Mayer, Karl Felix Martin#
b. Vienna, April 28, 1753, d. Vienna, May 13, 1830, actor, theatre manager, playwright, principal of a travelling theatre with which he toured in Austria-Hungary until 1788. In 1788 founded the Theater in der Josefstadt and became its first manager (until 1812).
Literature#
H. A. Mansfeld, Miscellen um K. M., den Gruender des Josefstaedter Theaters, in: Jahrbuch der Gesellschaft fuer Theaterforschung XII, 1960.