The art of dramaturg and translator in Germany: the exemplary case of Ludwig Tieck

Abstract

Ludwig Tieck’s employment as dramaturg at the Dresden Theatre, after he had already translated Don Quixote and was in the process of completing the important translation of Shakespeare’s works, as well as the frequent references to the regenerative power of translation by Goethe and the philosophers of the Jena circle, indicate a possible link between the ‘poetic’ work of the dramaturg and the practice and philosophy of translation, and the unaccidental appearance in Germany of this new type of theatre professional.