Hugo Wittmann (writer)

Hugo Wittmann (born October 16, 1839 in Ulm , † February 6, 1923 in Vienna ) was a German - Austrian writer and operetta writer .

Life

Theater ticket Poor Jonathan, Olomouc City Theater from 1899

Grave of Hugo Wittmann

Wittmann was born as a child of the realteacher Johann Christoph Wittmann and his wife Maria Rebekka Hormuth in Ulm. The family had its roots in Blaubeuren and Biberach an der Riss . Together with his younger sister Maria Clara, he emigrated to Vienna and devoted himself to music and the great composers. Maria Clara married Volkmar Leisching in Vienna, a merchant and offspring of a widely ramified family with Thuringian roots. Hugo Wittmann began to work as an author and to write operas. Together with Julius Bauer and Carl Millöcker , the plays Der Feldprediger (1885), Der Hofnarr (1886), Die Sieben Schwaben (1887), Der poor Jonathan (1890) and Das Nordlicht (1896) were created in Vienna . With Julius Bauer he wrote the libretto for Johann Strauss' operetta Fürstin Ninetta .

As an employee of the Neue Freie Presse he came into contact with Theodor Herzl and entered into regular correspondence with him. In his exchange, he called him not only a colleague, but also an honored college and friend. With him, the play Die Dame in Schwarz , set in a place called Hirschgarten am Rhein, was created and premiered in February 1890. In October 1891 Wittmann helped his colleague Herzl get a job as a correspondent in Paris and stayed in contact with him.

He was buried in the Vienna Central Cemetery in an honorary grave of the City of Vienna (Group 32C, number 3).

Stage works

title	genus	file	libretto	premiere	Place, theater
The field preacher	operetta	3 acts	Hugo Wittmann and Alois Wohlmuth, based on The Strange Bride Chamber by Gustav Schilling	October 31, 1884	Vienna, Theater an der Wien
The jester	operetta	3 acts	Hugo Wittmann and Julius Bauer	1886	Vienna
The seven Swabians	Volksoper	3 acts	Hugo Wittmann and Julius Bauer	October 29, 1887	Vienna, Theater an der Wien
The love court	operetta	3 acts	Hugo Wittmann and Oscar Blumenthal	1888	Vienna
Poor Jonathan	operetta	3 acts	Hugo Wittmann and Julius Bauer	4th January 1890	Vienna, Theater an der Wien
The lady in black	Comedy	4 acts	Hugo Wittmann and Theodor Herzl	February 6, 1890	Vienna
General Gogo	operetta	3 acts	Hugo Wittmann and Gustav Davis	1896	Vienna
The northern lights	operetta	3 acts	Hugo Wittmann	December 22, 1896	Vienna, Theater an der Wien

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Wittmann, Hugo . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 57th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1889, p. 167 ( digitized version ).
• Christian Fastl: Wittmann, Hugo. In: Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . Online edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ISBN 3-7001-3077-5 ; Print edition: Volume 5, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 2006, ISBN 3-7001-3067-8 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Hugo Wittmann in the catalog of the German National Library