Johannes Wildt

Johannes Wildt was born on March 10, 1782, in Lynge near Sorø and died on July 28, 1836, at Marienlyst near Odense. According to Dansk Biografisk Leksikon, he first worked in theater with a traveling company, appeared in Næstved in 1803–04 and at Odense Theater in the 1804–05 season, then entered the dramatic school in 1805 and became an actor at the Court Theatre in 1812.

His acting career seems to have been modest, and later reference works note that he was granted his dismissal in 1817. From 1819 to 1823 he held permission to stage plays in the Danish provinces, after which he settled in Copenhagen and focused more on writing.

Bibliographic records connect him with works including Farce i een Act, Lystspil og blandede Digte (1826), and En Nat i Ebbeltoft eller Eventyret paa Reisen (1827). That mix of theater writing and light verse makes him a small but interesting figure from Denmark’s theatrical and literary life of the period.