The Delorme House
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| Title: | The Delorme House. A family scene |
| Genus: | One act |
| Original language: | German |
| Author: | Arthur Schnitzler |
| Publishing year: | 1904 |
| Premiere: | February 24, 1979 |
| Place and time of the action: | Vienna, present |
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The Delorme House. A family scene is a one-act play by Arthur Schnitzler , which was created close to the Green Cockatoo and the Brave Kassian and should have been premiered in 1904, but was only printed posthumously. Charles Delorme tries to marry richly and therefore accepts the departure of his sister, who is an actress and supports the family. When nothing comes of the wedding, the sister is brought back.
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The good-for-nothing Charles Delorme proudly reports to his mother that she convinced the Jewish heiress Elsa Pollak to marry. At the same time he complains that his sister, the actress Mathilde, has a relationship with Franz. The corrupt morals disturb him. Mathilde moves into the hotel indignantly, Charles lets her have a look at his future wealth. Then Elsa arrives, whose parents want to forbid marriage: she has fled and wants to lead a simple life with Charles. When he learns that her father has gambled away the money and no inheritance is to be expected, he shows her outside. Now the mother and Charles try to bring Mathilde back - the only family income. This succeeds and with the surprisingly dropping by father who left his mother seven years ago, people end up drinking and dancing.
Canceled premiere
Schnitzler himself cites this as the reason for the cancellation of the planned premiere by Max Reinhardt : “Apparently they wanted Del. because the evening was too long, in reality because the actors were grim against the play (especially Burg) - and now a note appears yesterday in the Kl. Journal, which I only found out from Reinhardt in the evening - that Reinhardt had canceled it because it illuminates the family relationships of Adele Sandrock in an 'unambiguous and unlovable way'. ”(Letter to Olga Schnitzler , November 14th [1904]) Before the dismissal he published a statement on the censorship difficulties in the Neue Wiener Tagblatt .
There was no performance during Schnitzler's lifetime. The first performance took place on February 24, 1979 in the Akademietheater .
Motifs
In the description of the actor family, contemporaries noticed the Sandrock family, with Adele Sandrock and her brother Christian Sandrock . A comparable description of the family is provided by Adele Sandrock in her piece Vergeltung (1900) , written together with Robert Eysler .
The depraved Delorme family seems to be a social study in which, in addition to heredity - Charles is like his father, Mathilde is his mother - anti-Semitism is also discussed when the mother inquires about Elsa Pollak's Jewish appearance.
Prints
- Arthur Schnitzler: The Delorme House. A family scene . In: Drafted and rejected. From the estate. Edited by Reinhard Urbach. Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer 1977 (Collected Works), pp. 349–365. ( online )
Further
- Arthur Schnitzler: The Delorme House. A family scene . Edited by Reinhard Urbach . In: Ver Sacrum . Neue Hefte für Kunst und Literatur, 1970, pp. 46–52.
- Arthur Schnitzler: The Delorme House. A family scene . In: Renate Wagner (Ed.): Dilly. Adele Sandrock and Arthur Schnitzler. Story of a love in letters, pictures and documents . Vienna / Munich: Amalthea 1975.
- Arthur Schnitzler: The Delorme House. A family scene . In: AS: The dramatic work . In chronological order. 12 vols. Frankfurt a. M .: S. Fischer 1993-1999, Volume 4 (1999).
literature
- Reinhard Urbach: Materials for Das Haus Delorme . In: Ver Sacrum . Neue Hefte für Kunst und Literatur, 1970, pp. 53–55.
supporting documents
- ↑ Arthur Schnitzler: Letters 1875–1912, pp. 488–489.
- ↑ Delorme House. A correction by Arthur Schnitzler. November 25, 1904, accessed June 27, 2016 .
- ↑ Together with The Companion and The Last Masks . Staging: Joachim Bißmeier , stage design and costumes: Herbert Kapplmüller , dramaturgy: Reinhard Urbach. See Achim Benning and Reinhard Urbach (eds.): Burgtheater Wien 1776–1986. Image and contradiction. Vienna: Anton Schroll 1986, p. 247.
- ↑ For example Arthur Schnitzler's literary estate. In: Prager Tagblatt , October 30, 1931, p. 7 (online at ANNO ).