New Year's Eve

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Title: New Year's Eve
Genus: One act
Original language: German
Author: Arthur Schnitzler
Publishing year: 1901
people
  • Agathe
  • Emil

New Year's Eve is a one-act play in dialogue form by Arthur Schnitzler . It first appeared in the magazine "Jugend" in 1901, No. 8.

action

“New Year's Eve” is about a woman who came to terms with her bourgeois life in the upper class of Arthur Schnitzlers in Vienna at the beginning of the 20th century. She preferred security, jewelry and fur to the fleeting happiness. She finds a younger listener who brings the past back, brings her memories to life. She is half mother, half possible lover for the young man with whom she stands alone at the window of the elegant drawing room and looks out at the snow-covered bushes and bare trees of the park.

background

In many of his plays, Schnitzler showed the breaking of man against convention, against the limits of bourgeois moral codes. In “New Year's Eve” (1900) too, the game is developed from the tension between illusion and disillusionment. "New Year's Eve" is a dramatic conversation between a young man and a married woman in which she tells of a friend who used the freedom of New Year's Eve to go to the Prater with her lover , but an hour later she was back with hers Guests is. The young man now thinks she is really talking about herself, but she replies:

Agathe: You are definitely wrong. For the rest, it doesn't matter - whether your own or someone else's past - it's far.
Emil: But it can come again.
Agathe: What do you think of? Nothing will come back.

The sensuous people of the Renaissance (in the concurrently created The Veil of Beatrice ) and those of Schnitzler's turn of the century have a lot in common in their individuality: They are connoisseurs and they dream. "That's why there are only parties as long as you are young tomorrow", it says in "New Year's Eve".

Dagny Servaes on a photograph by Alexander Binder

Performances

The premiere is not documented. The play was performed in 1926 under the direction of Paul Kalbeck in a New Year's Eve revue program in the Theater in der Josefstadt , with Egon Friedell as the emcee. The main roles were played by Dagny Servaes and Hans Thimig .

review

Schnitzler shows the interlocking of reality, memory and history, which he then expresses even more clearly in the puppet cycle , wrote Max Haberich . "Ever since he saw an actor come up from the stage in his parents' box as a child, he has been fascinated by the blurring of boundaries of perception, whereby his interest in the human psyche naturally also plays a role." Robert Waissenberger praised the motifs of memory and imagination Episodes were brilliantly varied in “New Year's Eve” (1900).

filming

The story was filmed in 1977 by Hajo Gies and Douglas Sirk under the title New Year's Eve - A Dialogue as an 18-minute short film with Hanna Schygulla and Christian Berkel in the leading roles.

Book editions

  • The dramatic works . Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer 1962.
  • Beatrice's Veil: Dramas 1899–1900 . Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag 1999 ISBN 978-3-596-11504-4

literature

  • Giuseppe Farese: Arthur Schnitzler: A life in Vienna 1862-1931. Munich: CH Beck, 1999, ISBN 3-406-45292-2 / 3-406-45292-2
  • Schnitzler Handbook: Life - Work - Effect , edited by Christoph Jürgensen, Wolfgang Lukas, Michael Scheffel. JB Metzler Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-476-02448-0

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Georgette Boner: Arthur Schnitzler's women figures . Winterthur, 1930
  2. ↑ Elisabeth Läufer in: Skeptiker des Lichts. Douglas Sirk and his films, Frankfurt a. M., 1987
  3. ↑ Heinz Rieder: Arthur Schnitzler: the dramatic work. Bergland Verlag, 1973
  4. ↑ Program poster
  5. ↑ Max Haberich: Arthur Schnitzler: Anatom des Fin de Siècle . Kremayr and Scheriau 2017. ISBN 978-3-218-01064-1
  6. ↑ Robert Waissenberger Anatol's Years: Examples from the time before the turn of the century: Hermesvilla, Lainzer Tiergarten, April 11, 1981 to March 14, 1982 . Self-published by the Museums of the City of Vienna, 1981
  7. ↑ New Year's Eve at HfF Munich
  8. ↑ New Year's Eve - A Dialogue in the Internet Movie Database (English)