Andreas Hartauer

Austrian glass painter and composer of the song "Tief drin im Böhmerwald" (b. November 28, 1839 Stachauer Hütte, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary; d. January 18, 1915 St. Pölten, Lower Austria). Hartauer grew up in Goldbrunn, a small glass-making village in Bohemia, apprenticed as a glass maker in Bohemia, and finally settled in St. Pölten in Lower Austria, where he ran a successful glass painting business with associated glass and ceramic store. Yearning for his native Bohemian Forest, he wrote "Tief drin im Böhmerwald" (Deep inside the Bohemian Forest), which became particularly well-known after it was quoted in Maximilian Schmidt's novel "Am goldenen Steig" (1894). Over time, the original melody was replaced by a more danceable tune originally written by Jakob Eduard Schmölzer for the Styrian target shooter's song "Dort ist die Heimat mein" (There is my home).