The Austrian dramatist and novelist Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931) is at his best in one-act plays and novellas that often deal with extreme situations--death, sexual conflicts, and neurotic and even p...
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Arthur Schnitzler was born on 15 May 1862 in Vienna, the first child of Johann Schnitzler, a laryngologist, and Louise Markbreiter Schnitzler, a physician's daughter. Johann Schnitzler, who wrote for ...
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Scarcely any playwright is as closely identified with turn-of-the-century Vienna as is Arthur Schnitzler. Once regarded as a one-sided writer whose perspective was limited to upper-crust Viennese soci...
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Biography EssayArthur Schnitzler was born on 15 May 1862 in Vienna, the first child of Johann Schnitzler, a laryngologist, and Louise Markbreiter Schnitzler, a physician's daughter. Johann Schnitzler,...
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Liebelei
Arthur Schnitzler's 1895 play `Liebelei' provoked mass controversy within the Viennese upper class upon its premier in the `Burgtheater', as did many of his plays. This reaction could in p...
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