Adolf Bäuerle

Adolf Bäuerle (real name Johann Andreas Bäuerle (9 or 10 April 1786 – 20 September 1859) was an Austrian writer, publisher and main representative of the .

Life

Born in Vienna, 1802 Bäuerle made his debut with the novel ''Sigmund der Stählerne'', which, however, was rejected. After his school time in Vienna Bäuerle got a job as a court official.

At the age of eighteen Bäuerle founded the ''Wiener Theaterzeitung'' in 1804. Until 1847 it was the most widely circulated newspaper in Austria. Between 1808 and 1828 Bäuerle worked in Vienna as a secretary at the Leopoldstädter Theater and favoured the '' Volkstheater'' by virtue of his office. From 1828 he was almost exclusively active in the editorial office of his ''Theaterzeitung'' and engaged the witty writer Moritz Gottlieb Saphir.

After the death of his first wife in 1828 he married the actress on 3 May 1829, with whom he already had a relationship for years before.

In 1848 he founded the magazine ''Die Geißel'', which played an important role during the revolutionary year. The resulting difficulties with the authorities led him to create the ''Volksboten'' in December 1848. This newspaper later became the ''Wiener Telegraph''.

Since his school days Bäuerle wrote, but it was not until 1852 that he was able to publish his first novel. In his early work the pseudonyms ''J. H. Fels'' and ''Otto Horn'' dominate. With his literary work Bäuerle founded the ''Wiener Lokalroman''. In 1813 he created the figure of the umbrella maker "Chrysostomus Staberl" in ', with which he replaced the ''Hanswurst'' and the ''Kasperl''. Together with Josef Alois Gleich and Karl Meisl Bäuerle belonged to the "great three" of the Old Viennese Volkstheater before Ferdinand Raimund.

The legal aftermath of his participation in the March Revolution ruined him financially and also his health. When Bäuerle had to fear for his freedom, he fled to Basel on 17 June 1859 at age 73. There Bäuerle died about a quarter of a year later in the night from 19 to 20 September 1859. In 1869 Bäuerle's remains were exhumed and transferred from Basel to the family crypt at Schloss Erlaa.

Work

* ''Kinder und Narren reden die Wahrheit'', 1806
* ', 1813
* ''Tankred'', 1817
* ', 1819–1821
* ', Vienna 1820 (Reprint: Munich 1990)
* ''Aline oder Wien in einem anderen Weltteil'', 1822
* ''Die Dame mit dem Todtenkopfe'', novel, 1855 (Reprint: Munich 1990)
* ''Zahlheim. Ein Wiener Criminal-Roman'', 1856
* ''Das eingemauerte Mädchen'',''Das eingemauerte Mädchen''
on Google Books Vienna 1857 (Reprint: Munich 1990)
* ''Memoiren.'' First volume. Lechner in Kommission, Vienna 1858 (; no longer published)

Further reading

* Constantin von Wurzbach
Bäuerle Adolf
in ''Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich''
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* : ''Die großen Figuren der altwiener Volkskomödie: Hanswurst, Kasperl, Thaddädl und Staberl, Raimund und Nestroy''. Bindenschild-Verlag, Vienna 1946
* Otto Rommel: ''Die altwiener Volkskomödie''. Schroll, Vienna 1952
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* Siegfried Diehl: ''Durch Spaß das Denken vergessen. Zur gesellschaftlichen Wirklichkeit im Theater Adolf Bäuerles.'' In Jürgen Hein (edit.): ''Theater und Gesellschaft. Das Volksstück im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert''. Düsseldorf 1973. (Literatur in der Gesellschaft, 12)
* Fritz Schobloch: ''Wiener Theater, Wiener Leben, Wiener Moden in den Bilderfolgen Adolf Bäuerles (1806-1858)''. Verlag Verband d. wissenschaftl. Ges. Österreichs, Vienna 1974
* Anton Mantler: ''Adolf Bäuerle und das altwiener Volkstheater''. Vienna City and State Library, Vienna 1986

External links

Adolf Bäuerle
on Wikisource
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in der „Criminalbibliothek des 19. Jahrhunderts“
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* Uwe Harten
OeML, Baeuerle_Adolf Bäuerle, Familie
online-edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ; Printed edition: Volume 1, Publishing House of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 2002, .

References

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Journalists from the Austrian Empire
Opinion journalists
Austrian publishers (people)
Businesspeople from the Austrian Empire
1786 births
1859 deaths
Writers from Vienna
Austrian magazine founders
19th-century Austrian journalists