LUDWIG ANZENGRUBER (1839-1889) |
AUSTRIAN
dramatist and novelist Ludwig Anzengruber was born at Vienna
on the 29th of November 1839. He was educated at the Realschule
of his native town, and then entered a bookseller's shop; from
1860 to 1867 he was an actor, without, however, displaying any
marked talent, although his stage experience later stood him
in great stead. In 1869 he became a clerk in the Viennese police
department, but having in the following year made a success with
his anti-clerical drama, Der Pfarrer von Kirchfeld, he
gave up his appointment and devoted himself entirely to literature.
He died at Vienna on the 10th of December 1889. Anzengruber was
exceedingly fertile in ideas, and wrote a great many plays. They
are mostly of Austrian peasant life, and although somewhat melancholy
in tone are interspersed with bright and witty scenes. Among
the best known are Der Meineidbauer (1871), Die Kreuzelschreiber
(1872), Der G'wissenswurm (1874), Hand und Herz
(1875), Doppelselbstmord (1875), Das vierte Gebot
(1877), and Der Fleck auf der Ehr' (1889). Anzengruber
also published a novel of considerable merit, Der Schandfleck
(1876; remodelled 1884); and various short stories and tales
of village life collected under the title Wolken und Sunn'schein
(1888).
This article was originally
published in Encyclopedia Britannica, Eleventh Edition.
F.T.M. Cambridge: University Press, 1911.
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