The ''Deutsche Theater-Lexikon'' is, according to its subtitle, a "biography and bibliography manual". The

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lists stage actors from the German-speaking area. The

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leads the ''Deutsche Theater-Lexikon'' under the citation form "Kosch Theater""Kosch Theater" in Abgrenzung zum "Kosch", dem ebenfalls von Wilhelm Kosch herausgegebenen '' Deutsches Literatur-Lexikon''. in the list of the "Fachliche Nachschlagewerke for the

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“.Compare the information in the catalogue of the

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History

The handbook was founded in 1953 by

Wilhelm Kosch Wilhelm Franz Josef Kosch (2 October 1879 – 20 December 1960) was an Austrian historian of literature and theatre and lexicographer. The lexicon that he conceived and later revised several times, the ' is a references in the field of German lit ...

and was continued from the third volume by Hanspeter Bennwitz and Ingrid Bigler-Marschall. From 1953 to 2012, seven volumes were published (from Vol. 1: ''A-Hurk'' to Vol. 7: ''Wolbring-Zysset''), plus three supplementary volumes since 2012 (as of November 2015). Until the second volume, the work was published by Kleinmayr (Klagenfurt and Vienna). The following volumes were published by Verlag Francke in Bern and Verlag Saur in Zurich and Munich.

Published volumes

* Vol. 1: ''A–Hurk'', 1953 * Vol. 2: ''Hurka–Pallenberg'', 1960 * Vol. 3: ''Pallenberg–Singer'', 1992 * Vol. 4: ''Singer–Tzschoppe'', 1998 * Vol. 5: ''Uber–Weisbach'', 2004 * Vol. 6: ''Weisbrod–Wolansky'', 2008 * Vol. 7: ''Wolbring–Zysset'', 2012 Supplementary volumes (since 2012)

Literature

* Walter Hinck: ''Deutsches Theater-Lexikon''. In ''Arbitrium. Zeitschrift für Rezensionen zur germanistischen Literaturwissenschaft'', Jg. 1993, Heft 2, (Review of volumes 1-3, published from 1953 to 1992)

References

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