page_title: König Ottokars Glück und Ende
section_title: Characters
hierarchical_section_title: König Ottokars Glück und Ende / Characters
caption_attribution_description: Max Devrient (1857-1929) Deutsch: Der aus Deutschland stammende Theaterschauspieler Max Devrient als "Zawisch" in Grillparzers "König Ottokars Glück und Ende" am Wiener Burgtheater. English: Theatre actor Max Devrient as "Zawisch" at the Burgtheater in Vienna
context_page_description: König Ottokars Glück und Ende is a tragedy in five acts written by Franz Grillparzer in 1823. Based on the historical events surrounding the life of Ottokar II of Bohemia, the play deals with the fall of the king from the height of his powers to his death, having lost most of his supporters and lands, largely through his own actions.
  Grillparzer had originally wanted to write a tragedy about Napoleon, however, fearing censorship from Austrian authorities, instead used King Ottokar II of Bohemia as the central figure, as there were a number of parallels in personality traits and circumstances.
  The play was completed in 1823, but publication was delayed by censorship issues, notably the "unfortunate allusion to Napoleon's second marriage to Marie-Louise of Austria, and its unfavourable portrayal of Bohemia". The wife of Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor, Caroline Augusta of Bavaria read the play and urged her husband to allow it to be publicly performed, which took place for the first time on February 19, 1825 in Vienna's Burgtheater.
  The play's nationalistic themes in particular were criticised when first released, and remain controversial today.
context_section_description: Primislaus Ottokar, King of Bohemia
  Margarethe von Österreich, widow of Heinrich von Hohenstaufen, his wife
  Benesch von Diedicz, Milota und Zawisch, the Rosenbergs
  Berta, daughter of Benesch
  Braun von Olmütz, Chancellor to the King
  Bela, King of Hungary
  Kunigunde von Massovien, his granddaughter
  Rudolf von Habsburg
  Albrecht und Rudolf, his sons
  Friedrich Zollern, Burggraf of Nuremberg
  Heinrich von Lichtenstein and Berthold Schenk von Emerberg, Austrian knights
  Old Merenberg, Friedrich Pettauer and Seyfried Merenberg, Styrian knights
  Herbott von Füllenstein
  Ortolf von Windischgrätz
  Ottokar von Hornek
  Merenberg's wife
  Paltram Vatzo, Mayor of Vienna
  Mayor of Prague
  A royal herald
  Der Küster von Götzendorf
  Chancellor of the Archbishop of Mainz
  Elisabeth, Margarete's chambermaid
  Kunigunde's chambermaid
  Members of the German electoral committee
  Bohemian, Austrian, Styrian, Carinthian nobility and warriors
caption: Max Devrient as Zawisch in the Burgtheater in Vienna 1891.
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