biography
pronunciation:
[shnitsler]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1862–1931)
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| biography:
| Playwright and novelist, born in Vienna, Austria. He was a physician before he turned playwright, writing highly psychological, light-heartedly short plays and novels. They include his one-act play cycles Anatol (1893) and Reigen (1900, Merry-go-round, filmed as La Ronde, 1950). An exponent of fin-de-siecle Viennese life with its sexual repressions and social duplicity, he draws a picture of human deceit and the inferior role of women in society. |
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