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Johann Nepomuk Eduard Ambrosius Nestroy (German: [ˈnɛstrɔɪ̯]; 7 December 1801 – 25 May 1862) was a singer, actor and playwright in the popular Austrian tradition of the Biedermeier period and its immediate aftermath.
May 21, 2024 · Johann Nestroy was one of Austria’s greatest comic dramatists, and a brilliant character actor who dominated the mid-19th-century Viennese popular stage. After a career as an opera singer (1822–31) in several European cities, Nestroy returned to Vienna and began writing and acting.
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Johann Nepomuk Eduard Ambrosius Nestroy war ein österreichischer Dramatiker, Schauspieler und Opernsänger. Sein Werk ist der literarische Höhepunkt des Alt-Wiener Volkstheaters.
Sep 7, 2017 · Johann Nestroy: Umsonst, BR 1967, Regie: Michael Kehlmann. Mit Peter Weck, Helmut Qualtinger, Fritz Eckhardt, Oskar Sima u.a.
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Einen Jux will er sich machen (1842) (He Will Go on a Spree or He'll Have Himself a Good Time), is a three-act musical play, designated as a Posse mit Gesang ("farce with singing"), by Austrian playwright Johann Nestroy.
This is a complete list of the plays of the Austrian singer-actor-playwright Johann Nestroy (1801–1862). Genres. Out of the 83 recorded works of Nestroy, a total of some 56 were designated as some form of Posse, meaning a farce or 'broad comedy', including 32 Possen mit Gesang (farce with singing).
Professor Yates brings a unique combination of qualities to the daunting task of writing a modern biography of Johann Nestroy: a lifetime’s scholarly companionship of his subject, documented in a long list of publications, from his early Nestroy: Satire and Parody in Viennese Popular Comedy () up to this latest work; decades of experience as co-...
