Karl Friedrich Hensler

Karl Friedrich Hensler (1 February 1759 – 24 November 1825)[1] was a dramatist and theatre manager in Vienna.

Hensler was born in Vaihingen an der Enz in 1759,[1] son of a ducal physician of Württemberg, and studied at the University of Göttingen.

[2][3][4] When Marinelli died in 1803, Hensler leased the Leopoldstadt Theatre and managed it until 1813.

He took over the Theater an der Wien in Vienna in 1817, and the following year theatres in Pressburg (present-day Bratislava) and Baden.

In Vienna he rebuilt the Theater in der Josefstadt; it opened in 1822 with Beethoven's overture written for the occasion, The Consecration of the House.