Maik Hamburger

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Maik Hamburger (12 February 1931 – 16 January 2020) was a German translator, writer and dramaturge, regarded as one of the leading Shakespeare scholars of his generation in the German-speaking world. Michael Pitt "Maik" Hamburger was born on 12 February 1931 in Shanghai, where his parents were living and working at the time. His father, Rudolf Hamburger (1903–1980), was a German architect originally from Lower Silesia. His mother, born Ursula Kuczynski (1907–2000), had accompanied her husband to China. His maternal grandfather was economist and demographer Robert René Kuczynski. Hamburger's family was Jewish. Both his parents were committed to antifascist communism, and his mother had joined the party in 1926. Both parents at some stage became involved in spying for Soviet intelligence; the Shanghai construction boom may have been the chief reason for their decision to relocate to Shanghai during the first half of 1930. Rudolf Hamburger's espionage career was probably not of huge value to the Soviet Union: Ursula Kuczynski, however, would become well known to English and American espionage watchers some decades later, as the Oxfordshire-based "handler" of nuclear scientist Klaus Fuchs between 1943 and 1950. The marriage of Hamburger's parents came under increasing pressure, ending in divorce in 1939.