Collections by Subject: International Literature
A Selected List of Holdings in the Archives and Manuscripts Department, University of Maryland Libraries
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John Fuegi Collection,
1855-2003.
41.5 linear feet.
Location: Literary Manuscripts
John Fuegi, Clara and Robert Vambery Distinguished Professor of Comparative Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park, since 1992, holds a Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of Southern California. In addition to the University of Maryland, he has taught at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Harvard University, Wesleyan University, and at institutions in Berlin and Mainz, Germany, and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Support for Fuegi?s seventeen books and films on subjects as diverse as Virginia Woolf and 12th century nun Hildegard of Bingen came from grants and awards by the Guggenheim Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment For the Humanities, and the Danish Film Institute. An authority on the life and work of Bertolt Brecht, Fuegi was the founder if the International Brecht Society in 1970 and edited the first 14 volumes of its Proceedings. The collection contains materials related to Fuegi?s research for the book Brecht and Company: Sex, Politics, and the Making of Modern Drama [New York: Grove Press, 1994], and his award-winning film about Danish novelist Ruth Berlau, Red Ruth: That Deadly Longing [1992]. The collection consists primarily of manuscripts, research files, and publicity materials for Brecht and Company. Materials also document Dr. Fuegi?s activities in the field of Brecht scholarship through articles and audio-visual materials, records of the International Brecht Society, and significant correspondence with scholar Eric Bentley. Other materials include correspondence, clippings, and photographs relating to Bertolt Brecht?s collaborators such as the writers Elisabeth Hauptmann, Ruth Berlau, and Margaret Steffin, and the dramaturge Robert Vambery. While some are originals, others are photocopies of extremely rare material such as records from the Bertolt Brecht Archive at Harvard University.
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Clara and Robert Vambery Papers,
1929-1998.
9.00 linear feet.
Location: Literary Manuscripts
Robert Vambery (1907-1998) was born in Hungary and educated in Germany. He was the artistic director for the Theater an Schiffbauerdamm in Berlin and in this capacity was involved in the first production of Bertolt Brecht's The Threepenny Opera. While in Berlin, Vambery met his future wife, Clara Erdelyi (1909-1993), whom he would marry in 1948. Vambery left Germany in 1933 and came to the United States in 1938, where he taught in the Drama Department at Columbia University, and contributed to The Nation. The collection includes the Vamberys' correspondence, financial documents, and material relating to Robert's literary writing and research, including manuscripts of Robert Vambery's operetta Der Kuhhandel. Other materials relate to Robert Vambery's mother Olga, his grandfather Professor Arminius Vambery, and Lotte Lenya.