Bela Jenbach

Bela Jenbach, real name Béla Jacobowicz (1 April 1871 in Miskolc, Kingdom of Hungary – 21 January 1943 in Vienna) was an Austrian actor and operetta librettist of Hungarian origin.

Jenbach died in the Auersperg Sanatorium[1] in Vienna and was buried in the Matzleinsdorf Protestant Cemetery.

He invested his earnings in speech lessons and proved to be an extremely talented student, as he managed to lose his accent in a very short time.

Depressed about the low earnings as a Burgtheater actor he came via the "Operettenbörse" in Café Sperl to write libretti.

His wife, the actress Anna Brandstätter, survived him by only eight days; she died of breast cancer on 29 January 1943.