Biography

Schnitzler was innate inside Vienna and began studying medicine at a University of Vienna in 1879. He received his doctor's degree of medicine inside 1885 and worked in Vienna's General Hospital, however at last abandoned medicine in favor writing.

His works were typically controversial, two for their frank description of sex (Sigmund Freud, in the 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") too when for their hard have against anti-Semitism. Schnitzler was branded as a porn merchant fallowing a release of his play Reigen, & his works were late cited for instance of "Jewish filth" by Adolf Hitler.

Despite his seriousness of purpose, Schnitzler often approaches a bedroom farce in his plays. Prof Bernhardi, the play just about the Jewish doctor world health organization turns away the Catholic priest, is his simply major dramatic function while forgoing the intimate theme.

The member of the avant garde class action Young Vienna (Jung Wien), Schnitzler toyed with formal likewise when social conventions. By using his 1900 short story "Lietenant Gustl," he was a number 1 to write German fiction around stream-of-consciousness narration. He specialized shortly works prefer novelette & 1-work plays, & concisely short stories prefer "The Green Tie" (Die grüne Krawatte) he showed himself to exist as one of a early masters of microfiction.

Additionally to his plays & fiction, Schnitzler meticulously saved the diary from either the age of Xvii until deuce years prior to his demise, of a brain hemorrhage in Vienna. A manuscript, which diarrhea to all but 8,000 places, is virtually all notable for Schnitzler's casual descriptions of sexual conquests — he was typically within relationships sustaining many women at when, & for the period of the select few years he saved a record of each coming. Collections of Schnitzler's letters keep close at hand likewise been published.

Selected works

Plays
Anatol (1893) Dalliance (Liebelei - 1895) the.k.the. A Reckoning, which was mass produced into the film by Max Ophüls and adapted as Dalliance by British playwright Tom Stoppard. Quarry (Freiwild - 1896) Mitts About (Reigen - 1900), too known as La Ronde, is still oftentimes presented. Max Ophüls directed the number one pic adaptation of the play within 1950, & Roger Vadim directed a second version around 1964. Paracelsus (1899) A Green Cockatoo (500 grüne Kakadu - 1899) A Lonely Way (Five hundred einsame Weg - 1904) Countess Mizzi (Komtesse Mizzi o500 river Der Familientag - 1909) Young Medardus (500 junge Medardus - 1910) A Vast Domain (Cony weite Land - 1911), adapted when Undiscovered United states by Tom Stoppard. Prof Bernhardi (1912) A Comedy of Seduction (Komödie 500 Verführung - 1924)

Novels
A Road Into a Open (Der Weg immigration and naturalization service Freie - 1908) Therese. Chronik eines Frauenlebens (1928)

Short stories and novellas
Death (Sterben - 1895) Lieutenant Gustl (Leutnant Gustl - 1900) Berta Garlan (1900) Blind Geronimo & his Brother (500 blinde Geronimo und sein Bruder - 1902) A Prophecy (Die Weissagung - 1905) ''Casanova's Homecoming (Casanovas Heimfahrt - 1918) Fräulein Else (1924) Dream Story (Traumnovelle - 1925/26), later adapted when a film Eyes Wide Shut by American director Stanley Kubrick) Nighttime Games (Spiel im Morgengrauen - 1926) Flight into Darkness (Flucht within die Finsternis - 1931)

Nonfiction
Youth within Vienna (Jugend around Wien), an autobiography published posthumously inside 1968 Diary, 1879-1931