Hermann Herzenskron

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Hermann Josef Herzenskron (born July 12, 1789 in Vienna ; † January 17 or 19, 1863 in the Old General Hospital Vienna ) was an Austrian playwright.

life and work

After completing his studies in Vienna, Karl Friedrich Hensler made him work on the then very popular local antics, parodies and adaptations of French models. His first work from 1822 was entitled Fashion Follies , was a great success and saw more than 100 performances in the Leopoldstadt Theater in its first year . Thanks to his sure taste for stage effectiveness and the audience-effective humor, his works always had a great impact, also on other Austrian and German stages, even in the Vienna Burgtheater .

He summarized his stage plays in the six-part anthology Dramatic Little Things (Vienna 1826–1839):

  • Volume I: The Bridegroom Without a Bride (own work); Hoang puff ; It's a girl and not a boy ; The kiss to the messenger ; The little house in the meadow ; The walk to the madhouse (all arrangements, except for the first piece)
  • Volume II: The Innocents ; The mechanical trumpeter ; The most beautiful day of life ; Vertigo fatalities ; Guest roles of Approximately (all adaptations)
  • Volume III: Eight Sensible Days ; The supplicant in confusion (both own works); The country party to Weidling am Bach (arrangement)
  • Volume IV (also under the title: Dramatic Contributions ): The Masked Ball ; The deceased ; The Strange Bet (all edits); Eagerness to serve (own work); Victor (adaptation)
  • Volume V (also under the title: Thaliens Spenden ): The Prince's Gift ; Seraphine (both arrangements); The farrier (own work)
  • Volume VI (also under the title: Dramatic Gifts ): Rosa (arrangement); The wig ; The groom as a botanist (both own works)

Herzenskron had also successfully published a number of poems, short stories and humorous essays in paperbacks and magazines. All of his works, whether stage plays, prose or poetry, had an exclusively local background. The little posse Marriage through the horse comedy or Die Räuber in den Abruzzen, local posse with singing in one act and an associated spectacle pantomime in one act, served Johann Nestroy in 1827 as a template for his first comic stage work The Zettelträger Papp .

While in his younger years he socialized with many personalities of the Viennese literary society, he later lived very withdrawn due to domestic accidents and broken financial circumstances and ended his life as head of a children's institution. His son Viktor Herzenskron (1820–1877) was a writer and theater director.

Contemporary criticism

In the Austrian National Encyclopedia (published 1835–37 in Vienna) by Franz Graeffer and Johann Jakob Czikann (1789–1855) there was little to be read about the crown of the heart. A paper cut from Herzenskrons published there was explained in the accompanying text:

“Long figure, no hair, passed face, fixed-fingered but weak stage writer, without thorough knowledge, initiated into the chronique scandaleuse of the stages, the big and small world, coquettish. Divorced, unhappy speculator. "

According to this lexicon, Herzenskron was born in 1789, according to other contemporary works not until 1792.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wiener Zeitung 1863, No. 15.
  2. ↑ Bohemia 1863, No. 18, p. 180.
  3. ↑ Gräffer / Czikann: Oesterreichische National-Encyklopädie, or alphabetical presentation of the most remarkable peculiarities of the Austrian Empire… Volume II, Vienna 1835, p. 570.
personal data
SURNAME Crown of hearts, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Herzenskron, Hermann Josef (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian playwright
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1789
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH January 17, 1863 or January 19, 1863
Place of death Vienna