Emanuel Schikaneder
German actor and singer · Actors · Lived 1751 to 1812 · aged 61
Emanuel Schikaneder was a German impresario, dramatist, actor, singer, and composer. He wrote the libretto of Mozart's opera Die Zauberflöte and was the builder of the Theater an der Wien. Peter Branscombe called him "one of the most talented theatre men of his era".
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Schikaneder's birthplace (Straubing). Click on image for translation.
Auditorium of Regensburg Theatre
Target for Bölzlschiessen, satirizing Schikaneder's notorious womanizing. Schikaneder is shown as saying "ich verspreche was ich keiner halte" (I promise what I cannot keep), while the young woman on the right is shown saying "Er wird schon kommen" (He will soon come to me).
Circa 1791; Schikaneder's troupe performing "O Anton du bist mein" from the Singspiel Die zween Anton.
Schikaneder circa 1784
Papageno Gate - the former main entrance of the Theater an der Wien (1801). Schikaneder as Papageno with his siblings in Das Labyrinth.
The Theater an der Wien as it appeared in 1815About this person
Aside from Mozart, he knew and worked with Salieri, Haydn and Beethoven.
