Traumnovelle

Geschrieben von Arthur Schnitzler

Erzählt von Markus Stolberg

Mit der Traumnovelle erscheint jetzt bei uns diewohl bekannteste Novelle Schnitzlers. Viel gelesen und häufig verfilmt, zuletzt von Stanley Kubrick als "Eyes Wide Shut" ist sie auch heute noch ein extrem modernes und verstörendes Stück Literatur.
Es ist die Geschichte des jungen Arztes Fridolin und seiner Frau Albertine. Ein wohlsituiertes Wiener Ehepaar mit einer wohlgeratenen kleinen Tochter. Auf den ersten Blick ein ganz heile Welt. Doch schon im ersten Gespräch beider werden kleine Risse in der Fassade sichtbar. Als Fridolin später am Abend zu einem Sterbenden gerufen wird, gerät er in eine Nacht vielfältiger und verwirrender Erlebnisse.

Die Lesung stammt vom österreichischen Schauspieler Markus Stolberg, der für und bereits "Kleider machen Leute" von Gottfried Keller eingelesen hat, hier zum zweitenmal eine Schnitzlernovelle für uns liest.

Neben der Lesung ist der komplette Text, ein Glossar und eine Kurzbiografie Schnitzlers als PDF eBook enthalten.

• Sprache: Deutsch
• Herausgeber: HörGut Verlag Audio
• Erscheinungsdatum: 24. Okt. 2012
• ISBN: 9783864491177

Arthur Schnitzler

Arthur Schnitzler (* 15. Mai 1862 in Wien, Kaisertum Österreich; † 21. Oktober 1931 ebenda, Republik Österreich) war ein österreichischer Arzt, Erzähler und Dramatiker. Er gilt als Schriftsteller als einer der bedeutendsten Vertreter der Wiener Moderne. (Wikipedia)

Rezensionen für Traumnovelle

[lovinglit · Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen]

Vienna, a long time ago. A respectable doctor has a series of talks with his wife about their dreams, past likes/loves and what ifs. This brings about disquiet and mistrust between them and the doctor then goes about sabotaging the relationship in retaliation. That he is tempted by the flesh is a side-issue for the good doctor. He still manages to in fact blame his wife and her wayward and callous dream for his actions. Interesting. I wonder what Freud would have to say about all this- he was friend to the author. Fortunately for me, while reading the book, I was able to see it in the context of its ancient and unenlightened times so could forgive the sexist attitudes and just go with the story. I read it as an interesting slice of time and place.

[ireadthereforeiam · Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen]

Vienna, a long time ago. A respectable doctor has a series of talks with his wife about their dreams, past likes/loves and what ifs. This brings about disquiet and mistrust between them and the doctor then goes about sabotaging the relationship in retaliation. That he is tempted by the flesh is a side-issue for the good doctor. He still manages to in fact blame his wife and her wayward and callous dream for his actions. Interesting. I wonder what Freud would have to say about all this- he was friend to the author. Fortunately for me, while reading the book, I was able to see it in the context of its ancient and unenlightened times so could forgive the sexist attitudes and just go with the story. I read it as an interesting slice of time and place.

[dilettante1890 · Bewertung: 5 von 5 Sternen]

Amazing, enveloping book! The book on which the Kubrick film Eyes Wide Shut was based.

[hadriantheblind · Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen]

Freud meets Chekhov in decadent Vienna. Dreams, repression, love, lust, marriage, all that good stuff. Kubrick made a movie out of it. If this doesn't grab your attention, I'm not sure if I know you anymore.

[meditationesmartini · Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen]

Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut made a real impression on me as a wee sprout--I remember coming out of it with a pile of tortuous metaphors concerning what my recently-become-ex-girlfriend Erin and I could have done to manage our feelings and fears, the most salient as well as the most embarrassing of which had to do with surfboards and just riding the wave, bra. What I didn't realize, watching crazy, WASPy old Tom Cruise mug his way through what should have been a haunting role, was that the source material--Arthur Schnitzler's Dream Story--wasn't really for people like me at all--young, well-adjusted, healthy members of the suburban dominant culture. No, this is a book about outsiderness; more specifically Jewishness; more specifically still, bourgeois Viennese trying-to-pass Jewishness in the overcultivated, brutal, imperial-headbirth era of decline presided over by filthy, genial mayor Karl Lueger, some of whose best friends were Jews, as you may have heard. This is a story about relationships, jealousy, recognizing the humanity of the other and what you do with that, and it has a surprisingly sweet ending; but it is also a story of exclusion, fear, colliding inferiority complexes on every street corner, and Schnitzler signals strongly that that sweet ending will turn out to be false or at least temporary--and yikes, you think, Jews of Vienna? Temporary any implied happy ending certainly was.

[lieslmayerson · Bewertung: 2 von 5 Sternen]

This novella is what Eyes Wide Shut is loosely based on. In preparation for Kubrick's movie, given I was a in a huge Kubrick phase and could not wait for it, I decided to seek out this book. Good and enjoyable, I would recommend it and found it to be a nice companion to the movie.

[fpdc_1 · Bewertung: 3 von 5 Sternen]

This is the portuguese translation of the german original Traumnovelle. The story was the basis of the last film by Stanley Kubrick, Eyes wide shut, and the book, forbidden in Nazi Germany, like the remaining works by Schnitzler, is a classic of 20th Century literature in spite of its tiny size. A poignant psycological novel about the non-consumated (real or imagined) infidelities of a Viennese middle class young couple.

[hearthewindsing · Bewertung: 4 von 5 Sternen]

"Of course, one remembers some dreams, but there must be others one completely forgets, of which nothing remains but a mysterious mood, a curious numbness."Atmospheric and haunting! Schnitzler's novella is a perfect Dream (or dream-like) Story. He doesn't create the kind of dream world that is engineered by hanging two moons from the ceiling. His world only consists of realistic things and events and yet it is shadowed by something intangible and unsettling. He simply colors the world his characters inhabit with a hypnotic quality that seduces the reader into the dream-scape. And how subtly he does that! Little details - one elusive gesture, one innocent-looking piece of the setting, one fleeting thought - all come together beautifully to create the atmosphere.

The novella explores the intimate life of a married couple. Schnitzler digs into the psyche of his characters by gently leading them to a space where their hidden thoughts, desires and anxieties find the freedom to manifest themselves. He lets the characters assess what constitutes truth and reality for them. And once the spell breaks, they can go back to continue living the illusion of real life they create for themselves.
"I have gained the impression that you have learned through intuition — though actually as a result of sensitive introspection — everything that I have had to unearth by laborious work on other persons." - Freud in a letter to Schnitzler (Wikipedia).Whether the events in the novella happen for real or was Schnitzler only staging an illusion - I will leave that for you to decide through your own reading. Perhaps it won't even matter.
"Just as sure as I am that the reality of one night, let alone that of a whole lifetime, is not the whole truth."
"And no dream," he said with a slight sigh, "is entirely a dream." Best read in a sitting or two.