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Johann Nepomuk Eduard Ambrosius Nestroy (German: [ˈnɛstrɔɪ̯]; 7 December 1801 – 25 May 1862) was a singer, actor and playwright in the popular Austrian tradition of the Biedermeier period and its immediate aftermath.
May 21, 2024 · Johann Nestroy (born Dec. 7, 1801, Vienna, Austria—died May 25, 1862, Graz) was one of Austria’s greatest comic dramatists, and a brilliant character actor who dominated the mid-19th-century Viennese popular stage.
Johann Nepomuk Eduard Ambrosius Nestroy war ein österreichischer Dramatiker, Schauspieler und Opernsänger. Sein Werk ist der literarische Höhepunkt des Alt-Wiener Volkstheaters.
Sep 7, 2017 · Johann Nestroy: Umsonst, BR 1967, Regie: Michael Kehlmann. Mit Peter Weck, Helmut Qualtinger, Fritz Eckhardt, Oskar Sima u.a.
Einen Jux will er sich machen (1842) (He Will Go on a Spree or He'll Have Himself a Good Time), is a three-act musical play, designated as a Posse mit Gesang ("farce with singing"), by Austrian playwright Johann Nestroy.
One of Austria’s greatest comic dramatists and a brilliant character actor, Johann Nestroy dominated the popular stage in Vienna in the mid-19th century. Long popular in his homeland, Nestroy’s witty and cynical comedies are little known outside Austria and Germany.
During the revolutionary years 1848 and 1849, Johann Nestroy wrote several plays dealing explicitly with political themes. Because these plays sometimes appear to adopt different perspectives toward the Viennese Revolution, many have charged Nestroy with being an Umsattler , that is, someone who changed his stance as the revolutionary tide shifted.
