Ludwig Anzengruber

Ludwig Anzengruber (1839-1889) was born in Vienna; his father, a minor clerk in the imperial accounts office who wrote verse and dramas, died when the child was five. An apprentice bookseller, dismissed in 1858, he became an actor and toured the provincial stages of the Empire for seven years, accompanied by his mother, in great poverty. Taken on in 1869 as a clerk at the Vienna police headquarters, he left it the following year, after the success of his first anticlerical play, but had to write for the newspapers until his death.

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• TheatreThe Fourth CommandmentDas vierte GebotLudwig Anzengruber · 1877LiteraturePublic domain