Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Reigen by Arthur Schnitzler DER REIGEN: A PLAY BY ARTHUR SCHNITZLER. Arthur Schnitzler was born on the 15 of May 1862 as the son of a Jewish medical Doctor. He spent five years studying medicine at the Vienna University and became an admirer of Sigmund Freud. Later Schnitzler and Freud became closer friends and shared many similar ideologies. After his studies at the University he joined the army for one year and received his doctorate at the same time. In 1885 Sigmund Freud and Schnitzler shared many ideas and interests, which examined the theories of unconsciousness and sub-consciousness. At the age of 31 Schnitzler decided to focus on his writing and his critical views of the K&K monarchy (Kaiserlich und Koeniglich). From the year 1890 onwards, Schnitzler and Hugo von Hofmannsthal belonged to an elite artistic group called the "Wiener Modern". In this establishment he was one of the most vehement critics of the K&K monarchy of Austria and Hungary. Only three years later Schnitzler decided to open his own private practice to be able to focus more on his writing. His novel "Leutnant Gustl" which became publicized in 1900 was the first to use an inner monologue as a new form of expression. His novel, which was an insult to the Austrian Army, made him loose the honours he had received when being in the army. He first started to write novels such as the Reigen, but Schnitzler also developed a certain passion for writing fiction, which later became the dominant style in his life. When his daughter committed suicide in the year of 1930, many people said that Schnitzler never really recovered from this tragedy and that his loss made his life seems pointless. Arthur Schnitzler died eventually one year later on the 21st of October in 1931 in Vienna. Later the Nazis in Germany and Austria banned his plays and novels, as they did with many Jewish writers. "Der Reigen" � the play. The play consists of five men and five women with a total of ten dialogues. Every act focuses on the sexual desires of each person. When one act is finished one of the characters is left behind, whereas the other moves on to the next partner, therefore moving up from one social class to the next. The play starts with the "Dirne", the Soldier leaves the "Dirne" behind and has his next sexual relationship with the Parlour maid. This pattern repeats itself until the Graf (being the aristocrat) meets up with the "Dirne" again, thereby closing the circle of sexual inter-relationships and social inter-relation. The play also focuses on the superior and inferior complexes of people from different sex and social standard. Interpretation of the Reigen. At first, the Reigen was not meant to be a play. Schnitzler originally only printed 200 copies in 1903 for his fellow writers in the coffeehouses. But in the year 1920 the play was performed for the first time in Hungary. The reason for this was because when the play became public it was banned from the State in Vienna and Leipzig, and therefore could not be performed. It was originally a critical All of these are a couple at some stage. Schnitzler uses representative forms of all classes of that time and never mentions their names. He emphasises the representation of their respective social classes by playing with their dialects and their behaviour. The first scene is repeated ten times, the only alteration being the substitution of one character in each scene, and yet the audience does not become bored. In fact one feels the tension of the unmoral evoking. The repetition of "Werbung", "Lockung", "Paarung", "Saettigung" and "Ernuechterung" are the main parts of every scene. The main essence that Schnitzler wanted to make understood is that every human being, regardless of its sex and social status has something in common, which not always is to be seen as a result of love and marriage. Especially this criticism made Schnitzler break through as one of the most important critics of the century. Schnitzler also puts himself into the play as the Writer that has an affair with the Actress and young Girl. But by writing this play from the perspective of an outside viewer he again distances himself from the moral. Schnitzler also managed to make the couples fit together by always matching one person with a character from a higher social class than the other. Another interesting point is that each time a higher social class is reached, the dialogues become longer and the characters more elaborated, but this is only due to the higher classes being more formal than the others. Schnitzler though does not leave out the point that he is trying to make and that is to show that all individuals are only interested in their respective sexual satisfaction. Reaction of the public to the play. As mentioned before Arthur Schnitzler published 200 copies of the "Reigen" which he distributed among his fellow writers. In 1903 the Reigen was printed in Vienna and Leipzig. The play, which became censored, was played 20 years later in Hungarian language. The idea to perform this Schnitzler play in the Hungarian language was to escape from the strict regime of the Austrian monarchy. The play was so appalling to the society, that the actors were taken to court. The play became so famous during the trial that no other writer could have wanted a better "promotion" for his novels and plays. The actors were prosecuted and the play was banned again. Schnitzler though did not let him self be intimidated by the court and wrote many novels and plays criticizing many of the social happenings. Correlations with today. Many books and films today are used to criticise the public of today. There are differences of course and that are that the social system of the turn of the century has faded away. The classes are not dominant as they used to be. But the interrelation of people with each other has not changed to such an extent. Due to the two world wars the time of liberalism and socialism was paused and therefore these issues were only able to develop after 1945. Also critics were only accepted after the world wars and therefore artist may have felt the urge to criticise the whole time span form 1919 to 1945. Schnitzler addresses not only the social classes and their behaviour to each other. He also reflected the relationship between man and woman. This analysis and representation of the reality is just as right as today. ARTHUR SCHNITZLER REIGEN PDF. The Project Gutenberg EBook of Hands Around [Reigen], by Arthur Schnitzler This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other . When Arthur Schnitzler was sixteen years old, his physician father discovered This piece was REIGEN (Hands Around in English, in the sense of ‘Ring Around . Steven said: Arthur Schnitzler deemed his play ‘La Ronde’ too raunchy Arthur Schnitzler’s play La Ronde (Reigen in German), written in but not. Author: Vudorr Akinozuru Country: Turkmenistan Language: English (Spanish) Genre: Photos Published (Last): 25 January 2017 Pages: 278 PDF File Size: 2.17 Mb ePub File Size: 17.72 Mb ISBN: 779-8-70314-832-4 Downloads: 91781 Price: Free* [ *Free Regsitration Required ] Uploader: Shakazilkree. The play is set in the s in Vienna. Jan 25, Susan Lester rated it really liked it. La Ronde (play) – Wikipedia. I mean, Felix Salten, one of Schnitzler’s contemporaries, is the same Austro-Hungarian who wrote the adorable tale of Bambi and the sexually inexhaustible exploits of Josefine Mutzen Brilliantly scnhitzler. She imagines that she is well and that her lover is coming to carry her away. At least I can say I read it. Britta rated it it was amazing Apr echnitzler, Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. Its dramatic structure consists of ten interlocking scenes between pairs of lovers. Was treibt ihn weiter? Misunderstandings and jealousy abound and while one partner often feels a strong attraction for the other, the opposite partner in each scene often will make any excuse to leave. The Count and the Girl of the Streets As you would guess from such a topic and structure, Schnitzler was very open on sexuality despite the veiled language used at times. Michael Schnitzler grandson Johann Schnitzler father. Published January 1st by Methuen Publishing first published Explore the Home Gift Guide. We’ll assume you’re ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish. Yet everything that Schnitzler thought about love-making based only on sexuality he wrote into this play. Want to Read saving…. View all 7 comments. His simultaneous understanding and ignorance yields some of the funniest lines of the play. 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. Series of dialogues with sex as subject matter. The scenes as listed using the linked translation’s names are as follows: 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. Antonia rated it liked it Oct 03, By choosing characters across all levels of society, artyur play offers social commentary on how sexual contact transgresses boundaries of class. In other projects Wikimedia Commons. Want to Read Currently Reading Read. I missed a lack of overarching narrative though, it was hard to care much for any character and each situation was prone to hit or miss. His schnifzler is that all levels of society are the same in their approach to eroticism, all self-centered. He specialized in shorter works like novellas and one-act plays. It paints a very unique picture on sex, as if Schnitzler is saying that love is very untrustworthy. Don’t you wear a corset? AmazonGlobal Ship Orders Internationally. In Hands Around, a short play by the Austrian playwright Arthur Schnitzler, ten characters are portrayed before and after the physical act of love in and around the cafes, restaurants, and drawing rooms of turn of the century Vienna. This is the second piece of Schnitzler’s work I have read and want to read more. 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. There have been many productions of his play since, and in recent years even Nicole Kidman took to the stage in he Arthur Schnitzler deemed his play ‘La Ronde’ too raunchy and provocative for a public audience. Nov 04, Steven Godin rated it really liked it Shelves: Macht Lust auf Wien und auf Beischlaf. Dec 07, the gift rated it it was amazing Shelves: Uno dei due personaggi della scena appena conclusa riappare in quella successiva, in una concatenazione di incontri che potrebbe procedere all’infinito. Arthur Schnitzler was an Austrian author and dramatist. Eventually, the matter becomes so complex that Bernhardi is removed from his post and must serve two months in prison. Reigen: Zehn Dialoge by Arthur Schnitzler. The Young Gentleman unbuttons her boots, kisses her feet. Arricchisce il volume il dramma in tre atti “Amoretto”. The play explores the breaking or enforcement of class barriers, and the fetishization of people outside a character’s social world. The text is published by Oberon Books. Adam rated it did not like it Aug 23, The son of a prominent Hungarian-Jewish laryngologist Johann Schnitzler and Luise Markbreiter a daughter of the Viennese doctor Philipp Markbreiterwas born in Vienna in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and began studying medicine at the local university schbitzler I hope to read it schnnitzler and that I get it then. This adaptation, under its previous title round dancewas given a workshop production at the University of Texas at Austin in 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. The play remained popular in Russia, Czechoslovakia, and especially in France, where it was adapted for the cinema twice, in and again in Goodreads helps you keep track of reien you want to read. ARTHUR SCHNITZLER REIGEN PDF. The Project Gutenberg EBook of Hands Around [Reigen], by Arthur Schnitzler This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere in the United States and most other . When Arthur Schnitzler was sixteen years old, his physician father discovered This piece was REIGEN (Hands Around in English, in the sense of ‘Ring Around . Steven said: Arthur Schnitzler deemed his play ‘La Ronde’ too raunchy Arthur Schnitzler’s play La Ronde (Reigen in German), written in but not. Author: Mikagore Nikogore Country: Mexico Language: English (Spanish) Genre: Marketing Published (Last): 20 November 2010 Pages: 187 PDF File Size: 5.8 Mb ePub File Size: 2.17 Mb ISBN: 492-4-14439-302-5 Downloads: 42430 Price: Free* [ *Free Regsitration Required ] Uploader: Shakakora. To ask other readers questions about Arthur Schnitzler, Reigen Erlauterungen und Dokumenteplease sign up. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. Anne rated it really liked it Jan 04, There are other devices used in the structure that adds to the play. Protagonisti che, per non far torti a nessuno, rappresentano tutte le categorie sociali, e grazie ad un geniale espediente narrativo, ci propongono le loro avventure in una struttura circolare praticamente infinita. Der Weg ins Freie about a talented but not very motivated young composer, a brilliant description of a arthhr of pre-World War I Viennese society; and the artistically less satisfactory Therese. Its dramatic structure consists reiyen ten interlocking scenes between pairs of lovers. The one licit coupling appears at the center of the play between the wife and husband, but even that scene involves the exertion necessary in a marriage as opposed to the exertion needed for…other things in addition to the baggage that is brought into a marriage. Thanks for reign us about the problem. A member of the avant-garde group Young Vienna Jung WienSchnitzler toyed with formal as well as social conventions. With his short story Lieutenant Gustl, he was the first to write German fiction in stream-of-consciousness narration. Anatol La Ronde Professor Bernhardi Perfect Paperbackpages. This was worth reading though, and reading plays is starting to grow on me. La Reien is a truly unique and unforgettable play, and a definite must- read if ever there was one. Orphuls added a master of ceremonies to direct the viewer from one couple to the next, and a merry-go-around to strengthen the point. Hands Around [Reigen]: A Cycle of Ten Dialogues by Arthur Schnitzler. Within the hierarchy of the clinic itself, as within Parliament, people maneuver for advantage. With ten different love affairs documented here, I thought there would be greater variation in the scenes. The characters in the play include members of the military, the nobility, and the bourgeoisie, as well as a poet, an actress, a husband and a wife. Maybe it would be better seen onstage. Apr 13, Edward Cheer atthur it it was amazing Shelves: Bianca Thalhammer rated it it was amazing Nov 15, Don’t you wear a corset? But you’re tearing everything! Write a customer review. Misunderstandings and jealousy abound and while one partner often feels a strong attraction for the other, the opposite partner in each scene often will make any excuse to leave. We would be tired of each other. Potentially very interesting, but a lot of the impact will really depend on the actors and actresses involved. The form was first used by Craig Cackowski in Chicago in the mids. Arthur Schnitzler, Reigen (Erlauterungen und Dokumente) by Thomas Koebner. Printed privately inthe play was not publicly performed untilwhen it provoked strong reactions. The story looks out from the rather dull head of a young lieutenant throughout a night in which he thinks rwigen committing suicide. Try the Kindle edition and experience these great reading features: She imagines that she is well and that her lover is coming to carry her away. Sabine rated it it was amazing Dec 30, Arthur Schnitzler was an Austrian author and dramatist. And this infidelity isn’t something that only streetwalkers and simple soldiers partake in, as the play introduces, but it carries on I think I have a new favorite play. Each couple is also incredibly fleshed out. Explore the Home Gift Guide. Learn more about Amazon Prime. Macht Lust auf Wien und dchnitzler Beischlaf. Schnitzler suffered moralistic and personal attacks that became virulently anti-Semitic. Reigen. We are sorry. We are not allowed to sell this product with the selected payment method. Publisher's Summary. Fünf Männer und fünf Frauen bilden wechselnde Paare, die sich im körperlichen Akt vorübergehend verbinden, wieder lösen und zum nächsten Partner wechseln, bis sich im Zusammentreffen der letzten mit der ersten Person der "Reigen" schließt. Ob Soldat, Dirne, Dichter oder Aristokrat: Allein Begierde und Verführung bestimmen die Regeln dieses erotischen Spiels und lassen die Grenzen der bürgerlichen Gesellschaft verschwimmen. Mit seinem "Reigen" demontierte Schnitzler die Grundfesten sittlicher Konvention und verursachte den größten Theaterskandal des 20. Jahrhunderts. Arthur Schnitzler – La Ronde. Arthur Schnitzler’s play La Ronde has had a curious history. Schnitzler originally wrote it in 1897. The first publication was a printing in 1900 for private circulation, under its original, German title, Reigen, and its first commercial publication was 3 years later, in Vienna, in a run of 40,000. However it was promptly banned by the censors a year later, and not re-published until 1908 in Germany. A translation and publication in French followed in 1912, with the title which has become most familiar, La Ronde. The translation into English was published in 1920, in a ‘privately printed, privately circulated’ edition. As the play is ‘A Round’ of sexual encounters, it was clearly seen as far too hot to handle. The title also inherently suggests a kind of dance, where partners are swapped. The play is presented in 10 two-person scenes. Characters are not named, instead, their ‘function’ describes them – for example, the first pairing is the Prostitute and the Soldier. The second scene is the Soldier (from the scene before), with, now, a new partner, the Maid (Parlour Maid). The third scene features the Parlour Maid with the Young Master. The final, scene 10 encounter involves the Prostitute from the first scene, so completing the circle. As difficult as it had been to get the play printed, early performance proved equally challenging. It was not performed until 1912 (in translation), in Hungary, and was immediately banned after that first performance. It had its first performance in German in 1920 in Germany and 1921 in Austria, and was quite violently received, both pro and anti. The ‘anti-camp’ included not only those outraged by its frank acknowledgement of sexuality, but also those who objected to Schnitzler himself – he was Jewish, so subject matter and race were linked by the ‘anti-camp’ as some of those antis were anti-Semitic – the play seen as pornographic, the author attacked as a Jewish pornographer. Schnitzler withdrew the rights to public performance of the play in German, though the play was popular in other countries, in translation – and, most particularly in France, where there were a couple of movie adaptations, one by Max Ophuls (1950) and one by Roger Vadim (1964) Snippets of Ophuls. When the play came out of copyright early in the 80s, it rather gained a new lease of life, particularly with versions which updated the setting (1890s Vienna) to a more modern take on how class boundaries break down when sex itself, divorced from any idea of permanent encounter, or even, from love, is engaged in for its own sake. So there have been several adaptations of the play setting it in the gay community, a production with characters with a range of sexual orientation, and productions where the ‘class-levelling’ encounters were differently expressed, so, for example instead of Schnitzler’s ‘servant’ and ‘master’, the power dynamic could be expressed using more contemporary ideas of who has power and who doesn’t. There have also been re-writings or adaptations of the piece – for example, the British playwright David Hare, in his version The Blue Room. There have also been musicals based on Schnitzler’s play! Nicole Kidman and Iain Glen in David Hare’s version of La Ronde, The Blue Room, 1998, Donmar Warehouse. I have to admit I did struggle with reading the play – far more than the first two novels I read in ‘Reading the Twentieth’ – (Theodore Dreiser’s wonderful Sister Carrie, and Colette’s remarkably free spirited look at the sexuality of young girls, Claudine at School). Schnitzler reads as quite dated. Not to mention a little coy. I don’t know how much translation (Stephen Unwin and Peter Zombory-Moldovan are both credited as translators and writers of the excellent introduction) itself is responsible, and how much is a kind of more dated quality in spoken language, particularly when something about class is being suggested by the use of slang. Using original slang can lose punch. Trying to update specific language can still sound peculiar. Certainly, a play depends on far more than merely words upon a page, but some plays seem to leap more easily into how they might look and sound, when read silently.. So, for example, in this translation, in the first encounter, (Prostitute, Soldier) the Soldier says to the Prostitute at one point ‘Give us a snog’ – so, fair enough, language has been modernised…..except that, a little later the Prostitute says ‘At least give me sixpence for the housekeeper’ and, when he runs off without paying, her language is restrained, her curses mild : ‘You scum! Bastard!’ The mismatches irritated me. Gustave Klimt, The Kiss. What I did find, far more fascinating than the play itself on the page, was that excellent introduction in this edition, which looks not only at Schnitzler himself, and this play in particular, but at the politics, society and culture of Vienna at the beginning of the twentieth century, and examines, for example, the popularity of the sentimentalism of Strauss’s waltzes, Lehar’s operettas on the one hand, and the disturbing, more challenging and unsettling ‘new’ music as defined by Mahler and Schoenberg on the other. In the visual arts, a Viennese variant of Art Nouveau was emerging – as seen in the work of Klimt; Egon Schiele was also painting, and there is a frank eroticism in the work of both artists. Sensuality up front, as in La Ronde. There is also, in the music, in the art, and in La Ronde, an underlying anxiety, a melancholy – it is that ‘ring of bright hair about the bone’, the ticking clock, the impermanence of it all – and Schnitzler himself, in a diary entry, links love and death together. Each relationship carries its death right from the birth, just as people do. Lest this all sound too gloomy, there is also, quite clearly, a playfulness in the encounters, and I suspect the best productions will contain the idea of a kind of dance between each couple, a flirtatious game of seduction, deception, dishonesty. The sex-cheating-death-for-a-moment is subtext rather than smacking the audience in the head from the off. Egon Schiele The Embrace. Schinitzler himself, perhaps unsurprisingly, as he had originally been a doctor, was a Viennese, and clearly interested in the mismatch between our conscious structures and our unconscious drives, corresponded with Freud, another Viennese, also Jewish, who of course has been a towering and central figure on ‘the Century of the Self’. Schnitzler, as a doctor, was interested in ‘psychological approaches’ in the treatment of physical ailments. Freud was full of admiration for Schnitzler, and how his writings , through imagination, were laying out much of what Freud’s books are about. Freud’s conclusions came from observations and encounters with clients, and the process of psychoanalysis. Part of the 3rd movement of Mahler’s Symphony No 4, composed 1899/1900. Part of my reason for reading this has been because my original choice of Dreiser, the desire for a lighter read (Colette) and the fact that Freud’s Interpretations of Dreams seemed to me to be far and away the most potentially interesting non-fiction book of 1900, did end up making a kind of reading pattern around women, and attitudes to their sexuality, and the powerful drives we cannot simply rationalise away, though that is indeed what we may strive to do – so, a mismatch between surface and what lies below the surface has seemed a common thread. Dreiser references some of what is being discussed in the Interpretation of Dreams, and talks at one point about pre-existing scientific theories of dreams, which Freud also spends a lot of time dissecting, before talking about his own findings. La Ronde has certainly been an illuminating 1900 piece, though, of course, a slightly controversial one to pin to a specific year, given its stop start, stop start history both on the page and in performance.