Johann Gottlieb Stephanie

Gottlieb Stephanie the Younger (before 1796). Copper engraving by Johann Ernst Mansfeld after a painting by Joseph Lange .

Johann Gottlieb Stephanie the Elder J. (born February 19, 1741 in Breslau ; † January 23, 1800 in Vienna ) was an Austrian actor, playwright and opera librettist .

To distinguish him from his brother Christian Gottlob Stephanie “the elder”, he is usually referred to as “the younger”.

Life

Stephanie the Younger attended the Elisabethinum grammar school in Breslau. Instead of starting his law studies in Halle as planned, he entered Prussian service in 1757 and took part in the Seven Years War . In 1760 he was taken prisoner in Austria. A few months later he joined an imperial infantry regiment and only left the army after the peace treaty in 1763. He then spent some time in the rank of lieutenant as a recruiter in Augsburg before finally moving to Vienna. There he devoted himself entirely to his career as an actor and joined the ensemble of the German-speaking stage in 1769. Stephanie the Younger was also extremely productive as a playwriter.

His niece was the theater actress Wilhelmine Korn , b. Stephanie.

Works

• The deserter out of filial love. A comedy in three acts , 1773
• The Abduction from the Seraglio , 1782, music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ; Arrangement of the play Belmonte and Constanze, or: The Abduction from the Seraglio by Christoph Friedrich Bretzner
• The theater director , 1786, music: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Doctor and pharmacist , 1786, music: Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf
  • The pharmacist and doctor: a German comic opera in a keyboard excerpt . Simrock, Bonn (see a.) Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
  • Doctor and pharmacist, comic opera in two acts; Complete book , Leipzig 1900 Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf

literature

• Constantin von Wurzbach : Stephanie, Gottlieb . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 38th part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1879, pp. 222–225 ( digitized version ).
• Oskar O. Walzel :  Stephanie, thank God . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 36, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1893, pp. 97-100.

Web links

• Literature by and about Johann Gottlieb Stephanie in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Johann Gottlieb Stephanie  in the German Digital Library
• Works by Johann Gottlieb Stephanie at Zeno.org .
• Johann Gottlieb Stephanie in the Internet Archive