!!!Prehauser, Gottfried

b. Vienna, Oct. 8, 1699, 
d. Vienna, Jan. 29, 1769, actor and writer. After his debut with a 
travelling company and performances at the Vienna Marionette Theatre 
was a travelling comedian in South Germany and Austria, 1720 in 
Salzburg known as the Salzburg Buffoon  Hanswurst; 1725 came to the 
Kaerntnertortheater in Vienna, where he succeeded J. A.  Stranitzky as 
the "New Viennese Buffoon"; and after his death took P. over the 
management of the "German Comedians" ("Teutschen Comoedianten"). 
Outstanding interpreter of impromptu plays, but also of "normal" plays 
(G. E. Lessing), wrote local farces and burlesques and satirical, 
humourous "New Year's Wishes" ("Neujahrswuensche").

!Literature
G. Gugitz, Der weiland Kasperl, 1920; O. Rommel, Die 
Altwiener Volkskomoedie, 1952; M. Baar-de Zwaan, G. P. und seine 
Zeit, doctoral thesis, Vienna 1967.



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