Karl haffner die fledermaus the tick

German actor and librettist ()

Karl Haffner (pseudonym), real name Karl Schlechter, (8 November – 29 February ) was a German dramaturge.

Life and work

Born in Königsberg, Haffner attended the Collegium Fridericianum.

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 playwright at the Pest Theater with Feodor Grimm, after he had already made some dramatic attempts before.

Die fledermaus synopsis

In Pest he wrote tragedies 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 in Vienna strangely recognized Haffner's talent for the local posse in this work and engaged him for nine years for the Theater an der Wien as a theatre poet.

Haffner had to commit himself to the delivery of