Hanns von Gumppenberg

Hanns Theodor Wilhelm Freiherr von Gumppenberg (4 December 1866 – 29 March 1928) was a German poet, translator, cabaret artist and theatre critic.

Both the father and already the grandfather Wilhelm von Gumppenberg [de] (Bavarian member of parliament, landowner and major)[1] were active in literature.

The father wrote mostly dialectal drama and poetry, the grandfather belletristic works and witty Punch and Judy plays.

From 1902 onwards, Gumppenberg also regularly worked as a translator of foreign poetry, for example Swedish poems by Bellman, Fröding and Karlfeldt.

In 1901, under the pseudonym Jodok, he became a co-founder of the Munich cabaret Die Elf Scharfrichter [de] as a writer of poetry and drama parodies.