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Karl Haffner (
pseudonym A pseudonym (; ) or alias () is a fictitious name that a person or group assumes for a particular purpose, which differs from their original or true name (orthonym). This also differs from a new name that entirely or legally replaces an individua ...
), real name Karl Schlechter, (8 November 1804 – 29 February 1876) was a German
dramaturge A dramaturge or dramaturg is a literary adviser or editor in a theatre, opera, or film company who researches, selects, adapts, edits, and interprets scripts, libretti, texts, and printed programmes (or helps others with these tasks), consults auth ...
.


Life and work

Born in
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, Haffner attended the
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. Already at the age of 16 he joined a travelling troupe and as a travelling comedian he passed through Prussia, Saxony, Silesia, Austria and Hungary. After ten years he became a dramatist and
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at the Pest Theater with Feodor Grimm, after he had already made some dramatic attempts before. In Pest he wrote
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like ''The robbery shooters, The curl of the decapitated, Blocks of the grave, Schwarzenberg and Palffy'' and ''Batorys Tod,'' which received the stormy applause of the audience. The well-known theatre director
Carl Carl Karl Andreas Bernbrunn (1787–1854), known by the stage name Carl Carl, was a Kraków-born actor and theatre director. Bernbrunn was born illegitimately to Maria Anna Alxinger and Karl Andrä Bernbrunn. Maria Anna was the wife of the poet (175 ...
in Vienna strangely recognized Haffner's talent for the local posse in this work and engaged him for nine years for the
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as a theatre poet. Haffner had to commit himself to the delivery of eleven plays per year and he kept this contract. Later he turned to the
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and edited the satirical weekly ''Böse Zungen''. Haffner achieved his first major success with the romantic-comical folk tale ''Das Marmor-Herz,'' which won a second prize in 1841 and was premiered on April 21 of that year at the Theater an der Wien. Permanently his three-act genre picture '' Therese Krones'' has been preserved, in which he brought the Raimund circle onto the stage. Besides dramas Haffner also wrote more than 30 volumes of novels. One of them, ''Scholz and Nestroy'' (1864 to 1866, 3 volumes), contains various things about the history of his life. Together with
Richard Genée Franz Friedrich Richard Genée (7 February 1823 – 15 June 1895) was a Prussian born Austrian libretto, librettist, playwright, and composer. Life Genée was born in Gdańsk, Danzig. He died at Baden bei Wien. Works He is most famous for the ...
he wrote the
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of the Operetta ''
Die Fledermaus ' (, ''The Flittermouse'' or ''The Bat'', sometimes called ''The Revenge of the Bat'') is an operetta composed by Johann Strauss II to a German libretto by Karl Haffner and Richard Genée, which premiered in 1874. Background The original ...
'' (music:
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) Critics have treated Haffner with little encouragement and leniency, although humour and skilful character drawing cannot be denied in his plays. Haffner, during his last years of life incapable of working due to illness and
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of the ', ''left a large family in misery and distress''; he was buried in the
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(3-4-41) in a dedicated grave of the city of Vienna.Hedwig Abraham (editor)
''Karl Haffner''.
In ''viennatouristguide.at'', accessed December 4, 2014.
In 1955, in Vienna
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(22nd district of Vienna), the Haffnergasse was named after him.


Work

* ''Oesterreichisches Volks-Theater''. Reclam, Leipzig 1845. Volume 1/3: ** ''Das Marmor-Herz. Romantisch-komisches Volks-Mährchen mit Gesang, in drei Aufzügen. Music by Adolf Müller''. (world premiere 1841).
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** ''Der wilde Jäger oder: Das rothe Häuschen. Charakter-Skizze mit Gesang in drei Aufzügen. Music by
Michael Hebenstreit Michael Hebenstreit (ca 1812 – after 1875) was an Austrian Kapellmeister and composer for stage music. Life Almost nothing has been handed down about Hebenstreit's life, only a few scores have survived. He was a successor to Adolf Müller ...
''. (world premiere 1841).
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** ''Der Tod und der Wunder-Doctor. Komisches Volks-Mährchen mit Gesang in drei Aufzügen. Music by Michael Hebenstreit''. (world premiere 1841).
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* ''Oesterreichisches Volks-Theater''. Reclam, Leipzig 1846. Volume 2/3: ** ''Die Thränenquelle. Romantisch-komisches Mährchen mit Gesang in zwei Aufzügen. Nebst einem damit verbundenen Vorspiele. Musik von Adolf Müller''. (world premiere 1842). .
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** ''Die Wiener Stubenmädchen oder: Der Ball in der Schuster-Werkstatt. Posse mit Gesang in zwei Aufzügen. Musik von Michael Hebenstreit''. (world premiere 1840).
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** ''Der Stock im Eisen oder: Das schwarze Weib im Wiener-Walde. Romantisch-komisches Volks-Mährchen mit Gesang in vier Aufzügen. Musik von Adolf Müller''. (world premiere 1839).
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* ''Oesterreichisches Volks-Theater''. Reclam, Leipzig 1846. Volume 3/3: ** ''Peter Kranau oder: Der Räuber und sein Kind. Drama mit Gesang und Tanz in zwei Aufzügen. Musik von
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''. (world premiere 1843).
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** ''Asmodus, der hinkende Teufel oder: Eine Promenade durch drei Jahrhunderte. Komischer Bilderkasten mit Gesang und Tanz in drei Abtheilungen. Musik von Adolf Müller''. (world premiere 1839).
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** ''Der Zeitgeist oder: Ein Besuch aus der Vorzeit. Komisches Phantasie-Gemäldemit Gesang in drei Aufzügen. Musik von Adolf Müller''. (world premiere 1841).
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* —,
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(music): ''Das Reserl am Krippenstein. Posse mit Gesang in drei Abtheilungen, aufgeführt auf der k. k. priv. Josefstädter-Bühne in Wien''. Manuscript, Vienna 1850.
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* —, Adolf Müller (music): ''Wenzl Scholz. Skizzen aus dem Künstlerleben mit Gesang in drei Akten''. Sommer, Vienna 1859.

* —, Adolf Müller (music): ''Die Studenten von Rummelstadt. Genrebild mit Gesang und Tanz in drei Akten''. Manuscript, Vienna 1861.

* —, Josef Pfundheller,
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(music): ''Die beiden Nachtwächter oder Ein Spuk in der Faschingsnacht. Posse mit Gesang und Tanz in drei Acten, frei nach einer Novelle von H(einrich) Zschokke''. Wallishausser, Vienna 1862.
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* —, Josef Pfundheller,
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(music): ''Severin von Jaroszynski oder Der Blaumantel vom Trattnerhof. Genrebild mit Gesang und Tanz in vier Acten als Seitenstück zu Therese Krones''. Wallishausser, Vienna 1862.
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* —, Adolf Müller (music): ''Therese Krones. Genrebild mit Gesang und Tanz in drei Acten''. Manuscript, Vienna 1862.

* —,
Julius Hopp Julius Hopp (18 May 1819 – 28 August 1885) was an Austrian composer, conductor, arranger and translator. Life and career Born in Graz, Empire of Austria, the son of the actor and poet Friedrich Hopp, Lucius became known in the 1860s and 1870s ...
(music): ''Die lange Nase. Posse mit Gesang in einem Acte. Libretto''. Manuskript, Vienna 1863.
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* —, Adolf Müller (music): ''Die Sternenjungfrau. Romantisch-komisches Märchen mit Gesang und Tanz in drei Abtheilungen''. Manuscript, Vienna 1863.

* ''Louis Napoleon und die Pfarrerstochter. Original-Roman''. Albert Last, Vienna 1866.

* ''Scholz und Nestroy. Roman aus dem Künstlerleben''. Hermann Markgraf, Vienna 1866.

* ''Nonne und Maitresse. Roman aus dem Wiener Leben''. Albert Last, Vienna 1867.

* ''Die schönen Weiber von Wien. Humoristischer Roman aus dem Wiener-Volksleben''. Albert Last, Vienna 1867.

* ''Jungfernblut. Original-Roman''. Edwin Müller, Vienna 1869.

* ''Was sich die Kammerzofen erzählen. Roman''. Edwin Müller, Vienna 1870.

* ''Der verkaufte Schlaf. Romantisch-komisches Märchen mit Gesang und Tanz in drei Aufzügen nach
Moritz Gottlieb Saphir Moritz Gottlieb Saphir, born Moses Saphir (8 February 1795 in Lovasberény near Székesfehérvár – 5 September 1858 in Baden bei Wien) was an Austrian-Jewish satirical writer and journalist. Life Saphir was the son of the merchant Gottlieb (I ...
's Gedicht gleichen Namens. In den K. K. pr. Theatern an der Wien und in der Josefstadt mit großem Beifall aufgeführt''. Reclam, Leipzig 1870.
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* ''Die Kinder von Neudorf. Roman''. J. Neidl, Wien 1871.

* ''Der Mann ohne Herz. Roman''. J. Neidl, Wien 1871.

* Johann Strauss, —, Richard Genée: ''Arien & Gesänge aus: Die Fledermaus, komische Operette in drei Acten after (Henri) Meilhac and (Ludovic) Halévy''. Lewy, Vienna ca. 1874.
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* ''Bekannte und unbekannte Grössen. Skizzen und Novelletten aus der Kunst- und Theaterwelt'' von Carl Haffner. Vienna: Selbstverlag der Witwe des Verfassers Frau Elise Haffner: In Commission bei H. Engel, 1884
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Further reading

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Constantin von Wurzbach Constantin Wurzbach Ritter von Tannenberg (11 April 1818 – 17 August 1893) was an Austrian biographer, lexicographer and author. Biography He was born in Laibach, Carniola (present-day Ljubljana, Slovenia).He later went on to complete a cou ...

Haffner, Karl (Pseudonym)
In ''
Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich ''Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich'' (English, ''Biographical Encyclopedia of the Austrian Empire'') (abbreviated ''Wurzbach'' from the author's surname) is a 60-volume work, edited and published by Constantin von Wurzbach, cont ...
''. 7th part. Kaiserlich-königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1861, .
Numerised
. * Constantin von Wurzbach
Schlechter, Karl (real name Name). In ''Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich''. 30. Theil. Kaiserlich-königliche Hof- und Staatsdruckerei, Vienna 1875,
Numerised
. * * Elisabeth Th. Hilscher-Fritz
Hafner (Haffner, eig. Schlechter, Schlächter), Karl
In ''Oesterreichisches Musiklexikon
''. Online-edition, Vienna 2002 ff., ; print edition: volume 2, Austrian Academy of Sciences publishing house, Vienna 2003, . * ''Das Herz einer Künstlerin'' (Henriette Sontag as Wohltäterin). In ''Die Gartenlaube''. Issue 51, 1866,
Complete text
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Robert Blum Robert Blum (10 November 1807 – 9 November 1848) was a German democratic politician, publicist, poet, publisher, revolutionist and member of the National Assembly of 1848. In his fight for a strong, unified Germany he opposed ethnocentrism a ...
und der arme Poet (Robert Blum und der Dichter von ''Die Studenten von Rummelstadt''). In ''Die Gartenlaube''. Issue 25, 1867,
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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Haffner, Karl 19th-century German writers 19th-century German male writers German librettists 1804 births 1876 deaths Writers from Königsberg