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strove to banish the buffoon from the German-speaking stage, in order to improve the quality of German comedy and raise its social status, holding a public "banishing" of Hanswurst. This met with resistance, especially in Vienna. However, the staged banishment has generally been regarded as an
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of German-speaking impromptu comedy. He is "a half doltish, half cunning, partly stupid, partly knowing, enterprising and cowardly, self indulgent and merry fellow, who, in accordance with circumstances, accentuated one or other of these characteristics."
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forbade improvised comedy and burlesque-like buffoon games. Due to authoritarian fear of political agitation, arts were directed towards fixed literary form theater (the "regular theater") and silent, music-accompanied pantomime. In 1775, a 26-year-old
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replaced him for several decades. At the instigation of Joseph of Sonnenfels after the French Revolution (Memorandum for the future of theater censorship guidelines, 1790) the
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saw this as the beginning of the so-called Viennese popular theater. Stranitzky's Hanswurst wore the garb of a peasant from
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Through the 16th and 17th centuries, he was a buffoon character in rural carnival theaters and touring companies.
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brought back the part of Hanswurst. For the Viennese Musical and Theatrical Exhibition of 1892, the actor
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emblematic moment in German theater history for the transition from popular, improvised, so-called
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Hanswurst and Herr Ich: Subjection and Abjection in Enlightenment Censorship of the Comic Figure
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Hanswurst and Herr Ich: Subjection and Abjection in Enlightenment Censorship of the Comic Figure
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developed and popularized the role of Hanswurst. The theater historian
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Johann Christoph Gottsched (1700–1766): harbinger of German classicism
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In the "Hanswurst dispute" of the 1730s the scholar
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Martin Luther: an introduction to his life and work
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German
stock character
Middle Low German
Sebastian Brant
Ship of Fools
Martin Luther
Wider Hans Worst
Duke Henry of Brunswick
Joseph Anton Stranitzky
Otto Rommel
Salzburg
Johann Christoph Gottsched
Friederike Caroline Neuber
Stegreiftheater
Franz Schuch
Punch
Staberl
Emperor Joseph II
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Ludwig Tieck
Ludwig Gottsleben
The Comedians
GW Pabst
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
The Home of the Puppet Play
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"Joseph Anton Stranitzky"
Das Wiener Volksstück
the original

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