Carl Karlweis

[2] He was originally an employee of the Imperial Royal Privileged Austrian State Railway Company in Graz.

He was already active as a writer by 1876, when he was works secretary for the Graz-Köflacher Train and Bus Service [de].

Together with Hermann Bahr and Vinzenz Chiavacci [de], he wrote comedies and folk plays, which were performed at the Volkstheater.

In 1896, his play Der kleine Mann (The Little Man) was awarded the Raimund-Preis [de] for playwrights; named in honor of the actor and dramatist, Ferdinand Raimund.

What would turn out to be his last play, The New Simson, was written in 1901 and presented at the Volkstheater, with Franz Tewele [de] and Helene Odilon in the lead roles.