Lively hours (one act)

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Living Hours is a play in one act by Arthur Schnitzler . It is the first and, at the same time, eponymous one-act play in the Lebendige Stunden (1902) cycle . The text appeared - shortly before the world premiere on January 4, 1902 - in December 1901 in the Neue Deutsche Rundschau in Berlin.

A writer learns that his mother killed his mother to help him overcome a creative crisis.

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Heinrich's mother, court councilor, died at the age of 53. Heinrich, the young writer, has had a writer's inhibition for two or three years . The 60-year-old retired civil servant Anton Hausdorfer, Heinrich's fatherly friend, also mourns the loss of his beloved friend. Heinrich thinks back to his boyhood. The young man is unsure whether to sympathize with Anton's grief. Anton now reveals to him that the mother died because of the only son. Heinrich cannot believe the enormity. Anton insists on his claim. The court councilor could not see how her incurable illness had disrupted her son's writing profession. When Heinrich has recovered, he makes up his mind to lend duration to those “living hours” of the mother, namely by writing. Anton remains skeptical and also thinks back. Heinrich's “whole writing” is nothing compared to a single “living hour” of the beloved court councilor.

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  • The actor Wilhelm von Wymetal asked Schnitzler about Heinrich's nature. It's about the question of whether an author needs such drastic events as the death of a person to write something. Schnitzler's answer of May 13, 1902 can be found in the two-volume edition of the letter.
  • Sprengel calls the construction of the piece loose and Korte speaks of " tabloid drama ".

Radio plays

Entries 43 and 44 in: Radio plays ( Memento from December 5, 2008 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

literature

expenditure

  • First printing: Arthur Schnitzler: Lebendige Stunden. One act. Neue Deutsche Rundschau, vol. 12, issue 12, December 1901, pp. 1297–1306. 
  • Stage manuscript: Arthur Schnitzler: Lebendige Stunden. Acting in 1 act . Berlin 1901.
  • First edition: Arthur Schnitzler: Lebendige Stunden. Four one-act plays. Also contains: The woman with the dagger - The last masks - Literature . S. Fischer Berlin 1902. Linen gold stamping. 160 pages
  • Arthur Schnitzler: Lively Hours. Pp. 325–339 in Heinz Ludwig Arnold (ed.): Arthur Schnitzler: Reigen. The one-act. With an afterword by Hermann Korte . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1961 (edition 2000). 602 pages, ISBN 3-10-073557-9

Secondary literature

Contemporary

  • Hermann Bahr : Lebendige Stunden (Four characters by Arthur Schnitzler: "Lebendige Hours", "The Woman with the Dagger", "The Last Masks" and "Literature". Performed for the first time in the Carl Theater on May 6, 1902. First Presentation of the Berlin German Theater). In: Neues Wiener Tagblatt , vol. 36, no. 102, May 7, 1902, pp. 1-4. 
  • Hermann Bahr: Lebendige Stunden (four one-act plays: "Lebendige Stunden", "The Woman with the Dagger", "The Last Masks", "Literature" by Arthur Schnitzler. First performed at the Deutsches Volkstheater on March 14, 1903). In: Neues Wiener Tagblatt, vol. 37, no. 73, March 15, 1903, pp. 2–3. 

To the pieces

  • Reinhard Urbach : Schnitzler commentary on the narrative writings and dramatic works . Munich: Winkler 1974, pp. 169–176.

More general

  • 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
  • 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
  • Gero von Wilpert : Lexicon of world literature. German Authors A - Z . S. 555, 2nd column, 23. Zvu Stuttgart 2004. 698 pages, ISBN 3-520-83704-8

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Arthur Schnitzler: Letters 1875–1912 . Ed .: Therese Nickl and Heinrich Nickl. S. Fischer Verlag, Berlin 1981, p. 450-451 .
  2. ^ Sprengel, p. 452, 19th Zvu
  3. ↑ Hermann Korte: Afterword. In: Heinz Ludwig Arnold (ed.): Arthur Schnitzler: Reigen. The one-act. With an afterword by Hermann Korte . S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1961 (edition 2000), p. 596, 11. Zvu