Thaddädl (a diminutive of the first name Thaddäus) is a kind of stock character or funny person of the Alt-Wiener Volkstheater towards the end of the 18th century, which was developed by Anton Hasenhut (1766-1841) following the Viennese Kasperle or the Pantalone of the Commedia dell'arte.[1]
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- ^ von Coeckelberghe-Dützele, Gerhard Robert Walter (1846). Curiositäten- und Memorabilien-Lexicon von Wien (in German). Vol. 2. Vienna. p. 7.