Hanswurst or Hans Wurst (German for "Johnny Sausage") was a popular coarse-comic stock character of German-speaking impromptu comedy. He is "a half doltish...
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the Italian commedia dell'arte and emphasized the stock character of Hanswurst, a coarse and robust character who would entertain his audience by pretending...
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Shirt"), politicians (French Ambassador André François-Poncet called him Hanswurst "Hans the Brown Sausage") and from the National Socialists themselves...
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The Wurstelprater (Wurstel or Wurschtel being the Viennese name for Hanswurst) is an amusement park and section of the Wiener Prater (a park) in Leopoldstadt...
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Weisen. Especially for the role of Papageno, the libretto draws on the Hanswurst tradition of the Viennese popular theatre. Many scholars also acknowledge...
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("People's Prater") or Wurstelprater (after the Harlequin-type figure of Hanswurst), and at its entrance there is the giant Wiener Riesenrad Ferris wheel...
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and original plays, and by banishing from it the coarse buffooneries of Hanswurst (Jack Pudding). In 1730, Gottsched was appointed an extraordinary professor...
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literally meant "pickled herring". As with wurst ("sausage") in the name, Hanswurst, the figure of fun in 18th century German travelling theatres, or potage...
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Mark Anthony, and Othello at length. Commedia dell'arte Columbine Clown Hanswurst – a stock character of German travelling theater Pickelhering – a 17th-century...
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and specialized in playing the grotesque stock characters, perhaps a Hanswurst for the theater in Brünn. After a spell in theaters in Vienna and Salzburg;...
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of most audiences of the day." In 1737, Neuber symbolically banished Hanswurst from the stage as part of her efforts to elevate the status of German...
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principal works are the following: Der alte Odoardo und der lächerliche Hanswurst (1755); Die reisenden Komödianten (1774), a comedy full of wit and humor;...
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Flute). Schikaneder took the role of Papageno—a character reflecting the Hanswurst tradition, and thus suited to his skills—at the premiere. According to...
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Perckhammer Friedrich Domin as Johann Neuber Ludwig Schmitz as Müller, Hanswurst Sonja Gerda Scholz as Feigin Lucy Millowitsch as Lorenz Bettina Moissi...
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appear to have been commonly created in Mozart and Schickaneder's day. The Hanswurst character was a mainstay of the popular theater tradition in Vienna, dating...
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during a period in Old Viennese folk theatre [de], after the earlier Hanswurst-theatre and before the folk theatre of Ferdinand Raimund and Johann Nestroy...
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und Hanswurst; Das tragische Schicksal des Hofgelehrten Jacob Paul von Gundling. DVA Stuttgart München 2001, p.10 Martin Sabrow, Herr und Hanswurst; Das...
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performed for their living. One of these performances was the Wiener Hanswurst (Viennese Fool) by Josef Stranitzky. Since the Hofburg Imperial Palace...
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Danish Contortionist. Nella Cornella Emeraldina clown. Bernhard Notkin Hanswurst clown. Ferdi Spenz Kesperle clown. Cecil Wheeler The Wheeling Wheelers...
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"Chrysostomus Staberl" in Die Bürger in Wien [de], with which he replaced the Hanswurst and the Kasperl. Together with Josef Alois Gleich and Karl Meisl Bäuerle...
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National-Theater at Gendarmenmarkt from 1802 onwards. Dagmar Claus: Einer, der den Hanswurst vertrieb. Carl Theophil Doebbelin (1727–1793). In: Berlinische Monatsschrift...
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and Rembrandt Figures at the Burgtheater: Don Juan, Phaidra, Falstaff, Hanswurst, William Shakespeare, Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Molière, Gotthold Ephraim...
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would become quite useless and unenjoyable in his "wuste of tasteless and hanswurst-like polemics". Fahne responded to Scotti's remarks the same year by writing...
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(empty cards). Trump 1 shows the Kleiner Mann ("Little Man", based on Hanswurst) but is typically called the Geiss ("nanny goat"), while trump 2 has mythological...
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Naturwissenschaft. 4 volumes (1781–1783, 1787) Neues Ungrisches Magazin (1791–1792) Hanswurst. Ein Lustspiel in einem Aufzuge. Pressburg, 1761 Der vernünftige Zeitvertreiber...
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Scholz seemed to have divided themselves into the inheritance of the Hanswurst: all sharpness and mobility fell to Nestroy, all width and comfort came...
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1932 (Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek). Dagmar Claus: Einer, der den Hanswurst vertrieb. Carl Theophil Doebbelin (1727–1793). In the Berlinische Monatsschrift...
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innuendos, bawdy jokes and farcical interludes involving Harlequin or Hanswurst characters. The performances consisted of a sequence of action-packed...
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