What is "kaspar"

Kaspar is a play written by Austrian playwright Peter Handke. It was published in 1967. It was Handke's first full-length drama and was hailed in Europe as the "play of the Decade". It depicts "the foundling Kaspar Hauser as a near-speechless innocent destroyed by society’s attempts to impose on him its language and its own rational values."

Kaspar is a given name and surname which may refer to:

Given name:

• Kaspar, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (1459-c. 1527)
• Kaspar Albrecht (1889–1970), Austrian architect and sculptor
• Kaspar Amort (1612-1675), German painter
• Caspar Aquila, sometimes spelled Kaspar, (1488-1560), German theologian and reformer
• Kaspar or Caspar Barlaeus (1584–1648), Dutch polymath, Renaissance humanist, theologian, poet and historian
• Kaspar Anton von Baroni-Cavalcabo (1682–1759), Italian painter
• Kaspar von Barth (1587–1658), German philologist and writer
• Kaspar Bausewein (1838-1903), German operatic bass
• Kaspar or Gáspár Bekes (1520-1579), Hungarian nobleman
• Kaspar Anton Karl van Beethoven (baptized 1774, died 1815), brother of composer Ludwig van Beethoven
• Kaspar Brandner (1916–1984), German World War II soldier awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross
• Kaspar Braun (1807-1877), German wood engraver
• Kaspar Brunner (died 1561) was a Swiss mechanic best known for his construction of the clockwork of the Zytglogge, Bern's medieval clock tower
• Gaspare Kaspar Capparoni (born 1964), Italian actor
• Kaspar Dalgas (born 1976), Danish former footballer
• Kaspar Eberhard (1523-1575), German Lutheran theologian and teacher
• Kaspar Ett (1788-1847), German composer and organist
• Kaspar Faber (1730–1784), German entrepreneur, founder of the stationery company Faber-Castell
• Kaspar Flütsch (born 1986), Swiss alpine snowboarder
• Kaspar Förster (baptized 1616, died 1673), German singer and composer
• Kaspar Füger (c. 1521-after 1592), German Lutheran pastor and hymn writer
• Kaspar Fürstenau (1772–1819), German flautist and composer
• Kaspar Hauser (1812?-1833), German youth who claimed to have grown up in total isolation in a darkened cell
• Kaspar or Caspar Hennenberger (1529–1600), German Lutheran pastor, historian and cartographer
• Kaspar Karsen (1810-1896), Dutch painter
• Kaspar Kokk (born 1982), Estonian cross-country skier
• Kaspar K. Kubli, Jr. (1869–1943), American politician
• Kaspar Kummer (1795–1870), German flautist, professor and composer
• Kaspar Oettli, Swiss orienteer who won a silver medal in the relay at the 1987 world championships
• Kaspar Röist (died 1527), Swiss papal official and commander of the papacy's Swiss Guard
• Kaspar Rostrup (born 1940), Danish film director
• Kaspar or Caspar Schwenckfeld (1489 or 1490–1561), German theologian, writer and preacher
• Kaspar Gottfried Schweizer (1816-1873), Swiss astronomer
• Kaspar Maria von Sternberg (1761-1838), Bohemian theologian, mineralogist, geognost, entomologist and botanist
• Kaspar von Stieler (1632–1707), soldier-poet and linguist
• Kaspar or Kasper Straube, German 15th century printer
• Kaspar Taimsoo (born 1987), Estonian rower
• Kaspar Ursinus Velius (c. 1493–1539), German humanist scholar, poet and historian
• Kaspar Villiger (born 1941), Swiss businessman and politician
• Kaspar Zehnder (born 1970), Swiss conductor and flautist
• Kaspar von Zumbusch (1830-1915), German sculptor

Surname:

• Danny Kaspar (born 1954), American college basketball head coach
• Felix Kaspar (1915-2003), Austrian figure skater and two-time world champion
• Mizzi Kaspar (1864-1907), mistress of Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria
• Kašpar, a list of people with the Czech surname