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Kindermann, Heinz
© Copyright Heinz Kindermann, photo 1974 Kindermann, Heinz, b. Vienna, Oct. 8, 1894, d. Vienna, Oct. 3, 1985, literature and theatre studies. From 1919 worked in the Ministry of Education, where he founded the Department of Adult Education, 1926-1936 taught literary history in Danzig, 1936-1942 at the University of Münster, 1942-1945 and 1953-1969 Professor of Theatre Studies at the University of Vienna, where he founded the Institute of Theatre Studies. His ten-volume "Theatergeschichte Europas" (History of European Theatre, 1957-1978) has become a standard work. Co-founder of the M.-Reinhardt research and memorial centre in Salzburg. Further works: Das Burgtheater, 1939; Hebbel und das Wr. Theater seiner Zeit, 1943; Lexikon der Weltliteratur, 1950 (with M. Dietrich); Das Goethebild des 20. Jh., 1953; Das Theaterpublikum der Antike, 1979; Das Theaterpublikum des MA, 1980; Das Theaterpublikum der Renaiss., 2 vols., 1984/1986. - From 1955 editor of the magazine "Maske und Kothurn".
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