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Frederick H. Koch came to Chapel Hill in 1918 at President Edward Kidder Graham's invitation, taught dramatic literature and playwriting at UNC for twenty-six years and organized the Carolina Playmakers to stage his students' plays. Thomas Wolfe and Paul Green were among the writers he guided. He died in 1944 and was buried in the old Chapel Hill Cemetery.
Source: NCpedia: Koch, Frederick Henry
Also found in catalogs as Frederick H. (Frederick Henry) Koch.
1877–1944 as the Library of Congress records it · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster as Frederick H. "Proff" Koch → · Library of Congress authority record ↗
14 indexed works are connected with this person, and the index includes one work by Frederick H. Koch.
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The second series of one-act plays from the Carolina Playmakers, the UNC theater company Frederick Koch founded in 1918, published in 1922. Includes Thomas Wolfe's 'The Return of Buck Gavin', 'Fixin's' by Paul and Erma Green, and plays by Elizabeth Lay, Lucy Cobb and Frances Gray, with appendices listing Playmakers productions.
Brief biography of Frederick Henry Koch (1877-1944), founder of the Carolina Playmakers at the University of North Carolina, by Samuel Selden and Mary Tom Sphangos, with notes by Jonathan Daniels and others. It reprints Koch's own essay 'Folk playmaking' on pages 59 to 68. Published by the University of North Carolina Library in 1954, viii and 92 pages with illustrations and a portrait.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the Durham record: Koch, Frederick H. 1877-1944.
Reviewed in Educational Theatre Journal (1956).
Cecelia Moore on the Carolina Playmakers, the folk drama company Frederick H. Koch built at the University of North Carolina. The text is the talk she gave on April 8, 2014 in Wilson Library for the Gladys Hall Coates university history lecture series, printed by the university. Topics include the Playmakers, Koch and theatrical companies in Chapel Hill.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Koch, Frederick H. (Frederick Henry), 1877-1944.
Frederick H. Koch looks back on twenty-five years of the Carolina Playmakers, the folk drama company he founded at the University of North Carolina. Detached from the June 1944 Bulletin of the National Theatre Conference and printed in Cleveland, it concerns theater in Chapel Hill and Koch himself, who died in the same year the piece appeared.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Koch, Frederick H. (Frederick Henry), 1877-1944.
Agatha Boyd Adams prepared this 1949 mimeographed typescript about letters by Thomas Wolfe (1900 to 1938) that came to the university library at Chapel Hill. Frederick H. Koch lived from 1877 to 1944. The correspondence is associated with the library's North Carolina Collection.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Koch, Frederick H. (Frederick Henry), 1877-1944.
Frank Porter Graham writing in 1946 for the Koch Memorial Theatre, published at Chapel Hill by the Carolina Playmakers at the University of North Carolina. The theatre was to honor Frederick H. Koch, the Playmakers' founder, who died in 1944. Topics include theaters and university buildings at Chapel Hill.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Koch, Frederick H. (Frederick Henry), 1877-1944.
How the Koch Memorial Theatre at Chapel Hill was to be built and endowed, set out in 1946 as the campaign in memory of Frederick H. Koch went forward. Topics include theaters and the buildings of the University of North Carolina.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Koch, Frederick H. (Frederick Henry), 1877-1944.
A 1944 fundraising leaflet from the Carolina Playmakers for a theatre at Chapel Hill in memory of Frederick H. Koch, its cover promising to honor a gallant life and to fulfill a gallant dream. Published at Chapel Hill by the Playmakers.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Koch, Frederick H. (Frederick Henry), 1877-1944.
Bayard Wootten's view of the inside of the Playmakers Theatre on the Chapel Hill campus, home of the Carolina Playmakers, on a hand-colored postcard sold by the university's Student Supply Store. A sender in August 1938 wrote that after the fire the room might never look this way again.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Koch, Frederick H. (Frederick Henry), 1877-1944.
A magazine profile of Frederick H. Koch, the drama teacher who founded the Carolina Playmakers at the University of North Carolina, written by Winifred Camp for a Southern personalities series. Detached from Holland's, volume 55, number 7, for July 1936.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Koch, Frederick H. (Frederick Henry), 1877-1944.
Wooden postcard from 1930 by the Dixie Novelty Co. of Asheville honoring Frederick Koch, founder of the Carolina Playmakers at the University of North Carolina. The drawing shows Koch with his pipe, the Playmakers Theatre and the Playmakers emblem.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Koch, Frederick H. (Frederick Henry), 1877-1944.
Frederick Koch, founder of the Carolina Playmakers, in three photographs dated 1928: posed on a porch with his brothers, the Koch home, and a candid shot in 'Hamlet'. From the Artists binder, Chapel Hill Historical Society Prints and Photographs Collection.
Why this is here: Their name appears in the record.
Hand-colored postcard of Frederick H. Koch in costume as Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet. Koch founded the Carolina Playmakers at the University of North Carolina and directed the troupe. Published by the Student Supply Store in Chapel Hill and printed by the Albertype Company, from the 1910s or 1920s.
Why this is here: Catalog heading in the DPLA record: Koch, Frederick H. (Frederick Henry), 1877-1944.
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Picture: Frederick H. Koch, portrait plate, 1919. Public domain. Zena Irma Trinka, North Dakota of Today (1919); via the Internet Archive
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