Ernst Welisch

Ernst Welisch
Ernst Welisch (left) and Rudolf Schanzer (right) in Schanzer's villa at Bad Ischl, 1925
Born
Ernst Friedrich Wilhelm Welisch

(1875-02-27)27 February 1875
Vienna, Austria
Died26 March 1941(1941-03-26) (aged 66)
Vienna, Austria
Occupations

Ernst Welisch (27 February 1875 – 26 March 1941) was an Austrian playwright and theatre director. He is primarily known for the numerous operetta librettos that he wrote for composers such as Leo Fall, Jean Gilbert, Emmerich Kálmán, and Ralph Benatzky. Welisch was born in Vienna, but spent most of his career in Berlin. In the 1930s he returned to Vienna where he died shortly before the premiere of his last work, Venedig in Wien.[1]

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