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Reigen. Zehn Dialoge / Liebelei. Schauspiel in drei Akten
Sechzig Jahre lang war Arthur Schnitzler Reigen nicht auf der Bühne zu sehen. Nach zwei skandalbegleiteten Aufführungen in Berlin (1920) und Wien (1921) hatte Schnitzler jede weitere Aufführung des Reigen verboten. Nachdem mit dem 31. 12. 19821 - 50 Jahre nach dem Tod des Autors . die Urheberschutzfrist in den an das deutschsprachige Gebiet angrenzenden Ländern ablief, entschloß sich Heinrich Schnitzler, Sohn und Nachlaßverwalter Arthur Schnitzlers, die Aufführungssperre für Länder mit längerer Urheberschutzfrist, wie Deutschland und Österreich, aufzuheben. Seit dem 1. 1. 1982 gibt es nun wieder so etwas wie eine fortgesetzte Aufführungsgeschichte des Reigen. Das Stück, zeigt sich, hat auch nach sechzig Jahren nichts von seiner Aktualität eingebüßt.
176 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1989
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Arthur Schnitzler
1,003 books540 followersArthur Schnitzler was an Austrian author and dramatist.
The son of a prominent Hungarian-Jewish laryngologist Johann Schnitzler and Luise Markbreiter (a daughter of the Viennese doctor Philipp Markbreiter), was born in Vienna in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and began studying medicine at the local university in 1879. He received his doctorate of medicine in 1885 and worked at the Vienna's General Hospital, but ultimately abandoned medicine in favour of writing.
His works were often controversial, both for their frank description of sexuality (Sigmund Freud, in a letter to Schnitzler, confessed "I have gained the impression that you have learned through intuition — though actually as a result of sensitive introspection — everything that I have had to unearth by laborious work on other persons")[1] and for their strong stand against anti-Semitism, represented by works such as his play Professor Bernhardi and the novel Der Weg ins Freie. However, though Schnitzler was himself Jewish, Professor Bernhardi and Fräulein Else are among the few clearly-identified Jewish protagonists in his work.
Schnitzler was branded as a pornographer after the release of his play Reigen, in which ten pairs of characters are shown before and after the sexual act, leading and ending with a prostitute. The furore after this play was couched in the strongest anti-semitic terms;[2] his works would later be cited as "Jewish filth" by Adolf Hitler. Reigen was made into a French language film in 1950 by the German-born director Max Ophüls as La Ronde. The film achieved considerable success in the English-speaking world, with the result that Schnitzler's play is better known there under Ophüls' French title.
In the novella, Fräulein Else (1924), Schnitzler may be rebutting a contentious critique of the Jewish character by Otto Weininger (1903) by positioning the sexuality of the young female Jewish protagonist.[3] The story, a first-person stream of consciousness narrative by a young aristocratic woman, reveals a moral dilemma that ends in tragedy.
In response to an interviewer who asked Schnitzler what he thought about the critical view that his works all seemed to treat the same subjects, he replied, "I write of love and death. What other subjects are there?" Despite his seriousness of purpose, Schnitzler frequently approaches the bedroom farce in his plays (and had an affair with one of his actresses, Adele Sandrock). Professor Bernhardi, a play about a Jewish doctor who turns away a Catholic priest in order to spare a patient the realization that she is on the point of death, is his only major dramatic work without a sexual theme.
A member of the avant-garde group Young Vienna (Jung Wien), Schnitzler toyed with formal as well as social conventions. With his 1900 short story Lieutenant Gustl, he was the first to write German fiction in stream-of-consciousness narration. The story is an unflattering portrait of its protagonist and of the army's obsessive code of formal honour. It caused Schnitzler to be stripped of his commission as a reserve officer in the medical corps — something that should be seen against the rising tide of anti-semitism of the time.
He specialized in shorter works like novellas and one-act plays. And in his short stories like "The Green Tie" ("Die grüne Krawatte") he showed himself to be one of the early masters of microfiction. However he also wrote two full-length novels: Der Weg ins Freie about a talented but not very motivated young composer, a brilliant description of a segment of pre-World War I Viennese society; and the artistically less satisfactory Therese.
In addition to his plays and fiction, Schnitzler meticulously kept a diary from the age of 17 until two days before his death, of a brain hemorrhage in Vienna. The manuscript, which runs to almost 8,000 pages, is most notable for Schnitzler's cas
The son of a prominent Hungarian-Jewish laryngologist Johann Schnitzler and Luise Markbreiter (a daughter of the Viennese doctor Philipp Markbreiter), was born in Vienna in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and began studying medicine at the local university in 1879. He received his doctorate of medicine in 1885 and worked at the Vienna's General Hospital, but ultimately abandoned medicine in favour of writing.
His works were often controversial, both for their frank description of sexuality (Sigmund Freud, in a letter to Schnitzler, confessed "I have gained the impression that you have learned through intuition — though actually as a result of sensitive introspection — everything that I have had to unearth by laborious work on other persons")[1] and for their strong stand against anti-Semitism, represented by works such as his play Professor Bernhardi and the novel Der Weg ins Freie. However, though Schnitzler was himself Jewish, Professor Bernhardi and Fräulein Else are among the few clearly-identified Jewish protagonists in his work.
Schnitzler was branded as a pornographer after the release of his play Reigen, in which ten pairs of characters are shown before and after the sexual act, leading and ending with a prostitute. The furore after this play was couched in the strongest anti-semitic terms;[2] his works would later be cited as "Jewish filth" by Adolf Hitler. Reigen was made into a French language film in 1950 by the German-born director Max Ophüls as La Ronde. The film achieved considerable success in the English-speaking world, with the result that Schnitzler's play is better known there under Ophüls' French title.
In the novella, Fräulein Else (1924), Schnitzler may be rebutting a contentious critique of the Jewish character by Otto Weininger (1903) by positioning the sexuality of the young female Jewish protagonist.[3] The story, a first-person stream of consciousness narrative by a young aristocratic woman, reveals a moral dilemma that ends in tragedy.
In response to an interviewer who asked Schnitzler what he thought about the critical view that his works all seemed to treat the same subjects, he replied, "I write of love and death. What other subjects are there?" Despite his seriousness of purpose, Schnitzler frequently approaches the bedroom farce in his plays (and had an affair with one of his actresses, Adele Sandrock). Professor Bernhardi, a play about a Jewish doctor who turns away a Catholic priest in order to spare a patient the realization that she is on the point of death, is his only major dramatic work without a sexual theme.
A member of the avant-garde group Young Vienna (Jung Wien), Schnitzler toyed with formal as well as social conventions. With his 1900 short story Lieutenant Gustl, he was the first to write German fiction in stream-of-consciousness narration. The story is an unflattering portrait of its protagonist and of the army's obsessive code of formal honour. It caused Schnitzler to be stripped of his commission as a reserve officer in the medical corps — something that should be seen against the rising tide of anti-semitism of the time.
He specialized in shorter works like novellas and one-act plays. And in his short stories like "The Green Tie" ("Die grüne Krawatte") he showed himself to be one of the early masters of microfiction. However he also wrote two full-length novels: Der Weg ins Freie about a talented but not very motivated young composer, a brilliant description of a segment of pre-World War I Viennese society; and the artistically less satisfactory Therese.
In addition to his plays and fiction, Schnitzler meticulously kept a diary from the age of 17 until two days before his death, of a brain hemorrhage in Vienna. The manuscript, which runs to almost 8,000 pages, is most notable for Schnitzler's cas
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November 22, 2014
Quanta saggezza. Schnitzler non è un semplice scrittore, bensì un vero e proprio maestro. Tale arte non è morta con Socrate (opinione personale).
June 23, 2019
Questo volume della Newton Compton contiene due brevissime opere teatrali dell'austriaco Arthur Schnitzler.
La prima è "Girotondo", un'opera dalla struttura particolare che, probabilmente è il suo unico punto di forza: dieci dialoghi si susseguono sulla scena, dialoghi tra due personaggi alla volta, che sono sul punto di consumare un rapporto sessuale. Uno dei due sarà il protagonista del dialogo successivo, fino ad arrivare all'ultimo in cui ricompare la prostituta della prima scena, a chiudere questo fantomatico girotondo.
I personaggi appartengono a tutti i ceti sociali e tutti i dialoghi, o quasi, sono caratterizzati dalla donna che si concede con ritrosia e dall'uomo che da innamorato pazzo si trasforma in freddo e cinico seduttore!
L'altro è un drammone con tutti i crismi: un giovane ricco coinvolto in una relazione con una donna sposata che, nel frattempo, si intrattiene e fa innamorare perdutamente l'ingenua ragazza povera di turno. Ovviamente il tutto si conclude in tragedia!
Opere scorrevoli, ma, per quanto mi riguarda, non hanno colpito nel segno!
La prima è "Girotondo", un'opera dalla struttura particolare che, probabilmente è il suo unico punto di forza: dieci dialoghi si susseguono sulla scena, dialoghi tra due personaggi alla volta, che sono sul punto di consumare un rapporto sessuale. Uno dei due sarà il protagonista del dialogo successivo, fino ad arrivare all'ultimo in cui ricompare la prostituta della prima scena, a chiudere questo fantomatico girotondo.
I personaggi appartengono a tutti i ceti sociali e tutti i dialoghi, o quasi, sono caratterizzati dalla donna che si concede con ritrosia e dall'uomo che da innamorato pazzo si trasforma in freddo e cinico seduttore!
L'altro è un drammone con tutti i crismi: un giovane ricco coinvolto in una relazione con una donna sposata che, nel frattempo, si intrattiene e fa innamorare perdutamente l'ingenua ragazza povera di turno. Ovviamente il tutto si conclude in tragedia!
Opere scorrevoli, ma, per quanto mi riguarda, non hanno colpito nel segno!
May 24, 2020
Without delving into other sources for info on Psychoanalysis around 1900s Vienna, this book is rather exasperating to get through--particularly Liebelei. Die Reigen was slightly more bearable and served as good commentary for the relation among social classes.
August 30, 2017
lol Schnitzler must have some serious issues.
May 5, 2018
valutazione dell'estratto di amazon
ignoravo che fosse un autore di opere teatrali.
l'incipt mi lascia indifferente.
ignoravo che fosse un autore di opere teatrali.
l'incipt mi lascia indifferente.
June 9, 2020
Situazioni amorose un tempo scandalose, ora banalotte.
January 11, 2025
Boring
September 5, 2025
Wir mussten das Buch in der Schule als Pflichtlektüre lesen.
November 12, 2008
I hate the cover that has been put on this book. I'll need to read it again to remember why I liked it.
March 30, 2014
Arthur Schnitzler? Wohl eher Arthur Schnacksler...ha. ha. ha.
February 1, 2015
1.5 stars.
it wasn't the worst book i've ever had to read for school but it also definitly wasn't the best.
it wasn't the worst book i've ever had to read for school but it also definitly wasn't the best.
August 9, 2017
Che dire? E' Schnitzler, e non delude mai.
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