Ottokar Franz Ebersberg

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Ottokar Franz Ebersberg (1833–1886)

Ottokar Franz Ebersberg (born October 10, 1833 in Vienna ; † January 16, 1886 there ) was a Viennese theater poet and journalist known under the pseudonym O. F. Berg .

Ebersberg was the son of the journalist Josef Sigmund Ebersberg and his wife Marie von Nándory; the later officer and writer Karl Julius Ebersberg was his brother.

Live and act

Through the friends of his parents, Ebersberg had contact with writers and artists from an early age; among others on Johann Ludwig Deinhardstein and Ludwig August Frankl von Hochwart . Already at the age of 18 Ebersberg got a job in the lower state administration in 1851. Ebersberg worked as an administrative officer for nine years; 1860 as an official of the Lottery Directorate . During these years Ebersberg began to write and made his debut as a theater writer in 1854.

In 1858 Ebersberg married Karoline Schachner in Vienna, from whom he divorced in 1869. In 1873 Ebersberg married the actress Maria Klang , also in Vienna .

Kikeriki - Title Line (1901)

Encouraged by his successes, Ebersberg resigned in 1860 and settled down as a freelance writer. In 1859 he founded the satirical weekly Tritsch-Tratsch and, as its successor, the satirical magazine Kikeriki , which appeared weekly from November 7, 1861 and which was to survive the founder by decades. Ebersberg was considered a democrat who, as a journalist as well as a satirist, always made himself the mouthpiece of the little man . Ebersberg repeatedly addressed tolerance in the coexistence of the various denominations in Vienna.

The approximately 150 comedies , antics , parodies, etc. soon earned Ebersberg the nickname “ Possenkönig von Wien” ; almost all of them were a success on stage. He wrote some of his plays especially for the actresses Josefine Gallmeyer and Marie Geistinger . Ebersberg worked with Bittner and Gärtner on many of his pieces.

In 1872 Ebersberg founded the Illustrierte Wiener Extrablatt , a political satirical magazine, together with the journalist Franz Ignaz von Singer (1828–1886) . Ebersberg celebrated his last great success in the winter of 1873 when his play A Word to the Reichsrat appeared. Here he addressed ideas for the radical modernization of the applicable marriage laws. The play was banned before the premiere, but was staged by Friedrich Strampfer in Budapest on January 26, 1874 for an enthusiastic audience.

Then it became quiet around Ebersberg and his pieces were no longer in demand on stage. He withdrew into private life and settled in Döbling . He repeatedly fell into depression and died at the age of 52 on January 16, 1886 in a mental hospital .

Because of his plays, in which he repeatedly addressed political and social problems and tried to entertain the people in coarse language with wit and quick-wittedness, literary criticism often compared him to Carlo Goldoni . David Kalisch in particular arranged some pieces by Ebersberg for Berlin theaters. B. from Ein Wiener Dienstbot the burlesque Berlin, how it cries and laughs , which had almost the same success as the Viennese original. Ebersberg also published several almanacs and calendars, most of which he wrote himself.

In 1926 Ebersberggasse in Vienna- Hietzing was named after him.

He died on January 16, 1886 in Vienna and was buried in the Matzleinsdorfer Evangelical Cemetery (crypt center above, no. 48).

Works

  • A servant from Vienna (1857)
  • One of our people (1859)
  • The Pastor's Cook (1868)
  • The old box (1865)
  • Abandoned children
  • The tasting mam
  • The last national guard
  • Nemesis (1869)
  • The girl without money
  • The German brother
  • A word to the Reichsrat (1873, UA 1874)
  • The merciful brother
  • A feisty person (1875)
  • The foolish cobbler. Viennese folk antics with song (1877)
  • 12 o'clock (1863)
  • No. 28 (1868)

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personal data
SURNAME Ebersberg, Ottokar Franz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Berg, OF (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian theater poet and author
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1833
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH January 16, 1886
Place of death Vienna