Kurt Hirschfeld Collection 1910-1966

This collection contains manuscripts, lectures, clippings, photos, notebooks by Kurt Hirschfeld and others concerning the theater, plays, director's scripts, photos, and set designs.The collection includes correspondence of Hirschfeld with various individuals and institutions, including the following: Theodor Adorno, Max Brod, Friedrich Duerrenmatt, Lion Feuchtwanger, Fega Frisch, Erich Kaestner, Siegfried Kracauer, Ludwig Marcuse, Robert Musil, Martha Musil, Max Ophuls, Erwin Piscator, Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Hans Sahl, Salman Schocken, Carlo Schmidt, Friedrich Torberg, Paul Tillich, Thornton Wilder, and Carl Zuckmayer.The following individuals are also mentioned in this collection: Adenauer, Konrad; Bergengruen, Werner; Brecht, Bertolt; Frisch, Efraim; Haas, Willy; Kesten, Hermann; Scholem, Gershom; and Wilhelm, Kurt.Born in Lehrte on March 10, 1902, Kurt Hirschfeld was a theatrical director and dramaturge in Darmstadt and, following his emigration to Switzerland in 1933, at the Neues Schauspielhaus, Zurich. He died in Zurich on November 8, 1964.digitize