Heinrich Theodor Rötscher

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Heinrich Theodor Rötscher (1803 – April 9, 1871) was a German theatre critic and theorist.

Rötscher was born in Mittenwalde, and studied philology and philosophy at the University of Berlin. From 1828 he was a gymansium teacher in Bromberg (modern-day Bydgoszcz, Poland). In 1842 he moved back to Berlin and dedicated himself to writing and theorizing about theatre.

He began his career with Aristophanes und sein Zeitalter (1827), an attempt to understand the ancient Greek comedian Aristophones in light of Hegel's philosophy. He wrote a number of other works on the theatre, including Die Kunst der dramatischen Darstellung (1864), an attempt to treat theatre criticism in a scientific manner.

[edit] Selected works

Aristophanes und sein Zeitalter (1827)
Abhandlungen zur Philosophie der Kunst (1837–47)
Die Kunst der dramatischen Darstellung (1841–46)
Das Schauspielwesen (1843)
Über Byrons Manfred (1844)
Seydelmanns Leben und Wirken (1845)
Die Kunst der dramatischen Darstellung (1864)
Dramaturgische und ästhetische Abhandlungen (1864, 1867)
Dramaturgische Blätter (1865)
Entwickelung dramatischer Charaktere aus Lessings, Schillers und Goethes Werken (1869)