!!!Hensler Henseler, Karl Friedrich

b. Vaihingen a. 
d. Enz (Germany), Feb. 1, 1759, d. Vienna, Nov. 24, 1825, theatre 
playwright and theatre manager. >From 1813 director of the Theater an 
der Wien, from 1822 director of the Theater in der Josefstadt. Wrote 
many plays following the tradition of the traditional Viennese  
Volkstheater.

!Works
Kasperl, der Besenbinder, 1787; Sophie Romani, 1790; Kaspar, 
der Schornsteinfeger, 1791; Die Teufelsmuehle am Wienerberg, 1801; Die 
Nymphe der Donau, 1803. - Ed. of the "Marinellische Schaubuehne", 4 
vols., 1790-1791.

!Literature
N. Wiltsch, K. F. H., doctoral thesis, Vienna 1926; O. 
Rommel, Die Alt-Wiener Volkskomoedie, 1952.



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