Thaddädl
Thaddädl (a diminutive of the first name Thaddäus ) is a standing role or funny person of the Alt-Wiener Volkstheater towards the end of the 18th century, which was performed by Anton Hasenhut (1766–1841) based on the Viennese Kasperl or the pantalone of the Commedia dell'arte was developed. According to Ignaz Franz Castellis , Thaddädl was "a journeyman or an apprentice, silly, fearful, stupid, at the same time cheeky and young, who had the braid tied at the top of his head and stood out horizontally." The voice sounded like the "pounding of a child's trumpet".
The Viennese theater reforms at the end of the century, however, tore the improvised theater from the ground, so that this figure no longer had a future. The name occasionally appears in the staff of the later antics, such as with Ferdinand Kringsteiner .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gerhard Robert Walter of Coeckelberghe-Dützele: Curiositäten- and memorabilia-Lexicon of Vienna , Vienna: 1846, Vol 2, p. 7.