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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.
Johann Nestroy has 229 books on Goodreads with 2020 ratings. Johann Nestroy’s most popular book is Der Talisman.
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.
Johann Nestroy (I80I -I862) enjoyed great popularity in Vienna from the early thirties to the sixties of the nineteenth century. People eagerly thronged into the theater to see his folk comedies, noted for their blend of caustic humor, satire, and caricature. Nestroy's bons mots, products of
writing a modern biography of Johann Nestroy: a lifetime’s scholarly companionship of his subject, documented in a long list of publications, from his early Nestroy: Satire and Parody in Viennese Popular Comedy (-14&) up to this latest work; decades
Johann Nepomuk Eduard Ambrosius Nestroy (1801–1862) Johann Nestroy is often dubbed the Austrian Shakespeare. Quite rightly: like the great master of English literature, Nestroy impersonated the one or other character of his plays himself until he died.
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.
Photograph of a full length portrait of Austrian actor and playwright Johann Nestroy (1801-62) standing, facing towards the camera. He leans against an armchair, on the right side of the photograph. He holds a top hat in his right hand.
