Fair game
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| Title: | Free wild |
| Genus: | Play in three acts |
| Original language: | German |
| Author: | Arthur Schnitzler |
| Publishing year: | 1898 |
| Premiere: | November 3, 1896 |
| Place of premiere: | Deutsches Theater Berlin , Berlin |
| Place and time of the action: | A small seaside resort not too far from Vienna, present [1896] |
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Freiwild is a play in three acts by Arthur Schnitzler , which was premiered on November 3, 1896 at the Deutsches Theater Berlin under Otto Brahm . The text was published two years later by S. Fischer in Berlin.
The wealthy citizen Paul Rönning protests against the dueling code that was valid in Austria-Hungary at the time. He wants to live and not be fair game for the contentious, arrogant Mr. Karinski, a first lieutenant in the cavalry. Haudegen Karinski, who feels like someone “who is allowed more than the others”, is furious and vigilante justice on the civilian.
time and place
The piece is set in a small seaside resort near Vienna at the end of the 19th century.
content
Paul Rönning's friends agree - the young actress Anna Riedel is Paul's lover. Rönning disagrees. It is a flirt. The theater director says he has an easy game with his naive. He announces Anna in writing and offers her continued employment for less in his "art institute". Anna, although dependent on the money, does not go into the predatory blackmail. But she confesses to Paul: "If you are rushed for a long time, you eventually get tired!"
First Lieutenant Karinski, a gambler and debt maker, an officer who cannot cope with the "eternal peace time", tries repeatedly to get Anna, but is repeatedly turned away. When the daring lieutenant invited the actress to dinner in writing and received a rejection, he embarrassed himself both with his officers and with the civilians. Karinski's anger is directed against his rival Rönning. He taunts incessantly, provokes him and is finally slapped in public by Paul. Rönning rejects the following duel request. He doesn't want to hit himself “with a rag”. The friends turn away from Rönning. Because someone who doesn't want to beat himself is no longer a gentleman. Anna, who wants to try her professional luck in Vienna, asks Rönning to come with her. He promises and proposes to her. Anna refuses at first because she doesn't love him at all. Immediately afterwards Anna changes her mind. The couple want to stay together for life.
The opposing party makes it clear to Rönning that he will ruin Karinski as an officer if he does not fight with him. Then it turns out that Paul has a lot of honor in his body: he won't go to Vienna. Rönning stays. The theater director offers Anna, a naive, for whom the audience duels, more fee. Anna, who was terminated in writing, refuses. She storms Rönning to go to Vienna. He doesn't want to flee cowardly and is shot by Karinski.
Self-testimony
- "It is not about the duel, but the compulsion to duel."
reception
- Schnitzler after visiting the film adaptation mentioned below: “The film is passable; but in a completely wrong landscape ... relocated ... Evelyn Holt quite good, boring; Kastner (Karinski) monotonous; otherwise all good average. "
- Wolf explains the term fair game. In the play, they are actresses and refusal to duel.
- Social criticism: Citizen Rönning appears fearless in the final. On the other hand, Karinski, an officer in the Danube Monarchy, looks unsympathetic.
- Perlmann: The internal motivation of the characters in the play is insufficient.
- The end of Rönning, the hero, almost seems like that of a suicide.
- The play was only performed in Vienna in February 1898. "Militarists" would have prevented the premiere in the Danube metropolis. In the Habsburg Monarchy , the crime of duels would have been tolerated.
- The play is not one of the author's successful plays.
Performances
The seldom performed piece was performed in 1974 at the Vienna Volkstheater in a cycle of rarely performed early works by Schnitzler, directed by Gustav Manker . Cast: Kitty Speiser (Anna Riedel, Naive), Eugen Stark (Dr. Albert Wellner, doctor), Peter Wolsdorff (Paul Rönning), Rudolf Strobl (director of the summer theater), Brigitte Swoboda (Pepi Fischer, Soubrette), Heinz Petters (Poldi Grehlinger), Wolfgang Dauscha (Finke, director), Renate Olarova (Käthchen Schütz, 2nd lover), Walter Langer (Enderle, comedian)
filming
- Fair game . Director: Forrest Holger-Madsen . Silent film Germany 1928, Hegewald film. With Jesta Berg , Gerd Briese , Günther Hadank , Max Hansen , Evelyn Holt and Bruno Kastner .
literature
- source
- Arthur Schnitzler: Fair game. Play in three acts p. 157-230 in Heinz Ludwig Arnold (Ed.): Arthur Schnitzler: The lonely way. Time pieces 1891–1908. With an afterword by Hermann Korte . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1961 (2001 edition), ISBN 3-10-073558-7 , 525 pages
- First edition
- Arthur Schnitzler: Fair game. Play in three acts . S. Fischer, Berlin 1898, 158 pages.
- Secondary literature
- Michaela L. Perlmann: Arthur Schnitzler. Metzler Collection, Vol. 239. Stuttgart 1987, ISBN 3-476-10239-4 , 195 pages
- Peter Sprengel : History of German-Language Literature 1870–1900. From the founding of the empire to the turn of the century . CH Beck, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-406-44104-1
- Giuseppe Farese: Arthur Schnitzler. A life in Vienna. 1862-1931. Translated from the Italian by Karin Krieger . CH Beck Munich 1999. 360 pages, ISBN 3-406-45292-2 . Original: Arthur Schnitzler. Una vita a Vienna. 1862-1931. Mondadori, Milan 1997
- Gero von Wilpert : Lexicon of world literature. German Authors A-Z . Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-520-83704-8 , p. 555, 2nd column, 25th Zvu 698 pages
- Claudia Wolf: Arthur Schnitzler and the film. Meaning. Perception. Relationship. Implementation. Experience. Dr. phil. Dissertation from August 2, 2006, Universitätsverlag Karlsruhe (TH), 2006, ISBN 978-3-86644-058-6 , 198 pages.
- Jacques Le Rider : Arthur Schnitzler or The Vienna Belle Époque . Translated from the French by Christian Winterhalter. Passagen Verlag, Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-85165-767-8 , 242 pages.
Web links
- The text of the piece at the Bielefeld University Library .
- Text of the short meeting at Sprengel.
Individual evidence
- ↑ On the history of the performances of the piece (PDF; 159 kB)
- ^ Korte in der Quelle, p. 516, 7th Zvu
- ↑ Source, p. 523, third entry
- ↑ Source, p. 182, 9. Zvo
- ↑ Quoted in Wolf, p. 84, 7th Zvu
- ↑ Quoted in Wolf, p. 83, 1. Zvu
- ^ Wolf, p. 81, 17. Zvo
- ^ Korte in the afterword of the source, p. 517, 11. Zvo
- ↑ Perlmann, p. 65, 13. Zvo
- ^ Sprengel, p. 474 below
- ↑ Le Rider, p. 97, 17. Zvo
- ↑ Le Rider, p. 98, 1. Zvo
- ↑ Farese, p. 71, 14. Zvo
- ↑ Quoted in Wolf, p. 115/116: During Schnitzler's lifetime there were five film adaptations: Liebelei (1914 and 1927), Medardus (1923), Freiwild (1928) and Fräulein Else (1929).