The fate of Freiherr von Leisenbohg

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The Fate of Baron von Leisenbohg is a 1903 novellette by Arthur Schnitzler , which appeared in July 1904 in the literary magazine Neue Rundschau in Berlin. The author included the little work in his collection of novels, Dämmerseelen ( S. Fischer , Berlin 1907).

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The 35-year-old ministerial official Freiherr von Leisenbohg had already promoted the stage career of the “Queen of the Night” - that is the opera singer Kläre Hell - ten years ago. Klare shows no gratitude at all. In doing so, Leisenbohg gives up his promising state career and follows Kläre from Vienna to Dresden. The singer definitely rejects his advances and gets involved with one admirer after the other. She does not hide her love affairs from the baron. After returning to Vienna, Leisenbohg lets his relationships play out and gives Klare an engagement. The singer is now even popular in Vienna and rejects marriage proposals from the sons of manufacturers. The baron soon no longer believes in the longed-for happiness after Klare loved Prince Richard Bedenbbruck with deep passion for three years in a row. The prince dies. Klare mourns.

Then the Tristan and Lohengrin interpreter Sigurd Ölse from the north enters Kläres Leben. Sigurd loves Klare passionately, but the beautiful one keeps her distance. Leisenbohg experiences a miracle. He is heard by clarity. The baron can hardly believe his luck and dreams of the future with clarity. But the unfaithful leaves him by train - of all things, on the train that Sigurd is on.

Finally, Sigurd beats the annoying rival out of the field with an "ingenious idea". He lets the baron come to him and tells him about Prince Bedenbruck's curse. The prince articulated on his deathbed: He should go to hell who is the first to have clarity after him.

After this opening, Leisenbohg is terrified and dies.

reception

  • Hugo von Hofmannsthal thought: "Leisenbogh is good, absolutely pleasant, absolutely fine, should just have a little more intensity in the grotesque."
  • The Wagner tenor Sigurd Ölse plays with his victim Leisenbohg after coldly calculating the baron as being easily receptive to the unconscious .
  • Occasionally Schnitzler took up spiritualism as a topic.
  • Occasionally Schnitzler makes it all too easy for himself to transport his protagonist into the afterlife.

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First printing

First edition

  • The fate of Freiherr von Leisenbohg . In addition to Das neue Lied , Die Weissagung , Die Fremde and Andreas Thameyer's last letter contained in: Arthur Schnitzler: Dämmerseelen. Novellas. S. Fischer, Berlin 1907. 132 pages

Further editions

  • Arthur Schnitzler: The fate of the Freiherr von Leisenbohg. P. 444–463 in Heinz Ludwig Arnold (Ed.): Arthur Schnitzler: Leutnant Gustl. Stories 1892–1907. With an afterword by Michael Scheffel . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1961 (2004 edition). 525 pages, ISBN 3-10-073552-8 (source)

On-line

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Source, p. 523, first entry
  2. ^ Hugo von Hofmannsthal to Arthur Schnitzler, July 1, 1904 In: Martin Anton Müller, Gerd Hermann Susen (eds.): Arthur Schnitzler: Correspondence with authors . Digital edition. https://schnitzler-briefe.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/pages/show.html?document=1904-07-01_01.xml accessed on May 20, 2020
  3. ↑ Perlmann, p. 119, 14th Zvu
  4. ↑ Sprengel, p. 85, 10th Zvu
  5. ↑ Sprengel, p. 238, 20th Zvu
  6. ↑ Source, p. 522, last entry