Metadata : Garten, Hugo Frederick (1904-1975)
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- Senate House Library, University of London
- Holding institution (official language):
- Senate House Library, University of London
- Postal address:
- Senate House Library,University of London,Malet Street London Greater London United Kingdom WC1E 7HU
- Phone number:
- Telephone: 020 7862 8500
- Web address:
- https://london.ac.uk/senate-house-library
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- Senate House Library, University of London
- Holding institution (official language):
- Senate House Library, University of London
- Postal address:
- Senate House Library,University of London,Malet Street London Greater London United Kingdom WC1E 7HU
- Phone number:
- Telephone: 020 7862 8500
- Web address:
- https://london.ac.uk/senate-house-library
- Reference number:
- HFG
- Title:
- Garten, Hugo Frederick (1904-1975)
- Title (official language):
- Garten, Hugo Frederick (1904-1975)
- Creator/accumulator:
- Garten, Hugo Frederick, 1904-1975, German scholar
- Date(s):
- 1903/1975
- Language:
- English
- Dutch; Flemish
- German
- Extent:
- 3 boxes, 1 oversize folder, 1 roll
- Scope and content:
- 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.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- 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.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Garten, Hugo Frederick
- Hauptmann, Gerhart
- Kaiser, Georg
- Kaiser, Margareta
- Subject terms:
- Literature
- Access, restrictions:
- Open. At least 48 hours' notice is required for research visits.
- Finding aids:
- Online catalogue see https://archives.libraries.london.ac.uk/Details/archive/110019326Box List
- Yerusha Network member:
- AIM25
- Author of the description:
- Compiled by Alan Kucia as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project. Revised by Clare George May 2020.
- Reference number:
- HFG
- Title:
- Garten, Hugo Frederick (1904-1975)
- Title (official language):
- Garten, Hugo Frederick (1904-1975)
- Creator/accumulator:
- Garten, Hugo Frederick, 1904-1975, German scholar
- Date(s):
- 1903/1975
- Language:
- English
- Dutch; Flemish
- German
- Extent:
- 3 boxes, 1 oversize folder, 1 roll
- Scope and content:
- 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.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- 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.
- Access points: persons/families:
- Garten, Hugo Frederick
- Hauptmann, Gerhart
- Kaiser, Georg
- Kaiser, Margareta
- Subject terms:
- Literature
- Access, restrictions:
- Open. At least 48 hours' notice is required for research visits.
- Finding aids:
- Online catalogue see https://archives.libraries.london.ac.uk/Details/archive/110019326Box List
- Yerusha Network member:
- AIM25
- Author of the description:
- Compiled by Alan Kucia as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project. Revised by Clare George May 2020.
