See also:FERDINAND See also:RAIMUND (1990-1836)
, See also:Austrian actor and dramatist, was See also:born on the 1st of See also:June 1790, in See also:Vienna
.
In 181'4 he acted at the Josefstadter Theater, and in 1817 at the Leopoldstadter Theater
.
In 1823 he produced his first See also:play, Der Barometermacher auf der Zauberinsel, which was followed by Der Diamant See also:des Geisterkonigs (1824) and the still popular See also:Bauer als Milliondr
.
The last-mentioned play, which appeared in 1826, Der Alpenkonig and der Menschenfeind (1828) and Der Verschwender (1833) are See also:Raimund's masterpieces
.
He committed See also:suicide on the 5th of See also:September 1836, owing to the fear that he had been bitten by a mad See also:dog
.
Raimund was a See also:master of the Viennese Posse or See also:farce; his See also:rich See also:humour is seen to best See also:advantage in his realistic portraits of his See also:fellow-citizens
.
Raimund's Sdmtliche Werke (with See also:biography by J
.
N
.
Vogl) appeared in 4 vols
.
(1837); they have been also edited by K
.
Glossy and A
.
Sauer (4 vols., 1881; 2nd ed., 1891), and a selection by E
.
See also:Castle (1903)
.
See E
.
See also:Schmidt in Charakteristiken, vol. i
.
(1886); A
.
See also:Farinelli, See also:Grillparzer and Raimund (1897) ; L
.
A
.
See also:Frankl, Zur Biographic F
.
Raimondo (1884); and especially A
.
Sauer's See also:article in the Allgem
.
Deutsche Biographic
.
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