Hensler was born in
Vaihingen an der Enz in 1759,
Karl von Marinelli, manager of the
Theater in der Leopoldstadt in Vienna, staged his play
Der Soldat von Cherson, which opened on 1 May 1785. After its success, Hensler wrote many more plays for this theatre; his plays include
Das Donauweibchen,
Die Nymphe der Donau and
Die Teufelsmühle am Wienerberg. When Marinelli died in 1803, Hensler leased the Leopoldstadt Theatre and managed it until 1813. He took over the
Theater an der Wien in Vienna in 1817, and the following year theatres in Pressburg (present-day
Bratislava) and Baden. In Vienna he rebuilt the
Theater in der Josefstadt; it opened in 1822 with
Beethoven's overture written for the occasion,
The Consecration of the House. Hensler died in Vienna in 1825. His daughter Josepha von Scheidlin took over the management of the Josefstadt Theatre. ==References==