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.
Hugo Frederick Garten papers
This material is held atInstitute of Modern Languages Research, University of London
- Reference
- GB 367 HFG
- Dates of Creation
- 1903-1975
- Name of Creator
- Language of Material
- English German Dutch
- Physical Description
- 3 boxes, 1 oversize folder, 1 roll
Scope and Content
Administrative / Biographical History
Hugo Frederick Garten: born Hugo Friedrich Königsgarten, Brünn [now Brno], Moravia, 13 April 1904, into a Jewish family. Educated at a Gymnasium in Berlin, and the Universities 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.
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Acquisition Information
Given by Mrs Garten, 1976
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