Doctor Graesler, spa doctor

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Doctor Gräsler, Badearzt is a story written in 1914 by Arthur Schnitzler that appeared in the Berliner Tageblatt in late winter 1917 . S. Fischer published the book in the same year - also in Berlin.

Doctor Emil Gräsler, previously a ship's doctor on the oceans, wants to settle down as a lonely bachelor and ultimately chooses a middle path due to a lack of self-confidence.

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Doctor Gräsler, now 48 years old, no longer goes to sea, but spends the winters as a spa doctor on Lanzarote . After the suicide of his single sister Friederike, he spent the summer at home in Germany as a spa doctor in a spa town. There he met and fell in love with the 27-year-old Sabine Schleheim, daughter of a failed opera singer. Sabine was once supposed to become a singer at her father's request, but then she worked as a nurse. Her fiancé, a doctor, had died young.

Doctor Gräsler recognizes that Sabine is the woman for life, but he does not have the courage to stop her. Sabine does this in writing - she throws herself at him, as she puts it. Sabine thinks practically. Dr. Gräsler should buy and renovate the run-down sanatorium in the small spa town. Sabine's father might want to support the doctor financially. Dr. Graesler, the eccentric, egoist and philistine fled to his hometown before Sabine's application. There he wants to discuss the purchase of the sanatorium with his old friend, the lawyer Böhlinger. Böhlinger informs Gräsler that Friederike's inheritance is enough to enable the medical professional to live a modest, carefree life without professional stress.

Dr. Gräsler approaches Katharina Rebner. He lives with the very young saleswoman, daughter of a post office clerk, for a while.

Dr. Gräsler's medical assistance is required in an emergency. In his father's house, the young widow Sommer's little daughter falls ill with scarlet fever .

An attempt by Dr. Graesler's asking for good weather from the beloved Sabine fails. The despiser is bitterly disappointed in Katharina, Sabine and Friederike. Katharina left him and Friederike, it turns out, had behind Dr. Graesler's back one amorous adventure after another in her youth and on top of that cheated on her groom Böhlinger.

Katharina dies of scarlet fever. The doctor had obviously infected them. Dr. Graesler marries Mrs. Sommer. Winter is coming. The couple goes to Lanzarote with their children.

reception

  • Scheffel designates Dr. Graesler as inwardly weak and numb.
  • Sprengel describes the story of the " displacement artist " Dr. Graesler in short.
  • Schnitzler as a satirist: The strictness of the milieu portrayal in Dr. Gräsler compares Le Rider with Maupassant's novel Mont-Oriol .
  • Becker gives three sources for further study of the narrative (CEJ Brinson (1983), Peter von Haselberg (1981) and Ernest Henry von Nardroff (1968)).

filming

The story was filmed

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literature

First printing

  • Arthur Schnitzler: Doctor Graesler, spa doctor. In: Berliner Tageblatt, February 10, 1917 - March 18, 1917 ( online )

First edition

  • Arthur Schnitzler: Doctor Graesler, spa doctor. Narrative. S. Fischer Verlag Berlin 1917. (221 pages. Softcover, colored cover drawing, online )

Genetic edition online

expenditure

  • Arthur Schnitzler: Doctor Graesler, spa doctor. Narrative. Fischer Taschenbücher 9407. Revised new edition of the Narrative Writings 1989. ISBN 978-3-596-29407-7

Secondary literature

  • Peter Sprengel : History of German-language literature 1900 - 1918. Munich 2004. 924 pages, ISBN 3-406-52178-9
  • Gero von Wilpert : Lexicon of world literature. German Authors A - Z . S. 555, right column, 14. Zvu Stuttgart 2004. 698 pages, ISBN 3-520-83704-8
  • Sabina Becker: Dr. Graesler, spa doctor. "Mental equilibrium" between saint and "sweet girl" . S. 159–171 in Hee-Ju Kim and Günter Saße (eds.): Interpretations. Arthur Schnitzler. Dramas and stories. Reclams Universal Library No. 17352. Stuttgart 2007. 270 pages, ISBN 978-3-15-017532-3
  • Jacques Le Rider : Arthur Schnitzler or The Vienna Belle Époque . Translated from the French by Christian Winterhalter. Passagen Verlag Vienna 2007. 242 pages, ISBN 978-3-85165-767-8

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Scheffel in the epilogue: Arthur Schnitzler: Doctor Gräsler, spa doctor. P. 155–268 in Heinz Ludwig Arnold (Ed.): Arthur Schnitzler: Casanovas Heimfahrt. Stories 1909–1917. With an afterword by Michael Scheffel . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1999, p. 485, 8. Zvo
  2. ↑ Sprengel, p. 241, 13. Zvu
  3. ↑ Le Rider, p. 88, 10th Zvu
  4. ↑ Becker, Bibliography, p. 171