Friedrich Hopp


Friedrich Ernst Hopp was an Austrian actor and writer.

Life

Born in Brünn, Hopp was the son of a factory worker. At first he started a commercial career, worked as a traveling salesman and accountant and was active as a layman actor. From 1815 he was engaged at various theaters in Brünn, Graz, Bratislava and Baden bei Wien until he got a position at the Vienna Theater in der Josefstadt in 1822. From 1825 he worked parallel to this at the Theater an der Wien. In Vienna he experienced the height of his acting career and became a darling of the public. In 1833 he played the journeyman carpenter Leim in the world premiere of Johann Nestroy's Posse mit Gesang .
Standing in Nestroy's shadow and becoming more and more unsuccessful, Hopp left the Theater in der Josefstadt in 1846 and played at provincial theaters. From 1847 to 1849 he worked at the Carltheater, which he left after a dispute with the director Carl Carl. Only after the death of the latter did he return to Vienna, where he ended his acting career due to illness in 1862 at the.
Hopp also wrote some farces himself. His first play was written in 1829. He was regarded as a folk poet, who was oriented to the taste of the common people, and as a rival of Karl Haffner and Friedrich Kaiser. His most important works are the plays premiered in 1840
Doktor Fausts Hauskäppchen and Der Pelzpalatin und der Kachelofen. Nestroy played the leading role in Hopp's adaptation of the Der dreißigjährige ABC-Schütz'' which no longer exists today.
Hopp died in Vienna at age 79. His son Julius was a composer and Kapellmeister at the Theater an der Wien.

Work