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Chapters (8)
  1. Cover
  2. Title page
  3. Introduction
  4. For Further Reading
  5. Arthur Schnitzler: Key Dates
  6. La Ronde
  7. Characters
  8. 1. The Prostitute and the Soldier
1862 15 May: born in Vienna.
1871-9 Attends the Akademisches Gymnasium, Vienna. Passes final exams with honours. Enrols at the University of Vienna to study medicine.
1882-3 Military service as a medical assistant.
1885 Graduates; starts work as intern and assistant doctor at the university teaching hospital.
1886-8 Publication of his poems and aphorisms in the Deutsche Wochenschrift and An der schönen blauen Donau, as well as medical articles in the Wienere Medizinische Presse and the Internationale Klinische Rundschau.
1888 Visits Berlin and London for study. Becomes assistant to his father at the Allgemeine Wiener Poliklinik.
1889 Publication of his medical treatise On Functional Aphonia and its Treatment through Hypnosis and Suggestion. Begins relationship with Marie Glümer.
1892 Publication of the one-act play cycle Anatol.
1893 Death of his father. Resigns from the Poliklinik and starts a private practice. Premieres of the one-act play Farewell Supper (from Anatol) in Bad Ischl and The Fairy Tale at the Deutsches Volkstheater, Vienna. Begins relationship with the actress Adele Sandrock.
1894 Begins relationship with Marie Reinhard, one of his patients. Onset of deafness and tinnitus. Publication of Dying, his first prose work, in Neue Revue. Finishes writing the play Liebelei.
1895 Premiere of Liebelei at the Burgtheater, Vienna, with Adele Sandrock as Christine.
1896 Premiere of A Question Put to Fate from Anatol in Leipzig. Journey to Scandinavia. Visits Ibsen. 23 November: starts writing La Ronde.
1897 24 February: finishes La Ronde. Marie Reinhard bears their stillborn child.
1898 Premiere of various one-act plays from Anatol in Vienna, Leipzig and Berlin.
1899 Premiere of the one-act play The Green Cockatoo at the Burgtheater, Vienna. Death of Marie Reinhard. Meets the actress Olga Gussmann.
1900 La Ronde privately printed and distributed among his friends.
1901 Publication of the novel Lieutenant Gustl; in the ensuing scandal he is stripped of his army commission.
1902 Premiere of the cycle of one-act plays Living Hours at the Deutsches Theater, Berlin. Birth of his and Olga Gussman’s son Heinrich.
1903 Marries Olga. Publication of La Ronde.
1904 Premiere of The Lonely Way at the Deutsches Theater, Berlin. La Ronde banned in Germany.
1905 Publication of the Collected Novellas: The Greek Dancing Girl. Premiere of Intermezzo at the Burgtheater, Vienna.
1906 Premiere of The Summons of Life at the Lessing Theater, Berlin.
1907 Publication of the Collected Novellas: Souls in Twilight.
1908 Publication of the novel The Way Out Into the Open.
1909 Premiere of the one-act play Countess Mitzi at the Deutsches Volkstheater, Vienna. Birth of daughter Lili.
1910 Buys a large house in Vienna in which he lives until his death.
1911 Death of his mother. Premiere of The Vast Domain at the Burgtheater, Vienna, and various German theatres.
1912 Publication of Collected Works in two parts. Premiere of Professor Bernhardi at the Kleines Theater, Berlin. Premiere of La Ronde (in Hungarian) at the Uj Szinpad, Budapest.
1913 Publication of the novella Frau Beate and her Son.
1915 Premiere of the cycle of one-act plays Comedy of Words in Vienna, Darmstadt and Frankfurt.
1918 Publication of the novella The Return of Casanova. Austrian premiere of Professor Bernhardi at the Deutsches Volkstheater, Vienna.
1920 23 December: premiere of La Ronde (in German) at the Kleines Schauspielhaus, Berlin.
1921 1 February: Austrian premiere of La Ronde in the Kammerspiele of the Deutsches Volkstheater, Vienna. 17 February: Performances of La Ronde in Vienna prohibited as ‘a threat to law and order’. November: Trial in Berlin and acquittal of the director, actors and management of the Kleines Schauspielhaus. Divorces Olga.
1922 March: The ban in Germany on La Ronde is lifted.
1924 Premiere of Comedy of Seduction at the Burgtheater, Vienna. Publication of the short story Fräulein Else.
1925-6 Publication of the novel Dream Story.
1927 Publication of Book of Maxims and Doubts, Aphorisms and Fragments.
1928 Lili, his daughter, commits suicide. Publication of the novel Therese: A Chronicle of a Woman’s Life.
1929 Premiere of Wafted by Summer Breezes at the Deutsches Volkstheater, Vienna.
1931 Premiere of The Walk to the Fish Pond at the Burgtheater, Vienna. Publication of the novel Flight into Darkness. 21 October: dies.