Hugo Friedrich German Germanic languages German literature Gundolf , Friedrich , 1880-1931 , German literary scholar and critic x Gundelfinger , Friedrich Leopold Hauptmann , Gerhart , 1862-1946 , writer Indo-european languages Kaiser , Georg , 1878-1945 , writer Literary forms and genres Literature National literatures Neumann , Robert , 1897-1975 , writer Unruh , Fritz von , 1885-1970 , writer x von Unruh , Fritz Weber , Alfred , 1868-1958 , German scholar Zweig , Stefan , 1881-1942 , author

Papers given by Mrs Garten, 1976

Papers of Hugo Frederick Garten (formerly Hugo Friedrich Königsgarten) (HFG), including correspondence with the expressionist playwright Georg Kaiser (GK) and his wife Margareta from the 1920s to 1940s; typescripts of work by GK; periodicals, programmes and photographs relating to productions of GK's plays; correspondence from the German playwright Gerhart Hauptmann (GH) and members of his family to HFG; newspaper cuttings on GH and his plays written on centenary of his birth in 1962; photographs of GH and letters from GH to the German Studies scholar Hermann Georg Fiedler; and letters from Stefan Zweig, Fritz von Unruh, Jakob Wassermann and his wife, Martha Wassermann-Karlweis, Robert Neumann, Friedrich Gundolf, and Alfred Weber to HFG. Also includes five metal plate prints of letters by and portraits of Gerhart Hauptmann.

Open. At least 48 hours' notice is required for research visits.

Photocopies may be made, although this is at the discretion of the Librarian and is dependent on the nature of the material.

• English

• Latin

German, English, Dutch

The Institute holds a number of collections relating to German theatre and drama including the papers Friedrich Gundolf, Bertold Auerbach and the Archive of German Theatre.

Box List

There is an extensive collection of George Kaiser's papers at the University of Alberta, Canada, including copies of 19 letters to Letters H F Koenigsgarten [Garten], 1936-1939.

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000 and National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal Place and Corporate Names 1997.

• English