Karl Haffner (playwright)

Karl Haffner (1842)

Karl Haffner ( pseudonym ), actually: Karl Schlechter , (born November 8, 1804 in Königsberg in Prussia , † February 29, 1876 in Vienna ) was a German playwright .

Live and act

Karl Haffner attended the Collegium Fridericianum in Königsberg. At the age of 16 he joined a traveling group and traveled through Prussia, Saxony, Silesia, Austria and Hungary as a traveling comedian. After ten years he became a playwright and theater poet at the Pest Theater with Feodor Grimm, after having made some dramatic attempts beforehand.

In Pest he wrote tragedies such as Die Raubschützen, Die Locke des Behapeten, Blocks Totengruft, Schwarzenberg and Palffy and Batory's Death, which met with rousing applause from the audience. Strangely enough, the well-known theater director Carl Carl in Vienna recognized Haffner's talent for the local farce and hired him for nine years as a theater poet for the Theater an der Wien . Haffner had to commit to the delivery of eleven pieces a year and has kept this contract. Later he turned to the theater in der Josefstadt and finally edited the satirical weekly Böse Tungen.

Haffner achieved his first major success with the romantic-comic folk tale Das Marmor-Herz, which received a second prize in 1841 and was premiered on April 21 of that year at the Theater an der Wien. His three-act genre painting Therese Krones , in which he brought Raimund 's circle to the stage, has been preserved over and over again. In addition to dramas, Haffner also wrote more than 30 volumes of novels. One of them, Scholz and Nestroy (1864 to 1866, 3 volumes), contains various things about the history of his life.

Together with Richard Genée he wrote the libretto for the operetta Die Fledermaus (music: Johann Strauss ).

Haffner did not treat the criticism as encouraging or lightly, although humor and skillful character drawing cannot be denied in his pieces.

Karl Haffner, during the last years of his life unable to work due to illness and retired from Concordia , left a large family in need and misery ; he was buried in the Vienna Central Cemetery (3-4-41) in an honorary grave . In 1955, Haffnergasse was named after him in Vienna- Donaustadt (22nd district of Vienna) .

Works (selection)

Karl Haffner's grave

• Austrian People's Theater . Reclam, Leipzig 1845. Volume 1/3:
  • The marble heart. Romantic and funny folk fairy tale with singing, in three acts. Music by Adolf Müller . ( Premiere 1841). Pp. 5-98. - online ,
  • The wild hunter or: The red house. Character sketch with singing in three acts. Music by Michael Hebenstreit . (Premiere 1841). Pp. 99-164. - online ,
  • Death and the Miracle Doctor. Funny folk fairy tale with singing in three acts. Music by Michael Hebenstreit . (Premiere 1841). Pp. 165-240. - online .
• Austrian People's Theater . Reclam, Leipzig 1846. Volume 2/3:
  • The source of tears. Romantic and funny fairy tale with singing in two acts. Along with a related prelude. Music by Adolf Müller . (Premiere 1842). Pp. 1-68. - online ,
  • The Viennese chambermaids or: The ball in the shoemaker's workshop. Posse with singing in two acts. Music by Michael Hebenstreit . (Premiere 1840). Pp. 69-132. - online ,
  • The stick in the iron or: The black woman in the Wiener-Walde. Romantic-funny folk fairy tale with singing in four acts. Music by Adolf Müller . (Premiere 1839). Pp. 133-196. - online .
• Austrian People's Theater . Reclam, Leipzig 1846. Volume 3/3:
  • Peter Kranau or: The robber and his child. Drama with song and dance in two acts. Music by Carl Binder . (Premiere 1843). Pp. 1-68. - online ,
  • Asodus, the limping devil or: A promenade through three centuries. Funny picture box with song and dance in three sections. Music by Adolf Müller . (Premiere 1839). Pp. 69-142. - online ,
  • The zeitgeist or: a visit from the past. Funny fantasy painting with singing in three acts. Music by Adolf Müller . (Premiere 1841). Pp. 143-224. - online .
• -, Adolf Müller (music): Das Reserl am Krippenstein. Posse with singing in three sections, performed on the kk priv. Josefstädter stage in Vienna . Manuscript, Vienna 1850. - Online .
• -, Adolf Müller (music): Wenzl Scholz. Sketches from the artist's life with singing in three acts . Sommer, Vienna 1859. - Online .
• -, Adolf Müller (music): The students from Rummelstadt. Genre picture with song and dance in three acts . Manuscript, Vienna 1861. - Online .
• -, Josef Pfundheller , Johann Baptist Klerr (music): The two night watchmen or a spook in the carnival night. Posse with song and dance in three acts, based on a novella by H (einrich) Zschokke . Wallishausser, Vienna 1862. - Online .
• -, Josef Pfundheller, Anton Maria Storch (music): Severin von Jaroszynski or Der Blaumantel vom Trattnerhof. Genre picture with song and dance in four acts as a side piece to Therese Krones . Wallishausser, Vienna 1862. - Online .
• -, Adolf Müller (music): Therese Krones. Genre picture with song and dance in three acts . Manuscript, Vienna 1862. - Online .
• -, Julius Hopp (music): The long nose. Farce with singing in one act. Libretto . Manuscript, Vienna 1863. - Online .
• -, Adolf Müller (music): The star maiden. Romantic and funny fairy tale with song and dance in three sections . Manuscript, Vienna 1863. - Online .
• Louis Napoleon and the pastor's daughter. Original novel . Albert Last, Vienna 1866. - Volume 1/3 online ; Volume 2/3 online ; Volume 3/3 online .
• Scholz and Nestroy. Novel from the life of an artist . Hermann Markgraf, Vienna 1866. - Volume 1/3 online ; Volume 2/3 online ; Volume 3/3 online .
• The heart of an artist ( Henriette Sontag as benefactress) . In: The Gazebo . Issue 51, 1866, pp. 808 ( full text [ Wikisource ]).
• Nun and Maitresse. Novel from life in Vienna . Albert Last, Vienna 1867. - Volume 1/3 online ; Volume 2/3 online ; Volume 3/3 online .
• The beautiful women of Vienna. Humorous novel from Viennese folk life . Albert Last, Vienna 1867. - Volume 1/2 online ; Volume 2/2 online .
• Virgin blood. Original novel . Edwin Müller, Vienna 1869. - Volume 1/3 online ; Volume 2/3 online ; Volume 3/3 online .
• What the maids tell each other. Novel . Edwin Müller, Vienna 1870. - Volume 1/3 online ; Volume 2/3 online ; Volume 3/3 online .
• The sleep sold. Romantic-comic fairy tale with song and dance in three acts based on MG Saphir’s poem of the same name. In the KK pr. Theaters on the Vienna and in the Josefstadt performed with great applause . Reclam, Leipzig 1870. - Online .
• The children of Neudorf. Novel . J. Neidl, Vienna 1871. - Online .
• The man without a heart. Novel . J. Neidl, Vienna 1871. - Online .
• Johann Strauss, -, Richard Genée: Arias & Chants from: Die Fledermaus, comic operetta in three acts based on (Henri) Meilhac and (Ludovic) Halévy . Lewy, Vienna approx. 1874. - Online .
• Known and unknown quantities. Sketches and novellettes from the world of art and theater by Carl Haffner. Vienna: Self-published by the author's widow Mrs. Elise Haffner: In Commission at H. Engel, 1884. books.google .

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Haffner, Karl (pseudonym) . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 7th part. Imperial-Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1861, p. 187 f. ( Digitized version ).
• Constantin von Wurzbach : Schlechter, Karl (real name) . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 30th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1875, p. 71 ( digitized version ).
• Joseph Kürschner :  Haffner, Karl . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1879, p. 319 f.
• Elisabeth Th. Hilscher-Fritz: Hafner (Haffner, own Schlechter, butcher), Karl. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 2, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-7001-3044-9 .
• Robert Blum and the poor poet (Robert Blum and the poet from "The Students of Rummelstadt") . In: The Gazebo . Issue 25, 1867, pp. 398-399 ( full text [ Wikisource ]).

Web links

• Literature by and about Karl Haffner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Karl Haffner  in the German Digital Library
• Works by Karl Haffner (playwright) at Zeno.org .
• A. v. Sch – z .:  40 years of “bat”. (As of April 5.). In:  Wiener Abendpost. Supplement to Wiener Zeitung , No. 77/1914, April 4, 1914, p. 1, bottom left. (Online at ANNO ). .

Individual evidence

1. ^ MG Saphir :  Revue of the suburban theater. Theater an der Wien. In:  Der Humorist (1837-1862) , ( Der Humorist ) No. 83/1841 (5th year), April 26, 1841, p. 338. (Online at ANNO ). .
2. ↑ Little Chronicle. (...) † Karl Haffner. In:  Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt, No. 4136/1876, March 1, 1876, p. 5, top right. (Online at ANNO ). ;
   Viennese journalists and writers association “Concordia”. (...) Our college, the stage writer (...). In:  Neue Freie Presse , Morgenblatt, No. 4137/1876, March 2, 1876, p. 7, bottom left. (Online at ANNO ). .
3. ↑ Dr. H .:  Vienna letters. (...) You carried a poor, forgotten man to the grave (...). In:  Pilsner Fremdblatt, No. 11/1876 (3rd year), March 12, 1876, p. 1, bottom left. (Online at ANNO ). .
4. ↑ Hedwig Abraham (Red.): Karl Haffner . In: viennatouristguide.at , accessed on December 4, 2014.