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Guillermo Schmidhuber

Guillermo Schmidhuber de la Mora (born 1943, Mexico city) is a Mexican author, playwright, and critic.

Career

Among his most notable works are: Obituary, The Useless Heroes, The Heirs of Segismund, The Secret Friendship of Juana and Dorothy, and Never Say Adiós to Columbus. His novel Women of the Tequila Volcano was published simultaneously in Argentina and Mexico. He has published several books on Mexican theatre, especially on the works of Rodolfo Usigli and Elena Garro. As a playwright he has won several prizes, including the Letras de Oro for best work in Spanish written in the United States (University of Miami 1987), and the National Award of Theatre by the Mexican government (INBA 1980). His plays have been translated into German, French and English.

He was professor at the University of Louisville and the University of Kentucky from 1986 to 1993. He is currently a professor at the University of Guadalajara, the second largest university in Mexico. He helped discover two previously lost texts of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz; one of them, The Second Celestina, was published with a prologue by Octavio Paz.

From 1995 to 2001 he served as the Cultural Attaché for the Mexican state of Jalisco

Selected work

Schmidhuber's bibliography covers 120 books or chapters. Some of his writings are:

"Juan de Guevara, colaborador"
"Antonio Núñez de Miranda, confesor. Testamento místico," by Antonio Núñez de Miranda
"Protesta de la fe y renovación de votos," of sor Juana Inés de al Cruz
"Diego Calleja, biógrafo. El zurriago," by Luis de Salazar y Castro
"Manuel Fernández de Santa Cruz, catalizador"
"Juan Ignacio de Castorena, editor"
"Dorothy Schons, primera crítica"
Toluca: Instituto Mexiquense de Cultural, 2014. ISBN 978-607-758-8986

Family

Guillermo Schmidhuber is the son of Guillermo Schmidhuber y Martínez (1913–1945) and Josefina de la Mora y Peña (1913–1990). He lives in Guadalajara, Mexico, where he continues writing plays and articles in the company of his wife and three children.[1]

Notes and references

General citations

  1. Dictionary of Mexican Literature (search term: "G. Schmidhuber"), Eladio Cortés (ed.), Greenwood Press (1992); OCLC 463936838
  2. Sueños: Aproximaciones a la Dramaturgia de Guillermo Schmidhuber, by Lourdes Betanzos, Ediciones Universal (2006); OCLC 837018633
  3. "El armario de las abuelas de Guillermo Schmidhuber de la Mora: Articulación de la imagen femenina en una genealogía de mujeres" (en Antología crítica del teatro breve hispanoamericano, 1948–1993), by Magda Castellvi de Moor, Antología Crítica del Teatro Breve Hispanoamericano, Medellín (publisher), Colombia: University of Antioquia, 1997, pps. 321–327; OCLC 38196233
  4. "Burdensome Heritages in Los Herederos de Segimuno," by Denise M. DiPuccio, Revista de Literatura Latinoamerciana, Vol. 19, No 2 (November 1990): 43–50; OCLC 612330396, 769360089
  5. "El Valor de la Libertad en el Teatro de Guillermo Schmidhuber de la Mora," by Christine D. Martines, Latin American Theater Review, Vol 24, No. 1 (Fall 1990): 29–39; ISSN 2161-0576, 0023-8813
  6. "Hablar del Teatro: Repeticióon y Espejismo," by Bonnie Hildebrand Reynolds, Revista del Ateneo Puertorriqueño, Vol 3, No. 9 (September 1993): 169–177; OCLC 28365154
  7. "¿El teatro riñe con la política en Por las Tierras de Colón?," by Lady Rojas-Tempe, Latin American Theatre Review, Vol. 25, No. 1 (Fall 1991): pps. 115–122; ISSN 2161-0576, 0023-8813

Inline citations

  1. ^ Peña-Doria, Olga Martha (1995). Volición y metateatralidad: El teatro de Guillermo Schmidhuber. Mexico: Universidad de Guadalajara. OCLC 490284579.