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Arthur Schnitzler
Arthur Schnitzler was an Austrian author and dramatist. He is considered one of the most significant representatives of Viennese Modernism. Schnitzler's works, which include psychological dramas and narratives, dissected turn-of-the-century Viennese bourgeois life, making him a sharp and stylistically conscious chronicler of Viennese society around 1900. Schnitzler's Jewish upbringing and the sexu…
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science · Austrian author and dramatist (1862–1931) · writer · playwright · physician writer · screenwriter · psychiatrist · novelist · television writer · film screenwriter · prose writer · physician · also Arthur Schnitzler, Schnitzler
Born 15 May 1862 · Died 21 October 1931 · Q44331
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 1 entry
News24: ‘This is physical’: Arthur Schnitzler’s La Ronde gets a daring modern twist at the Baxter
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2017· 1 entry
Publishers Weekly: Books by Arthur Schnitzler and Complete Book Reviews
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2013· 1 entry
Jewish Telegraphic Agency: Arthur Schnitzler Dead
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1998· 1 entry
It was reworked by British playwright David Hare as The Blue Room
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1973· 1 entry
Five of Schnitzler's short stories were adapted as the BBC television series "Vienna 1900"
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1960· 1 entry
With Attila Hörbiger as Hofreiter, the second by Peter Beauvais in 1970 with O
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1950· 1 entry
By the German-born director Max Ophüls as La Ronde
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1938· 1 entry
Following the Anschluss, his son Heinrich went to the United States and did not return to Austria until 1959; he is the father of the Austrian musician and conservationist Michael Schnitzler, born in 1944 in Berkeley, Ca
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1933· 3 entries
And Pierre Gaspard-Huit in 1958 (Christine), and also adapted as Dalliance by Tom Stoppard (1986) and Sweet Nothings by David Harrower for the Young Vic in 2010
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When Joseph Goebbels organized book burnings in Berlin and other cities, Schnitzler's works were thrown into flames along with those of other Jews, including Einstein, Marx, Kafka, Freud and Stefan Zweig
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Career landmark: Nazi book burnings.
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1931· 1 entry
Died 1931-10-21.
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1909· 1 entry
Had a daughter, Lili, who committed suicide in 1928
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1908· 1 entry
Awarded Franz-Grillparzer-Preis for Zwischenspiel (1908).
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1906· 1 entry
“Even if you have almost forgotten who I am, allow me nonetheless to add my congratulations to the many that you will be receiving today. I have your writings to thank for a multitude of strong and profound stimuli, and your 50th birthday gives me an opportunity to tell you this and assure you of my most sincere and warmest admiration.”
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1899· 1 entry
Awarded Bauernfeld prize (1899).
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1879· 1 entry
Schnitzler began studying medicine at the University of Vienna and in 1885 he received his doctorate of medicine
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1871· 1 entry
Studied at Akademisches Gymnasium (1871–1871).
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1862· 1 entry
Born 1862-05-15.
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