Arthur schnitzler biography
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Arthur Schnitzler &#; Biography &#; Famous People from Vienna, Austria
Arthur Schnitzler is one of Austria&#;s literary heavyweights. He received extensive training in medicine and was especially interested in psychology, an interest that influenced his writing a great deal. A contemporary of Sigmund Freud, Schnitzler was impressed by the idea of a repressed unconscious. His prose "Leutnant Gustl" (Ensign Gustl) wass written in stream of consciousness technique and was published in , well before James Joyce wrote his &#;Ulysses&#;.
His plays &#;Reigen&#; and &#;Liebelei&#; are possibly his best known works and scandalized the Vienna of the &#;s with a honest depiction of the lax moral manners behind a conservative surface. The characteres are types rather than individuals. In &#;Reigen&#; they do not have names but are called after their function husband, wive, young man, sweet girl and so on. In all scenes two figures are clearly stating their amorous intenti
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Schnitzler, Arthur, (author)
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Arthur Schnitzler (), Austrian playwright and novelist, was born in was born in Praterstraße 16, Leopoldstadt, Vienna, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He was a son of a prominent Hungarian laryngologist Johann Schnitzler () and Luise Markbreiter. His parents were both from Jewish families. He began studying medicine at the University of Vienna in and received his doctorate of medicin in He then worked at Vienna's General Hospital (German: Allgemeines Krankenhaus der Stadt Wien, AKH), but ultimately abandoned medicine in favour of writing. In his works he dissected, and rarely without mercy, the ailing body of Viennese society of which he was a very active part, with his eyes and mind trained on meticulous medical detail. He specialized in shorter works like novellas and one-act plays. This impressively rich period of Austrian cultural history has often been explained by the unique multinational, multilingual envir
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Arthur Schnitzler was born the son of the Jewish doctor Johann Schnitzler, a throat specialist, on May 15, in Vienna. His mother, Louise, belonged to a wealthy, well respected Viennese family whereas his father had worked his way up to the rank of the director of the Viennese Polyclinic. Already as a child Arthur began to write his first plays but abandoned writing in order to study medicine at the University of Vienna, where he received his doctorate in He worked at Vienna’s General Hospital and later assisted his father in the Polyclinic. Eventually, he opened his own private practice which allowed him to dedicate more and more of his time to his literary endeavors. As a young doctor Schnitzler had written articles for medical journals but now he began writing for the theater again which was encouraged by his lover, the actress Adele Sandrock. He published his first book entitled Sterben with the publishing house Fischer in
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