!!!Gleich, Joseph Alois Pseudonyme Adolph Blum, Ludwig Dellarosa, Alois Kramer, H. Walden

d. Vienna, Feb. 10, 1841, civil servant, author of novels and 
playwright. Plays esp. for the  Leopoldstaedter Theater in Vienna and 
the  Theater in der Josefstadt, where he was deputy director from 
1814-1816, renowned for his Viennese farces, together with A.  
Baeuerle and K.  Meisl known as the "Great Three" of the  
Altwiener Volkstheater before F.  Raimund, his son-in-law whom he 
helped to become famous. Although he wrote huge numbers of works (over 
100 novels in the gothic tradition; approx. 250 plays), G. quickly 
fell into oblivion and ended his days in poverty.

!Works
Novels: Fridolin von Eichenfels, 1796; Die Todtenfackel, 1798; 
Der Eheteufel auf Reisen, 1822; etc. - Edition: Ausgewaehlte Werke, 
publ. by O. Rommel, 1910.

!Literature
O. Rommel, Die Altwiener Volkskomoedie, 1952; V. Klotz, 
Buergerliches Lachtheater, 1980; OeBL.


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