Joseph Schreyvogel
Joseph Schreyvogel (born March 27, 1768 in Vienna ; † July 28, 1832 there ) was an Austrian writer .
Life
After successfully completing his school career, Schreyvogel began working for Johann Baptist von Alxinger's Austrian weekly from 1793 .
From 1794 to 1797 Schreyvogel worked in Jena . There he made the acquaintance of Friedrich Schiller , on whose Thalia he temporarily worked. Also, the Mercury of Christoph Martin Wieland won Schreyvogel as employees.
In 1797 he went back to Vienna and lived there as a privateer. In 1802 he was appointed to succeed August von Kotzebue as secretary at the Burgtheater . He held this office until 1804 and exercised great influence and influence with his fondness for classical music. a. to Franz Grillparzer , Eduard von Bauernfeld and Joseph Christian von Zedlitz . He was in charge of the Burgtheater from 1814 to 1832. Under his direction, Sophie Schröder , Heinrich Anschütz and Karl Fichtner strengthened the Hofburgtheater ensemble. During this time he also managed the art and industrial office in Vienna .
From 1807 he acted under the pseudonym Thomas West or Karl August West as editor of the Sunday paper (until 1814). That year, Count Dietrichstein brought him to the Burgtheater as a dramaturge. When Johann Rudolf Czernin took over the management of this house, Schreyvogel was retired in May 1832. He died in the same year at the age of 64 on July 28, 1832 in Vienna of a cholera infection and was buried in the Währing cemetery.
His current grave of honor is in the Vienna Central Cemetery (group 32 A, number 45). His gravestone bears the inscription written by Grillparzer, which has been slightly modified compared to the original text of the Währinger grave: Here lies Thomas West, Karl August West and Joseph Schreyvogel, three names denote only one man but one complete. If anyone was close to Lessing, it was him. His daughter Joseph Bekers rests next to him. She laid the same disease in the same grave within two days. Germany mourns one, both who knew them.
Honors
- In 1885, the Schreyvogelgasse in Vienna's Innere Stadt (1st district) was named after him.
- At the Institute for Theater, Film and Media Studies at the University of Vienna there is a lecture hall named after him in the Hofburg.
Works
- Life a dream . 1820
- Donna Diana . 1819
- Don Gutierre . 1834
- Samuel Brink's last love story . In: German Novellenschatz . Edited by Paul Heyse and Hermann Kurz. Vol. 10. 2nd ed. Berlin, [1910], pp. 1-94. In: Weitin, Thomas (Ed.): Fully digitized corpus. The German Novellenschatz . Darmstadt / Konstanz, 2016. ( digitized and full text in the German text archive )
literature
- Constantin von Wurzbach : Schreyvogel, Joseph . In: Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich . 31st part. Kaiserlich-Königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1876, pp. 292–298 ( digitized version ).
- Karl Glossy : Joseph Schreyvogel . sn, Vienna 1903
- Eduard Castle : Schreyvogel, Joseph . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 54, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1908, pp. 186-216.
- Elisabeth Buxbaum: Joseph Schreyvogel, the scout in the official skirt . Holzhausen, Vienna 1995, ISBN 3-900518-33-5
- E. Buxbaum: Schreyvogel Joseph. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815–1950 (ÖBL). Volume 11, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 1999, ISBN 3-7001-2803-7 , p. 224 f. (Direct links on p. 224 , p. 225 ).
- Ralph-Günther Patocka: Schreyvogel, Joseph. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , p. 548 f. ( Digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Joseph Schreyvogel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Joseph Schreyvogel in the German Digital Library
- Works by Joseph Schreyvogel in the Gutenberg-DE project
- Joseph Schreyvogel in the Internet Archive
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schreyvogel, Joseph |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | West, Thomas (pseudonym); West, Carl August (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian writer, theater director, dramaturge |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 27, 1768 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 28, 1832 |
| Place of death | Vienna |