!!!Dingelstedt, Franz Freiherr von

Dingelstedt, Baron Franz von, b. Halsdorf near Marburg (Germany), 
June 30, 1814, d. Vienna, May 15, 1881. Writer, dramaturge and 
theatre manager; began career as a secondary school teacher, 
journalist and writer ("Lieder eines kosmopolit. Nachtwaechters", 
1842); 1851-1856 theatre manager in Munich; 1857 in Weimar; 1867-1870 
director of the Hofoper in Vienna, during which time the  State Opera 
was opened on the Ringstrasse in Vienna on May 25, 1869. As the 
director of the old Burgtheater on Michaelerplatz (1870-1881), D. 
succeeded in restoring its glamour; his richly varied programme 
included modern dramas (F. Hebbel), classics and a Shakespeare cycle 
(1875).

!Works
Dramas, translation of Shakespeare histories, novels, novellas, 
political and formally sophisticated poetry, dramaturgical studies and 
autobiographical depictions. - Edition: Saemtliche Werke, 12 vols., 
1877/78.

!Literature
A. Stiepka, F. D. als Dir. des Hofburgtheaters, 
doctoral thesis, Vienna 1949; C. Chalaupka, F. D. als Regisseur, 
doctoral thesis, Vienna 1957.


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