Merry-Go-Round Der Reigen

by Otto Schenk, Arthur Schnitzler, Hans Brenner Gertraud Jesserer

$375 · Offered by Royal Books

Vienna: Lisa Film, 1973. Draft script for the 1973 West German film. Text in German. Based on Arthur Schnitzler's controversial 1897 play Reigen. A satire of the sexual and class mores of the late 1800s, not produced on stage until 1920, although published versions in various languages were available as early as 1900. With its frank sexual content and depictions of relationships across class and cultural lines, the play was immediately condemned as

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