Josef Weyl

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Josef Aloys Peter Weyl (also: Joseph) (born March 9, 1821 in Vienna ; † April 10, 1895 ) was an Austrian humorist and translator. He was one of the oldest members of the great Viennese writers' association "Concordia" and of the joking club "Die Grüne Insel" founded in 1855.

Life

He first attended the local high school. He then became a journalist and published poems and humorous articles, among other things. People like Moritz Gottlieb Saphir , Adolf Bäuerle , Ottokar Franz Ebersberg and Seyfried supported and encouraged him. His first known publication can be found in the fiction daily Das Vaterland from Raab .

He moved to Pressburg , where he directed the journal Pannonia with Adolf Neustadt , and later with Johann Bangya (1817–1868) . He briefly moved back to Vienna for Die Scourge and then became a lordly civil servant in the Waldviertel ( Lower Austria ), at the beginning of the 1850s he switched to civil service. He became the second librarian at the highest police authority in Vienna and, after its dissolution, was assigned to the police department. For many years he edited the police gazette , especially the police scout papers . He edited until the end of his forty years of service. From 1869 to 1870 Ludwig Anzengruber (1839–1889) was one of his employees. He was a member of the writers' association “Concordia” and the joke club “Die Grüne Insel” and was also well known and loved. He was the recipient of the Austrian Medal for Art and Science and the Belgian Order of the Leopold . At his death he was considered one of the last representatives of old Viennese humor.

Create

During his first years ( Vormärz ) he was unable to establish himself, but after he had a permanent job, he was able to develop into an original figure in Vienna's intellectual and social life. For over 40 years he published funny declamation numbers, comical scenes and fun poetry in Vienna. During that time, he was repeatedly asked to contribute to large public and private events. So there are numerous comical and serious poems, pro and epilogues, lyrics, etc. Only the satirist and journalist Julius Bauer was able to overtake him. Weyl remained the representative of the Viennese “ bench ” humor. The highlight here, however, is the well-known original text to Johann Strauss 'the Younger's popular waltz On the Beautiful Blue Danube (Opus 314). The Vienna Men's Choir (WMGV) introduced the repertoire for the first time in 1867 at a fools' evening. The current text was created in 1879 by Franz von Gernerth . The Vienna Men's Choir also published many song tables, as well as a lot of other song texts and benches by Weyl.

For the comic stage he has translated a number of French operettas and antics for Karl Treumann . B. the comic opera Die Reise nach China ( François Bazin , Le Voyage en Chine ), the comedy Gavaud, Minard and Co. , the operettas Chief Evening Wind , the engagement in front of the drum , he must be deaf , even Charles Gounod 's Oratory La Rédemption . He also transcribed stage plays from French for the Viennese theaters.

Weyl collected his humorous and lyrical outpourings several times and also published what he also produced in the form of dramatic and columnist trifles, including:

  • Collected cheerful lectures (1–16: 1875–79; 17–19: 1883–84)
  • Epheuranken - At the foot of the Habsburg (1852)
  • Passifloren of the year 1849 (1854)
  • Entertaining (1856, 2nd edition 1873)
  • A fun New Years gift. Humorous Lectures (1862)
  • Juxbrevier (humorous lectures, 1863)
  • a new volume of entertaining (1867),

Periodicals:

  • Humorous almanac (1861–1866)
  • Mephisto. Humorous calendar (1868)
  • Happy New Year. Comical Calendar (1870)

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Full name according to: Deutsches Writer Lexicon, 1830–1880, Volume 8, p. 266
  2. ↑ also: János Bangya editor of Hungaria Hungaria
personal data
SURNAME Weyl, Josef
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weyl, Joseph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian humorist and translator
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1821
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 1895