The dead Gabriel
The dead Gabriel is a short story by the Austrian writer Arthur Schnitzler that appeared in the Viennese daily Neue Freie Presse on May 19, 1907 . It was included in the short story collection Masks und Wunder , published by S. Fischer in 1912 .
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Shortly after the young author Gabriel committed suicide, his friend Ferdinand Neumann met Irene, who was in love with Gabriel, at a ball. He is amazed at the apparent happiness of Irene in the face of the loss. Ferdinand remembers the past events: He had an affair with the actress Wilhelmine Bischof, Gabriel's lover, and saw Gabriel walking restlessly up and down in front of Wilhelmine's apartment the night before his suicide, in which Ferdinand was staying. Ferdinand's remorse, however, quickly vanished again.
Irene speaks to Ferdinand. She believes Gabriel killed himself because of Wilhelmine. Ferdinand admits he knows Wilhelmine a little, whereupon Irene asks him to introduce her to her. Together they drive to Wilhelmine's property, where both are received by the actress. During their superficial conversation, the hostess warns Irene about her companion, as if to joke. Soon after, Irene and Ferdinand say goodbye and drive back to the ball. Irene kisses him surprisingly in the carriage, and he realizes that she knows that she is involved in Gabriel's suicide. When getting out, she warns him not to follow her.
A few days later Ferdinand tells what happened to a friend. In his pocket he already has the ticket for a longer journey, he will continue his empty life undamaged: "For three days he has also understood that people can die out of hopeless love ... others of course ... others."
background
According to the literary historian Peter Sprengel , Schnitzler incorporated his experiences with the actress Adele Sandrock into the story .
Reinhard Urbach has crossed out the overlap of the characters in Schnitzler's drama fragment Das Wort , sd
filming
- Der tote Gabriel , Austria 1968, directed by Hans-Peter Holasek , with Wolfgang Hübsch , Erik Frey , Helma Gautier and Erika Pluhar
expenditure
- Arthur Schnitzler: Masks and Miracles. Novellas. S. Fischer Verlag, Berlin 1912. Contains The Shepherd's Flute , The Death of the Bachelor , The Murderer , The Dead Gabriel , The Redegonda's Diary and The Triple Warning .
- Arthur Schnitzler: Lieutenant Gustl. Stories 1892–1907. With an afterword by Michael Scheffel . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-10-073552-8
literature
- Peter Sprengel: History of German-Language Literature 1900–1918. C. H. Beck, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-406-52178-9
Web links
- First print on ANNO
- The text at Zeno.org
Individual evidence
- ↑ Arthur Schnitzler: Lieutenant Gustl. Stories 1892–1907. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-10-073552-8 , p. 523.
- ^ Peter Sprengel: History of German-Language Literature 1900–1918. C. H. Beck, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-406-52178-9 , p. 237.