Carl Karlweis, originally Karl Weiss

Wilhelm Kosch Wilhelm Franz Josef Kosch (2 October 1879 – 20 December 1960) was an Austrian historian of literature and theatre and lexicographer. The lexicon that he conceived and later revised several times, the ' is a references in the field of German ...

, Ingrid Bigler-Marschall: ''Deutsches Theater-Lexikon. Biographisches und bibliographisches Handbuch''. Vol.6, #32/33;

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– 27 October 1901, in Vienna) was an Austrian

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and short story writer. Of Jewish ancestry, he converted to

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in 1889.Anna Staudacher: ''Jüdisch-protestantische Konvertiten in Wien 1782–1914''. Vol.2 (Selektive Edition). Lang, Frankfurt am Main, 2004, , pg.774.

Biography

He was originally an employee of the

Imperial Royal Privileged Austrian State Railway Company The Imperial Royal Privileged Austrian State Railway Company (German: ''k. k. privilegierte österreichische Staatseisenbahn-Gesellschaft''), from 1 January 1883 the Privileged Austro-Hungarian State Railway Company (''privilegierte österreic ...

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. He switched to the

Galician Railway of Archduke Charles Louis The Imperial and Royal privileged Galician Railway of Archduke Charles Louis (german: k.k.priv. Galizische Carl Ludwig-Bahn, pl, c.k. uprzyw. Kolej Galicyjska im. Karola Ludwika) was a privately owned railway company in the Austro-Hungarian prov ...

in 1869. He was already active as a writer by 1876, when he was works secretary for the . From 1891, he was the Chief Inspector for the Austrian Southern Railway Company. He wrote numerous short tales and novels, some in the Viennese dialect. Together with

Hermann Bahr Hermann Anastas Bahr (; 19 July 1863 – 15 January 1934) was an Austrian writer, playwright, director, and critic. Biography Born and raised in Linz, Bahr studied in Vienna, Graz, Czernowitz and Berlin, devoting special attention to philosophy, ...

and , he wrote comedies and folk plays, which were performed at the Volkstheater. In 1896, his play ''Der kleine Mann'' (The Little Man) was awarded the ' for playwrights; named in honor of the actor and dramatist,

Ferdinand Raimund Ferdinand Raimund (born Ferdinand Jakob Raimann; 1 June 1790 – 5 September 1836, Pottenstein, Lower Austria) was an Austrian actor and dramatist. Life and work He was born in Vienna as a son of Bohemian woodturning master craftsman Jako ...

. For many years he suffered from a serious stomach problem. What would turn out to be his last play, ''The New Simson'', was written in 1901 and presented at the Volkstheater, with and Helene Odilon in the lead roles. It was a major success. He died a few months later, after taking the "cure" at the spa in

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. He was married to Emilie, née Kraus (1864-1938). They had two children; , who became a writer, and

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, a stage and film actor. In 1919, a street in Vienna's

Währing Währing () is the 18th district of Vienna and lies in northwestern Vienna on the edge of the Vienna Woods. It was formed in 1892 from the unification of the older suburbs of Währing, Weinhaus, Gersthof, Pötzleinsdorf, Neustift am Walde and Sa ...

district was named after him.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Karlweis, Carl 1850 births 1901 deaths Dramatists and playwrights from Austria-Hungary Short story writers from Austria-Hungary Austrian Southern Railway Company Writers from Vienna

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