Background
Walther Volbach was born on December 24, 1897 in Mainz, Germany. In 1936 he immigrated to the United States and became naturalized citizen.
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Walther Volbach was born on December 24, 1897 in Mainz, Germany. In 1936 he immigrated to the United States and became naturalized citizen.
A 1918 graduate of Tuebingen, Volbach earned a doctorate at the University of Muenster in 1920.
Volbach devoted his career to the theater, first as a stage director in Berlin, Zurich, Kiel, Danzig, Stuttgart, and Vienna, and later as an educator in the subjects of drama and opera at universities in the United States. Volbach’s stage career spanned sixteen years, before his immigration to the United States and a job at Marquette University from 1939 to 1941.He was the director of opera at the Cleveland Institute of Music for the next two years, followed by a twelve-year stint as a professor of drama and director of theater and opera at Texas Christian University. From 1958 until 1965, he led the school’s department of theater arts. Beginning in 1965, he was a visiting professor at the University of Massachusetts. A translator of plays by writers such as Schiller and Montherlant, he wrote a biography of Appia called "Adolphe Appia: Prophet of the Modem Theater." His other writings include "Problems of Opera Production" and "Memoirs of Max Reinhardt’s Theatres, 1920-1922."
