Joseph Schreyvogel
Schreyvogel, Joseph (Vienna, 1768-1832, Vienna), left his native city in 1794, possibly because of alleged French Revolutionary sympathies, and lived for two years in Jena, where he met Schiller. From 1802 to 1804 he was secretary to the Burgtheater in Vienna. After a short period of journalistic activity with the Sonntagsblatt oder Unterhaltungen des Thomas West (a pseudonym which he afterwards changed to Karl August West), he was reappointed to the Burgtheater, this time as artistic director (Dramaturg), a post he held from 1815 to 1832. He translated and produced Calderón's La vida es sueño (Das Leben ein Traum, 1820) and El médico de su honra (Don Gutierre, 1818), and Moreto's El desdén con el desdén (Donna Diana, 1819).
Schreyvogel, who emphasized the classical tradition in repertoire and production, influenced Grillparzer, whose Die Ahnfrau he helped to revise and several of whose plays he produced in the Burgtheater. His writings were published as Gesammelte Schriften von Thomas und Karl August West (4 vols.) in 1829. Schreyvogel died of cholera. Posthumous publications include his diaries,
