Garten, Hugo Frederick (1904-1975)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0367 HFG
Held at	: Institute of Modern Languages   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://modernlanguages.sas.ac.uk/library ›
Full title	: Garten, Hugo Frederick (1904-1975)
Date(s)	: 1903-1975
Level of description	: Collection (Fonds)
Extent	: 3 boxes, 1 oversize folder, 1 roll
Name of creator(s)	: Garten | Hugo Frederick | 1904-1975 | German scholar
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Context

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.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

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.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
German, English, Dutch

System of arrangement:

Conditions governing access:

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

Conditions governing reproduction:

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

Finding aids:

Box List

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Papers given by Mrs Garten, 1976

Allied Materials

Related material:

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.

National Register of Archives: Click here to view NRA record

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Compiled by Alan Kucia as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project. Revised by Clare George May 2020.

Rules or conventions:
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.

Date(s) of descriptions:
May 2002; May 2020.