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Prehauser, Gottfried
© Copyright Gottfried Prehauser, engraving 18th century Prehauser, Gottfried, b. Vienna, Oct. 8, 1699, d. Vienna, Jan. 29, 1769, actor and writer. After his debut with a travelling company and performances at the Vienna Marionette Theatre was a travelling comedian in South Germany and Austria, 1720 in Salzburg known as the Salzburg Buffoon Hanswurst; 1725 came to the Kärntnertortheater in Vienna, where he succeeded J. A. Stranitzky as the "New Viennese Buffoon"; and after his death took P. over the management of the "German Comedians" ("Teutschen Comödianten"). Outstanding interpreter of impromptu plays, but also of "normal" plays (G. E. Lessing), wrote local farces and burlesques and satirical, humourous "New Year's Wishes" ("Neujahrswünsche"). Literature: G. Gugitz, Der weiland Kasperl, 1920; O. Rommel, Die Altwiener Volkskomödie, 1952; M. Baar-de Zwaan, G. P. und seine Zeit, doctoral thesis, Vienna 1967.
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