Bernhard Ludwig Buchbinder (7 July or 20 September 1849 – 24 June 1922), pseudonym ''Gustav Klinger'', was an Austro-Hungarian actor, journalist and writer. His best-known operetta

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remains '' Die Försterchristl''.

Career

Buchbinder was born in

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, then part of the

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. His date of birth is, according to different sources, 7 July or 20 September 1849. Initially he was an actor, later he was the publisher of the humorous fiction weekly ''Das kleine Journal'' in Budapest. He moved to Vienna in 1887 and lived there as a feature writer; among others he wrote for the '. Beside his journalistic activity Buchbinder wrote novels, folk plays and especially operetta libretti in Viennese style. Buchbinder died in

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Works

* ''Der Satan vom Neugebäude''. Novel (1884) * ''Der Sänger von Palermo''. 3 acts

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(1888) * ''Die Teufelsglocke''. 3 acts opera (1891) * ''Eine Wiener Theaterprinzessin''. Novel (1894) * ''Fräulein Hexe''. 3 acts operette (together with

Alfred Maria Willner Alfred Maria Willner (11 July 1859 – 27 October 1929) was an Austrian writer, philosopher, musicologist, composer and librettist. Biography Alfred Maria Willner was born and died in Vienna. He began composing mostly music for the piano and eve ...

) * ''Die Flüchtlinge''. 3 acts

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* ''Die Küchen Comtesse''. Farce with singing in 3 acts * ''Die Dame vom Zirkus''. Operette * ''Der Kibitz''. Farce with singing in 3 acts * ''Der Schmetterling''. 3 acts operette (together with Alfred Maria Willner), 1896 * ''

Die Göttin der Vernunft ''Die Göttin der Vernunft'' (''The Goddess of Reason'') was the last completed operetta of Johann Strauss II. It was written to a libretto by A. M. Willner and Bernhard Buchbinder and was first performed at the Theater an der Wien on 13 March 18 ...

''. Operette (together with Alfred Maria Willner), 1897 Music by

Johann Strauss II Johann Baptist Strauss II (25 October 1825 – 3 June 1899), also known as Johann Strauss Jr., the Younger or the Son (german: links=no, Sohn), was an Austrian composer of light music, particularly dance music and operettas. He composed ov ...

. * ''Leute von Heute''. farce with singing in 3 acts (1899) (music by

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) * ''Er und seine Schwester''. Farce with singing in 4 scenes (1902) (music by

Rudolf Raimann Rudolf Raimann (7 May 1861, Veszprém, Hungary – 26 September 1913, Vienna, Austria) was a Hungarian composer. For many years he worked as the chief composer and music director to Prince Esterházy. He composed 15 operas and operettas for t ...

) * ''Der Musikant und sein Weib''. Folk play with song in 4 acts (1903) * ''Das Wäschermädel''. Operette (1905) * ''Der Schusterbub''. Farce with singing in 4 scenes (1906) * '' Die Försterchristl''. 3 acts operette (1907) * ''Paula macht alles''. Operetten-Posse in 4 Akten (1909) * ''Das Musikantenmädel''. 3 acts operette (1910) * ''Das neue Mädchen''. 3 acts vaudeville (1911) * ''Die Frau Gretl''. Farce with singing in 3 acts (1911) * ''Die Marie-Gustl''. Operette (1912) * ''Die Wundermühle''. Possenspiel in 3 acts (1914) * ''Graf Habenichts''. 3 acts operette (around 1917) * ''Jungfer Sonnenschein''. Operette (1918) * ''Zum goldenen Segen''. Folk play with song in 3 acts (1921)

Bibliography

Felix Czeike Felix Czeike (21 August 1926 – 23 April 2006) was an Austrian historian and popular educator. He was an author and partly also editor of numerous publications on the history of Vienna and was the director of the . His main work is the six-volume ...

(editor): Buchbinder Bernhard Ludwig. In: Historisches Lexikon Wien. Band 1, Kremayr & Scheriau, Wien 1992, .Wienbibliothek
/ref> * * ''Buchbinder, Bernhard.'' In '. Volume 4: ''Brech–Carle.'' Hrsg. vom Archiv Bibliographia Judaica. Saur, München 1996, , .

References

External links

* ''Jewish Encyclopedia''
"Buchbinder, Bernhard"
by Isidore Singer & Frederick Haneman (1906). * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Buchbinder, Bernhard 1849 births 1922 deaths Male actors from Budapest 19th-century Austrian male writers 20th-century Austrian male writers Austrian librettists