Anton Langer

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Anton Langer (by Karl Klietsch , 1872)
Anton Langer's grave

Anton Langer (born January 12, 1824 in Vienna ; † December 7, 1879 there ) was an Austrian writer and journalist .

Life

Anton Langer grew up in the Viennese suburb of Laimgrube . His father was a Fragner ( dealer ) and grocer . From 1835 on he attended the Schottengymnasium and in 1841 switched to the university . There he studied at the Faculty for Philosophical Studies until 1844. At the same time, he published his first short stories and poems for Ludwig August Frankl's Sunday papers , Adolf Bäuerle's Wiener Theaterzeitung and Isidor Busch's calendar and yearbook for Israelites . Langer was able to publish in other journals in quick succession.

In June 1848 Moritz Gottlieb published Saphir in his folk newspaper Der Humorist Langer's well-known barricade song . In the same year in the leaflet Oestreich als Republik , Langer announced: “ The Austrian republic is an absurdity, an impossibility, a fantasy picture without a hold, a nothing. Oestreich is a historical state and will remain so in the constitution as it was in the monarchy . ”A little later he founded the summer theater Arena , also known as the Hernalser Arena , with August Wilhelm Just . In March 1850 he took over as editor and sole editor of the journal Hans Jörgel von Gumpoldskirchen , which had been written in the Viennese dialect since 1832 and which he continued until his death. The sheet has undergone several name changes since it was founded. In addition, he published a people's calendar for humor and seriousness , in which he mainly placed his own stories and poems.

Langer wrote more than 100 short stories, novellas and novels, as well as over 120 plays for the Vienna Volksbühnen. His text production is generally assigned to the trivial literature or the feature section novel. A general overview does not exist. Initially there were poems and “historical novels” such as The White Rose from Mechelen , Lomniczki from Budecz or Ephraim Reubl . Later, Vienna's history, way of life and conditions were almost always his subjects. He also translated about 150 English and French novels.

The figure of Emperor Joseph II, idealized in many of Langer's novels , was a model for an enlightenment supported by the state. He contrasted it with the widespread conspiracy theories against Jesuits or other religious figures, who symbolically embody the reaction in his texts. But his reservations did not apply to Catholicism as a whole.

Anton Langer's first marriage was to a choir singer and his second marriage to the actress Therese Stummer. Both partners had died years before him. Langer himself died after a short illness in his apartment in the old Dreilauferhaus, where Ludwig Anzengruber was born. He was buried in the Vienna Central Cemetery (Group 12D, Row 1, Number 12). Before his death, he is said to have told friends that " the Baners don't do anything anymore, they want to rest - at the Central Cemetery ."

In 1894 the Anton-Langer-Gasse in Vienna- Hietzing was named after him.

Works (selection)

Novels

  • A denunciant from Anno Neune . Herzabek, Prague and Hübner, Leipzig 1854. ( digitized version )
  • The last Fiaker . A novel from Viennese folk life. Hartleben, Pest, Vienna and Leipzig 1855. ( digitized volume 1 ), ( volume 2 )
  • The Carbonari in Vienna or The Man with the White Liver . Character image from life in Vienna. Hartleben, Pest, Vienna and Leipzig 1857. ( digitized version )
  • A count child . Lechner, Vienna 1860. ( digitized version )
  • Story book by Hans Jörgel . 2 volumes. Dirnböck, Vienna 1865
  • Neudorf's sister . Folk novel. Dirnböck, Vienna 1866. ( digitized version )
  • The old Naderer . Novel from Viennese folk life. Dirnböck, Vienna 1867. ( digitized version ) Renamed in the 3rd edition in 1868 to A Vienna Police Agent from anno 48 .
  • The Galgenmandl. A story from the time of the plague . Dirnböck, Vienna 1867. ( digitized version )
  • A police agent from the year 48 . A novel from Viennese folk life. Dirnböck, Vienna 1868. ( digitized version )
  • The white woman in the Hofburg in Vienna . Folk novel. Self-published by the publisher, Vienna 1869 ( digitized volume 1 )
  • Ghosts on a bright day . Moral novel from Vienna's present. Self-published by the editor, Vienna 1871. ( digitized version )
  • Your Excellency and G'frettbruder . Original folk novel. Dorr, Vienna 1874. ( digitized version )

Plays

  • Austrians in Schleswig . Patriotic painting in 2 pictures with singing. 1855
  • A Judas from Anno Neune. Original character painting in 3 acts and a sequel in 1 act , Vienna 1856. ( digitalized ) reprinted in 1878 under the title Ein Judas im Frack, known from the performances .
  • The stock Greitzler . Original farce with singing in 3 acts. Klopf and Gutsch, Vienna 1856. ( digitized version )
  • The flour knife pepi . Original farce with singing in 3 acts. Lell, Vienna 1857. ( digitized version )
  • A Prater sausage . Original life picture with singing in 3 acts. Lithographic Institute, Vienna 1858. ( digitized version )
  • The worker and his family . Original life picture with singing in three acts. Lithographic Institute, Vienna 1858. ( digitized version )
  • A Viennese volunteer . Life picture with singing in two acts and a prelude. (Wiener Volks-Bühne, Volume 1) Dirnböck, Vienna 1859. ( digitized version )
  • A caretaker from the suburbs . Original posse in three acts. (Wiener Volks-Bühne, Volume 2) Dirnböck, Vienna 1859. ( digitized version )
  • A player . Original farce with singing in three acts. 1859
  • Strauss and Lanner . Life picture with singing in three acts. 1859
  • A feather fox . Posse with singing in one act. Kolbe, Berlin 1863. ( digitized version )
  • Christkindl . Genre picture with singing in one act. Löwenthal, Vienna 1864. ( digitized version )
  • A word to the minister . Genre picture in one act. Dirnböck, Vienna 1864
  • From the days of shooting . Comedy in 1 act. Landvogt, Vienna 1868
  • Angot the daughter of the hall . Comic opera in three acts. Rosner, Vienna 1874. ( digitized version )
  • Where's the child? . Wiener Posse with singing in four acts. Mutze, Leipzig 1876

Translations

  • The Caxtons. A family painting . By Edward Lytton Bulwer; Translated from the English by Anton Langer. ( Cabinet of fiction reading of the newest and best novels of all nations in meticulous translations No. 1) 1850
  • The prophecy of fate . From Eugène Sue. German by Anton Langer. ( Belletristic reading cabinet of the newest and best novels of all nations in careful translations No. 37) Hartleben, Leipzig 1851
  • Miss Mary, the educator . ( Fiction cabinet of the newest and best novels of all nations in careful translations No. 36) 1851
  • Cerisette . By Paul de Kock. 5 volumes. Translated from the French by Paul de Kock by Anton Langer. ( Fiction cabinet of the newest and best novels of all nations in meticulous translations, No. 42) 1850, 1851
  • The beauty with the make . From Maximilian Perrin. The stonemason of Saint Point . By A. de Lamartine. Ranthorpe . By George Henry Lewes. German by Anton Langer. ( Cabinet of fiction reading of the newest and best novels of all nations in meticulous translations No. 78) 1848, 1851

literature

Web links

Commons : Anton Langer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Barricade Song , in: The Humorist of June 2, 1848 ( digitized version)
  2. ^ Austria as a republic
  3. ↑ Monika Schreiber: Johann Baptist Weis and his 'Hans-Jörgel' (On the history of a Viennese magazine in the years 1837-1850 with special consideration of the revolutionary year 1848) , University of Vienna 2008, p. 22f. Online pdf
  4. ^ Sunday papers from October 1 and November 12, 1843 ( digitized version )
  5. ↑ Calendar and yearbook for Israelites to the year 5606 , Vienna 1845, pp. 171 - 202 ( digitized version )
  6. ↑ Bernhard Rindt: The feuilleton novel in the "Neue Wiener Tagblatt" in the second half of the 19th century An analysis based on selected texts , Vienna, 2001, p. 23
  7. ↑ Bernhardt Rind, p. 30; 51; 77f
  8. ^ Vienna History Wiki
  9. ^ Didaskalia of December 12, 1879 ( digitized version )
personal data
SURNAME Langer, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1824
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH December 7, 1879
Place of death Vienna