Ignaz Schnitzer

In 1869 he founded together with Zsigmond Bródy (1840-1906)[1] the daily newspaper Neues Pester Journal, which he headed as editor-in-chief for a decade.

Besides he worked on Hungarian plays for German theatres; in 1879 he translated Ede Zsigligeti's Rauschgold for the Viennese Burgtheater and Mór Jókais Held Pálffy for the Carltheater.

After selling his share in the Neue Pester Journal he moved back to Vienna in 1881 and worked mainly as a librettist and translator.

His friendship with Johann Strauss II led him to the libretto of his Zigeunerbaron and the cultural-historical and partly biographical work Bunte Geschichten aus der Johann-Strauß-Zeit.

It was executed by the history painter Philipp Fleischer, and exhibited at the Ausstellungsstraße 143 in a circular building specially designed for this purpose by Oskar Marmorek.