Arthur Schnitzler (1862–1931)
Author of Dream Story
About the Author
Arthur Schnitzler, Viennese playwright, novelist, short story writer, and physician, was a sophisticated writer much in vogue in his time. He chose themes of an erotic, romantic, or social nature, expressed with clarity, irony, and subtle wit. Reigen, a series of ten dialogues linking people of show more various social classes through their physical desire for one another, has been filmed many times as La Ronde. As a Jew, Schnitzler was sensitive to the problems of anti-Semitism, which he explored in the play Professor Bernhardi (1913), seen in New York in a performance by the Vienna Burgtheater in 1968. Henry Hatfield calls Schnitzler "second only to Hofmannsthal among the Austrian writers of his generation and one of the most underrated of German authors... . He combined the naturalist's devotion to fact with the impressionist's interest in nuance; in other words, he told the truth" (Modern German Literature). In his most famous story, Lieutenant Gustl (1901), Schnitzler employs the stream-of-consciousness technique in an exposition of the follies and gradual disintegration of society in fin de siecle Vienna. Schnitzler has also been linked with Freud (see Vols. 3 and 5) and is credited with consciously introducing elements of modern psychology into his works. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by Arthur Schnitzler
Traumnovelle und andere Erzählungen. Das erzählerische Werk Band 6 Gesammelte Werke in Einzelausgaben (1998) 9 copies
Traumnovelle / Die Braut. — Author — 7 copies
Professor Bernhardi and Other Plays (Studies in Austrian Literature, Culture, and Thought Translation Series) (1993) 4 copies
Gespräch in der Kaffeehausecke 4 copies
The Death of a Bachelor 4 copies
Die dramatischen Werke 3 copies
Die erzählenden Schriften 3 copies
Paracelsus and Other One-Act Plays (Studies in Austrian Literature, Culture, and Thought Translation Series) (1995) 3 copies
Ore vive: quattro atti unici 3 copies
El retorno de Casanova 3 copies
Sammeln als Wissen: Das Sammeln und seine wissenschaftsgeschichtliche Bedeutung (Wissenschaftsgeschichte) (2001) 3 copies
I morti tacciono e altri racconti 3 copies
Fräulein Else. Textausgabe mit Kommentar und Materialien: Reclam XL - Text und Kontext (2017) 3 copies
In de ban van het noodlot 3 copies
Demasqué 2 copies
RELAÇÕES E SOLIDÃO 2 copies
Sterben : Erzählungen ; 1880 - 1892 2 copies
Liebelei und andere Bühnenwerke 2 copies
Der Schlüssel zu Rebecca. - Denuziere, Maurice: Ein Hund für einen Sommer. - Denker, Henry: Der… (1982) 2 copies
Die Weissagung 2 copies
En busca de horizontes/ In Search of Horizons (Letras universales/ Universal Letters) (Spanish Edition) (2009) 2 copies
Gesammelte Werke in zwei Abteilungen. Abt. 1. Die erzählenden Schriften in 4 Bdn; Bd. 1. Novellen 2 copies
Gesammelte Werke in zwei Abteilungen. Abt. 1. Die erzählenden Schriften in 4 Bdn; Bd. 2. Novellen 2 copies
Masken und Wunder. Novellen 2 copies
Φυγή στο σκοτάδι 2 copies
Anime crepuscolari 2 copies
Stories and Plays 2 copies
ENDERR 2 copies
Gesammelte Werke in zwei Abteilungen. Abt. 1. Die erzählenden Schriften; Bd. 3 Der Weg ins Freie 2 copies
Commediola 2 copies
Zwischenspiel 2 copies
Flirt 2 copies
Rüya Roman 2 copies
The Final Plays (Studies in Austrian Literature, Culture, and Thought. Translation Series) (1996) 2 copies
I morti tacciono (racconti) 2 copies
The Fate Of The Baron 2 copies
The Correspondence of Arthur Schnitzler and Raoul Auernheimer with Raoul Auernheimer's Aphorisms (2020) 1 copy
Über Krieg und Frieden 1 copy
Die Theaterstücke 1 copy
Der Ruf des Lebens 1 copy
The Letters of Arthur Schnitzler to Hermann Bahr Edited, annotated, and with an Introduction (2020) 1 copy
l'etrangere 1 copy
Erzahlende Schriften von Arthur Schnitzler in drei Banden; 3 volumes: Erster Band: Novellen, Zweiter Band: Novellen, &… (1918) 1 copy
1960 1 copy
Aphorismen und Betrachtungen, Band 1: Buch der Sprüche und Bedenken: Aphorismen und Fragmente 1 copy
Werke in historisch-kritischen Ausgaben. Der grüne Kakadu ; Historisch-kritische Ausgabe (2020) 1 copy
Traumnovelle zwei Novellen 1 copy
Schnitzler Arthur 1 copy
masques et prodiges 1 copy
Kurzgeschichten 1 copy
Contos 1 copy
Familie 1 copy
Traumnovelle Die Braut 1 copy
La senyoreta Elsa 1 copy
Траумновелле 1 copy
Minne-spel 1 copy
Spiel im Morgengrauen und acht andere Erzählungen. Auswahl und Einleitung von H. Weigel. Reproduktionen nach… (1961) 1 copy
El Anatol, Kvin Unuaktaĵoj 1 copy
Adele Sandrock und Arthur Schnitzler Geschichte e. Liebe in Briefen, Bildern u. Dokumenten. Fischer; 5609 (1983) 1 copy
Put u otvoreno 1 copy
Dämmerseelen: Novellen 1 copy
Sterben 1 copy
Unenäonovell 1 copy
Die Hörspiel-Edition: Liebelei/ Spiel im Morgengrauen/ Berta Garlan/ Der Reigen/ Fräulen Else (2011) 1 copy
Silvestarska noć 1 copy
Die Erzählenden Schriften. Erster Band (von 2) [= Arthur Schnitzler, Gesammelte Werke] (1981) 1 copy
Commedie dell'estraneità e della seduzione. Terra sconosciuta. Professor Bernhardi. Commedia della seduzione (2001) 1 copy
Liebelei, Leutnant Gustl 1 copy
Lekturehilfen Arthur Schnitzler "Leutnant Gustl" und "Die Traumnovelle". Ausfuhrliche Inhaltsangabe und Interpretation (2009) 1 copy
Arthur Schnitzler: Traumnovelle, Der junge Medardus, Der Weg ins Freie, Spiel im Morgengrauen, Das weite Land (German… (2010) 1 copy
Erzählungen : Band 1 1 copy
Spreuken en gedachten 1 copy
Schnitzler zum Vergnügen 1 copy
Arthur Schnitzler. Ausgewählte Werke in acht Bänden: Der einsame Weg: Zeitstücke 1891-1908 (2001) 1 copy
Girotondo e altre commedie 1 copy
Der Empfindsame 1 copy
Aphorismen und Betrachtungen 1 copy
La signorina Elsa: romanzo 1 copy
Der Schleier der Beatrice 1 copy
Gesammelte Schriften 1 copy
Opere 1 copy
El padrino y otros cuentos 1 copy
Associated Works
The Dedalus/Ariadne Book of Austrian Fantasy: The Meyrink Years 1890-1930 (1992) — Contributor — 25 copies
Ten German Novellas — Contributor — 4 copies
50 seltsame Geschichten — Contributor — 1 copy
Modern German Short Stories (No. 456 of the World Classics) — Contributor — 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Other names
- Ŝniclo, Arturo
- Birthdate
- 1862-05-15
- Date of death
- 1931-10-21
- Burial location
- Zentralfriedhof, Vienna, Austria
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Austria
- Birthplace
- Vienna, Austrian Empire
- Place of death
- Vienna, Austria
- Cause of death
- brain hemorrhage
- Places of residence
- Vienna, Austria
- Education
- University of Vienna (MD|1885)
- Occupations
- physician
dramatist
novelist
short story writer
diarist
autobiographer - Relationships
- von Hofmannsthal, Hugo (friend)
Beer-Hofmann, Richard (friend)
Schnitzler, Michael (grandson)
Auernheimer, Raoul (friend, correspondent)
Zweig, Stefan (friend, correspondent)
Mann, Thomas (friend, correspondent) (show all 9)
Schnitzler, Heinrich (son)
Feldmann, Else (correspondent)
Zuckerkandl, Bertha (friend) - Organizations
- Young Vienna
- Awards and honors
- Bauernfeld-Preis (1899)
- Short biography
- Arthur Schnitzler was born to a Jewish family in Vienna, Austria. His parents were Luise (Markbreiter) and Johann Schnitzler, an internationally renowned physician. He had a brother, Julius and a sister, Gisela. He studied medicine at the University of Vienna from 1879 and received his medical degree in 1885. He practiced medicine for many years, especially psychiatry, but he considered writing his primary career. He first won literary recognition in 1891 with a series of one-act plays. His work Reigen (Round Dance, 1897), a cycle of 10 dramatic dialogues, inspired numerous stage and screen adaptations, including The Merry-Go-Round (Der Reigen, 1920); Circle of Love (1964); and the famous La Ronde (1950). Although successful, Reigen was highly controversial for its frank depiction of sexuality, and was banned in several cities. As a member of the avant-garde group Young Vienna (Jung-Wien), Schnitzler experimented with format as well as social conventions. His satirical 1901 novella Leutnant Gustl (English translation: None but the Brave), was the first European masterpiece written as a stream-of-consciousness interior monologue. It also incurred much anti-Semitic comment, and Schnitzler was dismissed from the regiment where he had done military medical service. His prolific list of other works included more plays, novels, and collections of short stories. In 1903, he married Olga Gussmann, alias Dina Marius, an aspiring actress and singer 20 years his junior with whom he had two children; the couple divorced in 1921. Schnitzler kept a diary from the age of 17 until two days before his death. It was published posthumously, along with collections of his letters and his autobiography, Jugend in Wien (My Youth in Vienna, 1968). Schnitzler's works were banned by the Nazis in Austria and Germany and burned along with those of other Jews, including Einstein, Marx, Kafka, and Freud. The majority of his papers, which included unpublished texts, was saved from the Nazis in 1938 by Eric A. Blackall, a British citizen living in Vienna at the time. They were later donated to the Cambridge University Library. Schnitzler's son Heinrich, a theater director, tried to get the documents back but did not succeed.
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