Ignaz Schnitzer

Ignaz Schnitzer

Ignaz Schnitzer (born December 4, 1839 in Ratzersdorf (then Hungary , now a district of Bratislava , Slovakia); † June 18, 1921 in Vienna ; also Ignatz or Ignác Schnitzer) was an Austrian writer , journalist , translator, librettist and Hungarian newspaper founder Origin.

Life

Ignaz Schnitzer began studying philosophy in Pest , but soon worked as a journalist. From 1857 he lived in Vienna and wrote for various newspapers, such as the Pester Lloyd or the foreign paper , and as editor of the newspaper Der Progress . In 1867 he returned to Budapest and was initially a member of the editorial board of the Bécsi debate . In 1869 he founded the daily newspaper Neues Pester Journal together with Zsigmond Bródy (1840–1906) , which he headed as editor-in-chief for a decade.

In addition, he edited Hungarian plays for German theaters, in 1879 he translated Ede Zsigligeti's Rauschgold for the Vienna Burgtheater and Mór Jókai's hero Pálffy for the Carltheater .

After selling his stake in the New Pest Journal, he moved back to Vienna in 1881 and worked primarily as a librettist and translator. Schnitzer received special recognition for his translations and revisions of Sándor Petőfi's works into German. The friendship with Johann Strauss (son) prompted him to write the libretto for his gypsy baron and the cultural-historical and sometimes biographical work Colorful Stories from the Johann Strauss Period .

As co-owner of the Venice amusement park founded by Gabor Steiner in Vienna , he organized the financing and built new sights, such as the Ferris wheel . In 1894 he had the idea of ​​commissioning a circular painting entitled “Emperor Franz Joseph and his time” to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the reign of Emperor Franz Joseph I. It was executed by the history painter Philipp Fleischer, and it was exhibited in Exhibition Street 143 in a round building specially designed by Oskar Marmorek .

Obituary in the NFP

Schnitzer was married to the daughter of a doctor, Gabriele, geb. Laszky (April 10, 1846 in Gyöngyös - September 28, 1913 in Vienna). His grave is in the Kerepeser Cemetery in Budapest.

Awards

Honorary memberships in the literary societies of Hungary, namely the Petőfi and the Kisfaludy Society , and the Vienna Hungary Society.

Works

Compiled from the catalogs of the Austrian National Library and the Vienna Library (as of January 2013).

Libretti

• Joggeli . Opera in 3 acts. Music by Wilhelm Taubert . 1853.
• Muzzedin . Romantic-comic opera in 2 acts. Music by Siegmund Bachrich. 1883.
• The gold man . Play in 5 acts by Mór Jókai freely edited by Ignaz Schnitzer. Music by Adolf Müller junior . 1885.
• The gypsy baron. Operetta in 3 acts based on a story by Mór Jókai . Music by Johann Strauss (son). 1885.
• Rafaela . Comical opera in 3 acts by Adolph Schirmer and Ignaz Schnitzer. Music by Max Wolf . 1886.
• The oracle . Operetta in 3 acts. With free use of a motif by Gregor Csiky . Music by Josef Hellmesberger junior . 1889
• The royal bride . Romantic comic opera in 3 acts. Music by Robert Fuchs . 1889.
• Paris in Vienna . Equipment posse in 3 pictures. Text by F. Zell . Lyrics by Ignaz Schnitzer. Music by Josef Bayer . 1890.
• The Salzburg bells . A Mozart piece in 4 pictures by Ignaz Schnitzer and Sigmund Schlesinger. Not set to music. Around 1890.
• Hussar blood . (also: The village judge ). Operetta in 3 acts. Music by Hugo Felix . 1894.
• The Venus of Murán . Opera in three acts by Ignaz Schnitzer and Georg Verö. Not set to music. Around 1900.
• Kaspar (also The beautiful Kaspar ). Comical operetta in 3 acts. Text by F. Zell and Ignaz Schnitzer. Music by Josef Bayer. 1902.
• Brother Straubinger . Operetta in 3 acts by Moritz West and Ignaz Schnitzer. Music by Edmund Eysler . 1903.
• Pufferl . Operetta in 3 acts by Sigmund Schlesinger and Ignaz Schnitzer. Music by Edmund Eysler. 1905.
• The electrician . Operetta in 3 acts by Sigmund Schlesinger and Ignaz Schnitzer. Music by Carl Josef Fromm. 1906.
• Tip top . Operetta in 3 acts by Ignaz Schnitzer and Sigmund Schlesinger. Music by Josef Stritzko. 1907.
• Creole blood . Operetta in 3 acts by Ignaz Schnitzer and Emerich von Gatti. Music by Heinrich Berté . 1910.

Song lyrics

• Strange story . Chanson. Text after Samdo Petöfi. Music by Béla Laszky.
• Father Radetzky is calling! Soldier song. Music by Franz Lehár . 1914.

Translations

• Eduard Szigligeti: Rauschgold . Comedy in 3 acts. According to the Hungarian. Hungaria, Budapest 1879.
• Gergely Csiky: The grandmother . Comedy in 3 acts. According to the Hungarian. Decision, Berlin 1892.
• Stephen Phillips: Herod . Tragedy in 3 acts. In German adaptation. Fischer, Vienna 1901.
• Sándor Petőfi : Poetic Works in Six Volumes. In German adaptation. Halm & Goldmann, Vienna 1910.

Book publications

• Franz Joseph I. and his time. Cultural-historical review of the Francisco-Josephine era. Lechner, Vienna 1898.
• Master Johann. Colorful stories from the time of Johann Strauss. 2 volumes. Halm, Vienna 1920.

literature

• Salomon Wininger : Great Jewish National Biography . (Volume 5). Chernivtsi 1931, p. 448.
• S. Leskowa:  Schnitzer Igna (t) z. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 10, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1994, ISBN 3-7001-2186-5 , p. 406 f. (Direct links on p. 406 , p. 407 ). (With wrong place of birth)
• Susanne Blumesberger, Michael Doppelhofer, Gabriele Mauthe: Handbook of Austrian authors of Jewish origin from the 18th to the 20th century. Volume 3: S – Z, Register. Edited by the Austrian National Library. Saur, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-598-11545-8 , p. 1220.
• Felix Czeike (Ed.): Historisches Lexikon Wien . Volume 6, Kremayr & Scheriau / Orac, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-218-00741-0 , p. 180.
• Peter D. Forgács: Ignaz Schnitzer and the true story of the gypsy baron. In: Wiener Geschichtsblätter , Volume 59, Issue 2, 2004, ISSN  0043-5317 .
• Rudolf Flotzinger (Ed.): Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon . (Volume 4). Publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7001-3046-5 .

Web links

Commons : Ignaz Schnitzer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Ignaz Schnitzer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Ignaz Schnitzer  in the German Digital Library
• Works by Ignaz Schnitzer at Zeno.org .
• Ignaz Schnitzer in the Internet Archive
• Ignaz Schnitzer in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• The gypsy baron . With full libretto. (Retrieved January 29, 2013.)

Contemporary press articles

• For his seventieth birthday: Ignaz Schnitzer. In:  Neue Freie Presse , December 19, 1909, p. 11 (online at ANNO ).
• Ignaz Schnitzer died. In:  Pester Lloyd , June 19, 1921, p. 7 (online at ANNO ).
• † Ignaz Schnitzer. The librettist of the "Gypsy Baron" .. In:  Neue Freie Presse , June 19, 1921, p. 11 (online at ANNO ).
• Obituary by Heinrich Glücksmann: Ignaz Schnitzer † .. In:  Wiener Bilder , June 26, 1921, p. 10 (online at ANNO ).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Bródy, Zsigmond. In: Encyclopaedia Judaica , 1972, Volume 4, Col. 1401
2. ^ Vienna Round Painting Society. The Kaiser anniversary picture. Designed and painted by Prof. E. Ph. Fleischer based on the basic motifs and information provided by J. Schnitzer. Verlag Wr. Round painting society, Vienna 1898.
3. ↑ The inspection of the Kaiser jubilee circular painting by the Kaiser. In:  Neue Freie Presse , April 19, 1898, p. 5 (online at ANNO ).
4. ^ The Kaiser anniversary picture. In:  Neue Freie Presse , May 12, 1898, p. 5 (online at ANNO ).
5. ↑ Gabriele Schnitzer obituary. In:  Neue Freie Presse , September 29, 1913, p. 13 (online at ANNO ).
6. ^ Ignaz Schnitzer .. In:  Pester Lloyd , June 28, 1921, p. 4 (online at ANNO ).