Friedrich Gustav Triesch

Friedrich Gustav Triesch (16 June 1845 – 24 May 1907) was an Austrian dramatist.

Biography Friedrich Gustav Triesch was born into a Jewish family in Vienna in 1845, where his father worked as a goldsmith. He began to write plays as a child, which he performed at a puppet theatre.

Triesch studied sculpture at the Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien before shifting his focus to literature. Financial constraints forced him into a career in commerce for a period, but the success of his second play, the farce Lachende Erben (1867), allowed him to pursue playwriting full-time.

In 1868, Triesch received honorable mention for his four-act comedy Im XIX. Jahrhundert in the Hofburgtheater's prize competition, which received over a thousand submissions. In 1877, two of his plays, Höhere Gesichtspunkte and Die Wochenchronik, were similarly honoured. Triesch's comedy Neue Verträg won the first prize at the Munich Hoftheater in 1879, and his drama Ottilie took first prize in a competition organized by the Litterarisches Vermittlungsbureau of Hamburg in 1892.

Work Triesch authored numerous poems and short stories, as well as the following plays:

Adapted from a Dingelstedt novella.