Ferdinand Raimund

Ferdinand Raimund (1790-1836), the son of a master turner from Bohemia, acted at the Josefstadt theatre from 1811, then in 1817 joined the Leopoldstadt theatre, where he became stage director in 1821 and director from 1828 to 1830. There he wrote eight plays blending fairy-tale fantasy and satire of manners, which made him the first comic author of the suburban stages. His private life was unhappy. Bitten by a dog that he wrongly believed to be rabid, he shot himself on 29 August 1836 and died a few days later at Pottenstein, in Lower Austria.

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• TheatreThe Barometer-Maker on the Magic IslandDer Barometermacher auf der ZauberinselFerdinand Raimund · 1823LiteraturePublic domain