Frank Wollman

Prof. Dr. Frank Wollman (1888–1969) was a Czech literary historian, Slavist, writer, poet and playwright, a member of the Prague Linguistic Circle. He studied ethnography and comparative literature in Prague and Berlin. Founder of the Theatrology major at the Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Brno. For about ten years he researched, wrote and published special works on the drama of the southern Slavs: "Serbo-Croatian Dramaturgy" (1924), followed by "Slovenian Dramaturgy" (1925), "Bulgarian Dramaturgy" (1928) and finally - by "Dramaturgy of the Slavic South" (1930), including in this alone 838 titles by 310 playwrights (there are fifty-three Bulgarians, represented by 134 works). Thus he made a complete cycle of studies tracing the development and specificity of the respective dramaturgies, dividing them not by nationality, but by language.