Johann Nepomuk Eduard Ambrosius Nestroy (born December 7, 1801 at Vienna, Austria; died May 25, 1862 at Graz, Austria) was an opera singer, actor and, primarily, a playwright. December 7 is the 341st day (342nd on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1801 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... Vienna (German: Wien [viːn]) is the capital of Austria, and also one of Austrias nine federal states (Bundesland Wien). ... May 25 is the 145th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (146th in leap years). ... 1862 - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ... Graz [graːts] (Slovenian: Gradec), with a population of 305,000 (council census 2000) is the second-largest city in Austria and the capital of the province of Styria (Steiermark in German). ... This article is about opera as an art form. ... For legal meaning of acting, see Acting (law). ... A playwright is an author of plays for performance in the theater. ...

After a career as an opera singer in several European cities from 1822 to 1831, Nestroy returned to his native Vienna and took up writing and acting. This combination of careers has caused Nestroy to be called the "Austrian Shakespeare". World map showing location of Europe A satellite composite image of Europe Europe is geologically and geographically a peninsula, forming the westernmost part of Eurasia. ... 1822 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1831 was a common year starting on Saturday (see link for calendar). ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ...

Nestroy's career as a playwright was an immediate success: his 1833 play Lumpacivagabundus was a major hit. He soon become a leading figure in Austrian culture and society. Together with Ferdinand Raimund, Nestroy was a forerunner of Viennese popular theater (called, in German, Wiener Volkstheater). 1833 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Ferdinand Raimund (born June 1, 1790, died September 5, 1836) was an Austrian actor and dramatist. ...

Whereas Raimund concentrated on romantic and magical fantasies, Nestroy used comedy for parody and criticism. Working at the time of conservative minister Clemens Metternich, he had to carefully draft his plays to skirt the strict censorship in place. His interest in word play was legendary, and his characters often mixed Viennese language with less-than-successful attempts at more "educated" speech. Music held an important role in his work, with songs elaborating the theme or helping on with the plot. Comedy is the use of humour in the performing arts. ... In contemporary usage, parody is a form of satire that imitates another work of art in order to ridicule it. ... A critic (derived from the ancient Greek word krites meaning a judge) is a person who offers a value judgement or an interpretation. ... Klemens Wenzel von Metternich Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar Fürst von Metternich-Winneberg-Beilstein (May 15, 1773 – June 11, 1858) (sometimes rendered in English as Prince Klemens Metternich) was an Austrian politician and statesman and perhaps the most important diplomat of his era. ... Censorship is the systematic use of group power to broadly control freedom of speech and expression, largely in regard to secretive matters. ... The Viennese language is an East Central Austro-Bavarian dialect spoken mostly in the Austrian capital of Vienna. ... Music is an art, entertainment, or other human activity which involves organized sound, though definitions may vary. ...

Nestroy wrote over eighty comic plays in the 1840s and 1850s. Among the most important were the burlesque comedies Lumpacivagabundus, Liebesgeschichten und Heiratssachen, Der Talisman, Einen Jux will er sich machen and Der Zerrissene, all of which were marked by social criticism and biting satire. Events and Trends First signing of the Treaty of Waitangi (Te Tiriti o Waitangi) on February 6, 1840 at Waitangi New Zealand. ... Events and Trends Crimean war (1854 - 1856) fought between Imperial Russia and an alliance consisting of the United Kingdom, the Second French Empire, the Kingdom of Sardinia and the Ottoman Empire. ...

About half of Nestroy's works have been revived for the modern German-speaking audience and many are part and parcel of today's Viennese repertoire. However, few have ever been translated into English. Only one, Einen Jux will er sich machen, has become well known to English-speaking theatregoers. Interestingly, it has become a classic more than once. It was first adapted as Thornton Wilder's The Matchmaker (which later became the musical Hello, Dolly!) and later achieved success as the comic masterpiece On The Razzle, which was translated by Stephen Plaice and adapted by Tom Stoppard. Translation is an activity comprising the interpretation of the meaning of a text in one language—the called the source text—and the production of a new, equivalent text in another language—called the target text, or the translation. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Thornton Wilder (April 17, 1897 - December 7, 1975) was an American writer. ... Musical theater (or theatre) is a form of theatre combining music, songs, dance, and spoken dialogue. ... Hello, Dolly! is a Broadway musical with a book by Michael Stewart and a score by Jerry Herman. ... Sir Tom Stoppard OM is a British playwright, famous for plays such as The Real Thing and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, and for the screenplay for Shakespeare in Love. ...

Nestroy has a square—Nestroyplatz—named after him in Vienna, as well as a station on Line 1 of the Vienna U-Bahn, which opened in 1979. model U (WVB) model T (BWS) The Vienna U-Bahn is a rapid transit (Metro) system consisting of 5 lines mostly running underground, also that the U6 partly uses the track of the old Vienna Stadtbahn, and is therefore mostly overground. ... 1979 is a common year starting on Monday. ...

External links

• Internationales Nestroy Zentrum (http://www.nestroy.at/eingang.html) (in German)
• Nestroy information from aeiou.at (http://www.aeiou.at/aeiou.encyclop.n/n299319.htm) (in German)