Editing Ludwig Anzengruber (section)

== Origins==
The Anzengruber line originated in the district of [[Ried im Innkreis]] in [[Upper Austria]].  Ludwig's grandfather, Jakob Anzengruber, was a farm-worker on the Obermayr estate at Weng near [[Hofkirchen an der Trattnach]].  His father, Johann Anzengruber, left the family home at an early age and moved to Vienna, where he found work as a bookkeeper in the treasury of the Austrian crown lands.  In 1838 he married Maria Herbich, the daughter of a petit bourgeois pharmacist.  It is not surprising that the social standing of his parents – his father, from peasant stock, and his mother, a petty bourgeois – regularly played an important role in Ludwig Anzengruber's later works.

Ludwig's greatest influence in becoming a dramatist was his father who himself had been a secret poet in the style of [[Friedrich Schiller]], but without success. Only one of his plays, on the subject of [[Berthold Schwarz]], was produced, and probably only because of the spectacular explosion at the end; his other works gathered dust in the drawer of his desk.