Gottfried Prehauser

Gottfried Prehauser as Hanswurst

Gottfried Prehauser (born November 8, 1699 in Vienna ; † January 30, 1769 there ) was an Austrian actor and writer .

Life

Gottfried Prehauser was the son of a count's caretaker and came to Hungary early on as a field page. At the age of 17 he was part of a traveling troupe and initially performed in the suburbs of Vienna , where he played lovers and princes. After appearing at the Vienna Marionette Theater , Prehauser was traveling as a traveling comedian in southern Germany and Austria. Around 1720 his director Hilverding was able to persuade him to give the Hanswurst in Salzburg . There he became known as the Salzburg Hanswurst and Josef Anton Stranitzky also noticed . Prehauser first moved with the troop through Bohemia , Moravia and Germany until he came to Vienna in 1725. At the Kärntnertortheater in Vienna, where he was introduced by Stranitzky as his successor, he became the New Viennese Hanswurst . After the death of Stranitzky he took over the leadership of the German Comedians .

Prehauser was an excellent interpreter of impromptu , but also of "regular" pieces (including by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing ), he wrote local pieces and - poems of the old Viennese folk theater and satirical and humorous "New Year's wishes ".

In 1912 the Prehausergasse in Vienna- Hietzing was named after him.

Radio play versions of the Hanswurst

• 1926: Hanswurst, the sad kitchen baker - Production: Funk-Hour Berlin ; Processing: Max Bauer ; Director: Alfred Braun

Speaker:

• • Karl Ebert
  • Hermann Vallentin
  • Leonore Ehn
  • Lore Braun
  • Grete Wiedecke
  • Peter Grossmann

• 1927: Hans-Wurst. The sad kitchen baker and his friend in need - Production: Nordische Rundfunk AG ; Processing: Max Bauer; Director: Hermann Beyer

Speaker:

• • Karl Pündter : Good heart, a rich man
  • Eugen Moebius : Taddäus, his cousin
  • Edith Scholz : Leni, his housekeeper
  • Maria Lorenz : Gretle, his Swabian maid
  • Hans Freundt : Hanswurst, a poor cake baker

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Prehauser, Gottfried . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 23rd part. Imperial and Royal Court and State Printing Office, Vienna 1872, pp. 246–249 ( digitized version ).
• Eduard Devrient, Dramatic and dramaturgical writings , Volume 5, p. 340 digitized .
• Bärbel Rudin: Gottfried Prehauser and Franz Ludwig von Pfalz-Neuburg, travelers with cot and miter. "Abgott" Hanswurst - on the polycentric logistics of the acting industry . In: The Eighteenth Century and Austria, Vol. 33, 2018, p. ??

Web links

• Carl Ferdinand Pohl: Joseph Haydn , Volume 1, [1]