To the big sausage

Data
Title:	To the big sausage
Genus:	Burlesque in one act
Original language:	German
Author:	Arthur Schnitzler
Publishing year:	1901/1904
Premiere:	March 8, 1901 (1st version), March 16, 1906
Place of premiere:	Überbrettl , Berlin (1st version), Theater in der Josefstadt , Vienna
Place and time of the action:	Vienna, present
people
	The director; The poet; The benevolent; The biting one; The naive one; A citizen; His wife; Second citizen; His two daughters; First scandal maker; Second scandal maker; The Count of Charolais; The master; A wrestler; A gentleman in the parquet; A stranger in a blue coat; Citizens, soldiers, waiters, children etc.; People in the puppet theater The Duke of Lawin.; The Duchess of Lawin.; The hero of this piece.; The sad friend.; The cheerful friend.; Liesl.; The gloomy clerk, her father.; A cousin of Brackenburg, her bridegroom.; The reasoning man.; A mute gentleman.; Another mute gentleman.; A dead girl.; A servant.; The death.;

Final vignette of the first print

To the big sausage is a burlesque in one act by Arthur Schnitzler , the first version of which was performed in 1901. It was first printed on Easter 1905 in the daily newspaper Die Zeit . As a result, he incorporated it as the third piece after The Puppeteer and The Great Cassian in the one-act cycle Marionetten , which was publishedin book formby S. Fischer in1906.

content

Both a puppet theater and spectators can be seen on the stage. The audience comment on the course of the puppet piece being played and prevent a tragic end by loudly asking for a happy one. The various levels of reality are further broken through with the appearance of the director and the poet as well as with the main characters from two contemporary plays by Schnitzler's friends: The Master from Hermann Bahr 's play of the same name and The Count of Charolais by Richard Beer-Hofmann . Finally, death occurs, which in the piece shown makes “who a doll, who a person” visible.

Emergence

The estate materials are kept in Arthur Schnitzler's estate in the Cambridge University Library in folder A 87. A first version of Marionetten, typewritten, is dated December 22, 1899. At the end, Schnitzler notes: “The whole as a marionette piece” ( Reinhard Urbach published this version in 1977 in drafted and rejected, pp. 269–288). On July 6, 1900, he prepared a plan for the makeover (published in the appendix to Drafted and Discarded, pp. 515-516). In addition, two typewritten versions have survived, one of which is dated “1901” and which is likely to contain the textual form of Wolzogens. In addition, there is a scene fragment in the folder A 87 (also attached to Urbach?).

expenditure

First printing: Die Zeit , April 23, 1905, Easter supplement, pp. 3–7.
First edition: Arthur Schnitzler: Marionettes . Three one-act plays. Berlin: S. Fischer 1906, pp. 98-148.
Genetic edition with preliminary stages and reading text: https://www.arthur-schnitzler.org
World humor. The laughing Germany. Eds. Roda-Roda and Theodor Etzel . Berlin / Leipzig 1910, pp. 119-133.
Arthur Schnitzler: Collected Works. 1922, III, pp. 231-267.
- Text of the Fischer 1922 edition for the Gutenberg project
Arthur Schnitzler: The dramatic works. First volume, S. Fischer, Berlin 1962, pp. 871-894.
- Text of the 1962 edition by Zeno
Finale and prelude. Vienna 1898–1914. Literature, fine arts, music. Edited by Otto Breicha and Gerhard Fritsch , Salzburg 1964, pp. 44–70.

literature

Hans-Peter Bayerdörfer: From conversation piece to sausage comedy. To Arthur Schnitzler's one-act plays. In: Yearbook of the German Schiller Society, vol. 16 (1972), pp. 516-575.
Hans-Peter Bayerdörfer: Marionettes. Three one-act plays. In: Christoph Jürgensen, Wolfgang Lukas, Michael Scheffel (Eds.): Schnitzler manual. Life - work - effect . Metzler, Stuttgart 2014, pp. 119–123.

Individual evidence

↑ Cf. Jutta Müller, Gerhard Neumann: The estate of Arthur Schnitzler. Directory of the in the Schnitzler archive of the University of Freiburg i.Br. material. With a foreword by Gerhart Baumann and an appendix by Heinrich Schnitzler: Directory of the estate material available in Vienna. Fink, Munich 1969, p. 50.

[1] Cf. Jutta Müller, Gerhard Neumann: The estate of Arthur Schnitzler. Directory of the in the Schnitzler archive of the University of Freiburg i.Br. material. With a foreword by Gerhart Baumann and an appendix by Heinrich Schnitzler: Directory of the estate material available in Vienna. Fink, Munich 1969, p. 50.

Data
Title:	To the big sausage
Genus:	Burlesque in one act
Original language:	German
Author:	Arthur Schnitzler
Publishing year:	1901/1904
Premiere:	March 8, 1901 (1st version), March 16, 1906
Place of premiere:	Überbrettl , Berlin (1st version), Theater in der Josefstadt , Vienna
Place and time of the action:	Vienna, present
people
The director The poet The benevolent The biting one The naive one A citizen His wife Second citizen His two daughters First scandal maker Second scandal maker The Count of Charolais The master A wrestler A gentleman in the parquet A stranger in a blue coat Citizens, soldiers, waiters, children etc. People in the puppet theater The Duke of Lawin. The Duchess of Lawin. The hero of this piece. The sad friend. The cheerful friend. Liesl. The gloomy clerk, her father. A cousin of Brackenburg, her bridegroom. The reasoning man. A mute gentleman. Another mute gentleman. A dead girl. A servant. The death.