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Karl Meissl or Carl Meisl 

Carl Meisl (June 30, 1775 in Ljubljana - October 8, 1853 in Vienna), was an Austrian official and playwright, a contemporary of Johann Nestroy, Franz Xaver Tolds, Josef Alois Gleichs and Josef Kilian Schickhs.

After the Matura in Ljubljana Meisl went into civil service. He became a Fourier and progressed to k.k. Accountant and Field War Commissary.

The completion of his career was the appointment to the Accounts Council of the Marine Department of Pre-war accounting. As such, he retired in 1840.

Meisl was next to Adolf Bäuerle and Josef Alois Gleich one of the most important representatives of the Viennese folk comedy before Ferdinand Raimund. Meisl was also known for his parodies and travesties of serious dramas and operas.

For the solemn reopening of the Josephstädter Theater on October 3, 1822 Meisl wrote the Festival The Consecration of the house, to which Ludwig van Beethoven composed the incidental music.

Carl Meisl died in Vienna at the age of 78.                                          *

Works:

Othellerl, the Moor of Vienna or The Healed Jealousy (1806)

The Croats in Zara. Acting (1814)

The marriage through the goods lottery. Local comedy (1817)

The funny Fritz. Fairy Tale with Song (Posse) (1818)

The abduction of the princess Europa Mythological caricature in 2 acts. Vienna (1820)

The fairy from France or the torments of a Hagestolzen. Magic Game with Song - Vienna (1822)

The Black Woman (parody of the Opéra comique La dame blanche by Boieldieu for the Theater in der Josefstadt 1826)

Moisasura's Sorcery (1827, parody of F. Raimund's Moisasur). Reprint (text with commentary), ed. R. Reutner. Vienna: Lehner 1998. (Raimund-Almanach 1, 1998)                                           *

Literature:

Constantin von Wurzbach: Meisl, Karl. In: Biographical Encyclopedia of the Empire of Austria. 17. Part. Imperial Royal Court and State Printing, Vienna 1867.

Anton Schlossar: Meisl, Karl. In: General German Biography (ADB). Volume 52, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1906.

Otto Rommel: The Old Viennese Folk Comedy. Schroll, Vienna 1952.

B. Sting: Meisl Karl. In: Austrian Biographical Lexicon 1815-1950 (ÖBL). Volume 6, published by the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1975.

Jürgen Hein: Folk piece. From buffoon play to social drama of the present. Beck, Munich 1989.