19.
1,1
Leo Berg, in forceful words vrote: „Unter Leben scheint Schnitzler
nur noch das sexuelle Leben zu verstehen. Der Inhalt dieses Schau-
spiels: erster Akt - Aufschrei der Vagins, zweiter Akt – beim
flotten Leutnant, - dritter Akt - Katzenjammer!" (74)
The amphasis placed upon the sexual again gave theoritics
cause for dissproving Komtesse Mizzi. This play, as Specht says,
was probably not meant too seriously by the author. Specht calls
it "ein Atemholen vor neuem Sichsammeln." (75) Otto Neumann-Hofer
said: "die Polyandrie soll als gleichberechtigt mit der Polygamie
erwiesen werden”. (76) and Fritz Telmann (77) echoes the cry that
"enough is enough”.
The Raimund Blise was awarded Schnitzler for his drama Der
Junge Medardus (78), the prolong to which was published in 1910 in
Die neue Rundschau.(79) The Viennese premiere took place on
November 24, 1910 at the Burgtheater, but the drame was not put on
the board in Berlin until after 1914. The only accounts of Der
Junge Medardus that found their way into Berlin perudical litera
ture were the dea reporte from Vienna. They were all favorable,
Ludwig Hirschfeld writing: "Der Medardus wird vor ausverkauften
Häusern gegeben und erweist sich als der stärkste Erfolg, den das
Burgtheater seit langem gehabt hat.“ (80)
minner. (84)
When Anatol was produced in Berlin in 1910, it received very
little space in the periodicals under discussion. That the appella-
had its premiere in Berlin
74.
Das Literarische Scho, VIII, 962, April 1. 1906.
75.
Op. cit., 299.
76.
Nord und Süd, C.L. 478. February, 1912.
hare et
77.
Das Literarische Scho. XI. 671. February 1. 1909.
78.
See Das Literarische Scho. XVI. 1086.
79.
Die Neue Kundschen, XXI. 1386-1415. October 1910.
80. Telhägen und Klassings Monatshefte. 108, Merch 1911.