At first he started a commercial career, worked as a traveling salesman and accountant and was active as a layman actor.
In 1833 he played the journeyman carpenter Leim in the world premiere of Johann Nestroy's Posse mit Gesang Der böse Geist Lumpazivagabundus [de].
[1] Only after the death of the latter did he return to Vienna, where he ended his acting career due to illness in 1862 at the Theater am Franz-Josefs-Kai [de].
[1] He was regarded as a folk poet, who was oriented to the taste of the common people, and as a rival of Karl Haffner and Friedrich Kaiser.
[4][5] Nestroy played the leading role in Hopp's adaptation of the Der dreißigjährige ABC-Schütz[6] which no longer exists today.