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RAIMUND, FERDINAND (1990-1836)

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RAIMUND, See also:FERDINAND (1990-1836) , See also:Austrian actor and dramatist, was See also:born on the 1st of See also:June 1790, in See also:Vienna. In 181'4 he acted at the Josefstadter Theater, and in 1817 at the Leopoldstadter Theater. In 1823 he produced his first See also:play, Der Barometermacher auf der Zauberinsel, which was followed by Der Diamant See also:des Geisterkonigs (1824) and the still popular See also:Bauer als Milliondr. The last-mentioned play, which appeared in 1826, Der Alpenkonig and der Menschenfeind (1828) and Der Verschwender (1833) are Raimund's masterpieces. He committed See also:suicide on the 5th of See also:September 1836, owing to the fear that he had been bitten by a mad See also:dog. Raimund was a See also:master of the Viennese Posse or See also:farce; his See also:rich See also:humour is seen to best See also:advantage in his realistic portraits of his See also:fellow-citizens. Raimund's Sdmtliche Werke (with See also:biography by J. N. Vogl) appeared in 4 vols. (1837); they have been also edited by K. Glossy and A. Sauer (4 vols., 1881; 2nd ed., 1891), and a selection by E.

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Castle (1903). See E. See also:Schmidt in Charakteristiken, vol. i. (1886); A. See also:Farinelli, See also:Grillparzer and Raimund (1897) ; L. A. See also:Frankl, Zur Biographic F. Raimondo (1884); and especially A. Sauer's See also:article in the Allgem. Deutsche Biographic.

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