Alexander Landesberg

Flea employee with Alexander Landesberg (center right)

Alexander Landesberg (born July 15, 1848 in Großwardein (today Oradea ), † June 14, 1916 in Vienna ) was an Austrian journalist, librettist and writer.

Life

From 1878, Landesberg worked as an editor at the New Pest Journal . He moved to Vienna in 1872 and joined the editorial team of the daily press , where he stayed until 1876. He also worked from 1867 to 1885 with the illustrated, colored joke sheet Der Floh , which represented a liberal and anti-German line. From 1886 he worked as a journalist for the Morgen-Post and the Neue Wiener Tagblatt as a theater and art advisor.

He became editor-in-chief of the satirical magazine Der Junge Kikeriki , then editor of the Oesterreichische Volks-Zeitung and theater editor of the Wiener Sonn- und Monday-Zeitung . In the latter, he created the then very well-known feature sections local train studies and From the prompter box , where he wrote pointed and humorous chats under the pseudonym Schnüfferl .

Since the theater was his most valued area of ​​work, he also published a number of catalogs, theater and music exhibition guides. As a writer he created some antics and operetta text books.

Alexander Landesberg is buried in the Vienna Central Cemetery.

List of works (excerpts)

Prose texts:

• 1875 the comedy Karl the Bold
• 1889 the novel Pepi
• 1889 the posse Wasserkopf
• 1897 Schwank Der Procurist
• (without year) the Schwank Shrove Tuesday

Operetta texts:

• 1896 the lyrics to Der Wunderknabe
• 1896 Munich child
• 1901 The sweet girl
• 1907 Blessed Vincent
• 1909 the director's book for Der Glücksnarr

literature

• Hanus:  Landesberg Alexander. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 4, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1969, p. 428.

Web links

• Alexander Landesberg in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna