Maria Reinhard

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Maria Reinhard around 1895

Maria Theresia Reinhard (born March 13, 1871 in Vienna ; † March 18, 1899 ibid) (also Marie Reinhard, nickname 'Mizi') was an Austrian singing teacher and actress. From 1894 until her death she was in a relationship with Arthur Schnitzler , who processed elements of this relationship in his literary works.

Life

Maria Reinhard was born as the third of four children of the civil servant Karl Reinhard and his wife Therese Riss, daughter of the Neulerchenfeld cattle dealer Johann Riss. In 1874, his father switched from civil service to the private sector and rose through the position of authorized signatory of the Neuberg-Mariazeller union to deputy general secretary of the Austrian Alpine Mining Society. The family moved from the Viennese suburb to the inner city and finally to the vicinity of the Hofburg and the opera. Little is known about Maria Reinhard's childhood and adolescence, and especially about schooling. She was able to read books in English and French and mentions feminist literature among her readings. An engagement at seventeen or eighteen years old breaks off after three years. As a result, she fell into depression and was placed in a psychiatric institution for a long time. In 1896 she must have started acting training in order to be able to earn a living. She died in Vienna on March 18, 1899. After the entry in the death registers of the Augustinian parish, Maria Reinhard died of peritonitis. On March 20, she was buried in the central cemetery. On July 25, 2014 the City of Vienna declared the grave (Group 71 B Row 20, No. 68) a historical grave and a place of remembrance and took over its care for the duration of the cemetery.

Maria Reinhard around 1898

Relationship with Arthur Schnitzler

In July 1894 she consulted Schnitzler's practice, from which a love affair developed. While she might have assumed a marriage, Schnitzler's no intention to do so can be proven, and pregnancy in the spring of 1897 did not change anything. The child was born on September 24th in Mauer near Vienna . In February 1899 there was another pregnancy. In March 1899, she died as Schnitzler on May 25, 1903 against Mary Reinhard's sister, Caroline Burger, "at a vorhervermutheten by no sign App." ( Appendicitis ). The treating doctors were Julius Schnitzler and Ludwig Mandl , Arthur Schnitzler's brother and cousin. Schnitzler paid the funeral expenses. That Schnitzler was close to her death can be inferred from the suspension of diary entries for several weeks, but also from letters and the constant dealings with the Reinhard family.

Theories

In 2014, the private scholar Rolf-Peter Lacher published a study on Schnitzler's love affairs in his first publication. In it he evaluated archival documents in the Schnitzler estate in the German Literature Archive in Marbach and historical documents. He came to the conclusion that Reinhard had died of an illegally performed abortion, the sad culmination of many years of cruelty and torment of the author. His argumentation combines the study of sources with the biographical interpretation of works. The book has so far not been taken into account by academic Schnitzler research or has been rejected. On the other hand, it received appreciative reviews from “non-specialist” reviewers.


Maria Reinhard's grave

literature

By Arthur Schnitzler

  • Arthur Schnitzler: Arthur Schnitzler to Marie Reinhard (1896), Modern Austrian Literature, Vol. 10, No. 3/4, pp. 23-68, 1977.
  • Arthur Schnitzler: Letters 1875–1912. ed. v. Nickl, Therese u. Schnitzler, Heinrich, Frankfurt a. M., 1981.
  • Arthur Schnitzler's diary 1879–1931. with the participation of Peter Michael Braunwarth, Susanne Pertlik, Konstanze Fliedl and Reinhard Urbach ed. v. Werner Welzig , Vienna 1987-2000.
  • Arthur Schnitzler: Youth in Vienna . Ed. V. Therese Nickl and Heinrich Schnitzler. Foreword by Friedrich Torberg . Vienna, Munich, Zurich: Molden 1968.
  • Arthur Schnitzler: The dream diary 1875-1931. ed. v. Peter Michael Braunwarth and Leo A. Lensing, Göttingen 2012.

About Maria Reinhard

  • Rolf-Peter Lacher: Man is a beast: Anna Heeger, Maria Chlum, Maria Reinhard and Arthur Schnitzler. Königshausen & Neumann, Würzburg 2014.

Web links

  • Neuberg-Mariazeller union: [4]
  • Austrian Alpine Mining Society: [5]
  • Advertisement in the Neue Freie Presse: [6]

Individual evidence

  1. Baptismal Book - 01-54 | 03., Landstrasse - St. Rochus | Vienna, rk. Archdiocese (eastern Lower Austria and Vienna) | Austria | Matricula Online. Retrieved January 15, 2020 .
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  4. Title: Hedwig Dohm: Sibilla Dalmar, 1896. George Moore: Esther Waters, 1894. George Egerton: Discords, 1894. Bracco, Roberto, Untreu, translated by Otto Eisenschütz, Berlin undated
  5. Schnitzler, Diary 1893–1902, October 18, 1894 and January 29, 1896
  6. Schnitzler, Diary 1893–1902, October 13, 1896
  7. entry v. August 11, 2014 https://www.facebook.com/eMUVS/
  8. Arthur Schnitzler, Diary 1893–1902, March 13, 1895. He mocks her as having fallen in March because she had first sexual intercourse in March 1895.
  9. In the birth and baptismal register of the parish of St. Erhard in Mauer the following is entered: "September 24, 1897 Hauptstrasse 68 stillborn child, mother Maria Reinhard, single, Catholic (allegedly) obstetrician Dr. Kühne" On the examination slip, Kühne noted as the cause of death : " Breech birth , atelectasis ."
  10. Schnitzler, Diary 1893–1902, February 2, 1899
  11. Arthur Schnitzler, Diary 1903–1908, May 25, 1903
  12. Fritz, Heidrun, personal bibliography of professors and lecturers of the I. and II. University Women's Clinic and the III. obstetric clinic in Vienna in the approximate period 1875–1905, Diss. Erlangen-Nürnberg 1971
  13. So far only his dissertation was published: Rolf-Peter Lacher: The integumental method in Middle High German epic. Frankfurt am Main u. a. 1988. Cf. Peil, Dietmar (1994): Review by: Rolf-Peter Lacher: The integumental method in Middle High German epic, Frankfurt am Main u. a. 1988. In: Germanic-Romanic monthly journal: GRM, Vol. 44: pp. 471–475 [3]
  14. (source)
  15. Reinhard Urbach : The poets lie. June 26, 2015, accessed October 13, 2016 .
  16. Müller, Martin Anton: New publications on Arthur Schnitzler . In: Studia Austriaca . tape 24 , 2016, p. 95-108 ( unimi.it ).
  17. http://www.krejsa-macmanus.eu/index.php?id=145/