Partner Werner Pochath
Queer Places:
Villa Sisina, Via Aiano di Sopra, 80073 Capri NA
Cimitero acattolico (Protestant Cemetery), Via Marina Grande, 80076 Capri NA
Hansgerhard Weiss (May 7, 1902 - May 25, 1982) was a German writer and literary scholar. He built the (Gerhart and Carl) Hauptmann Archive Radebeul in the Radebeul Erauler Hohenhaus.
He lived in Capri, Italy, with his younger partner, the actor Werner Pochath.
He was the son of Friedrich Hermann Markus (1869-1913), writer, Higher Regional Court Councillor, and Gertrud Mathilde Voigt (born 1877). His siblings were: Anneliese Hermine Dorothea (born 1899); Ernst-Günther Hermann Markus (1904-1905); Helmut Ludwig Johann-Georg (1907-1969), actor, screenwriter, film director; Ursula (1909-1960).
Hansgerhard Weiss, writer, literary scholar and Hauptmann collector, moved from Dresden-Hellerau to Radebeul in 1947 in the Hohenhaus. After the Hauptmann Memorial was opened there on 14 November 1948[1], Weiss' large collection of Gerhart Hauptmann and Carl Hauptmann works, as well as additional secondary literature on these two, formed the basis for the Radebeuler Hauptmann Archive, which was opened in the Hohenhaus on 6 June 1949, which Hansgerhard Weiss initially also managed. In 1950 Weiss moved to West Germany, while the Hauptmann Archive was moved to the Kavalierhaus of the Hoflößnitz and in 1961 to Bennostraße 41 (Villa Steinbach). The best known of Weiss's numerous novels, radio plays and biographies is the documentary novel The Sisters of the House, dated in 1938, about the three Thienemann daughters Marie, Martha and Adele, who married Gerhart and Carl Hauptmann and their brother Georg. In addition, he was the editor of Bernhard Weiss (1827-1918).
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