Schnitzler

[ shnits-ler; German shnits-luhr ]

noun

1. Ar·thur [ahr, -ther, ahr, -t, oo, r], 1862–1931, Austrian dramatist and novelist.

Schnitzler

/ ˈʃnɪtslər /

noun

1. SchnitzlerArthur18621931MAustrianTHEATRE: dramatistWRITING: novelist Arthur (ˈartʊr). 1862–1931, Austrian dramatist and novelist. His best-known works are Anatol (1893) a series of one-act plays, and Reigen (1900), both of which reveal his psychological insight and preoccupation with sexuality

Example Sentences

His daughter, Leigh Schnitzler, confirmed the death.

From New York Times

So far, the plot of “The Doctor,” Robert Icke’s adaptation of the 1922 play “Professor Bernhardi” by Arthur Schnitzler, aligns closely with the original, except that Bernhardi is a Viennese man in 1900 and Wolff a British woman today.

From New York Times

The production that opened on Wednesday at the Park Avenue Armory, directed by Icke and starring Juliet Stevenson, is less the exercise in Shavian moral argument that Schnitzler rather airily called a comedy than a tragic thought experiment about the failure of identity politics.

From New York Times

“The Doctor,” which opens Wednesday at the Park Avenue Armory in New York, is a reworking of Arthur Schnitzler’s 1912 drama, “Professor Bernhardi,” about a Jewish physician who refuses entry to a Roman Catholic priest trying to administer last rites to a patient dying from sepsis after an abortion.

From New York Times

There have been no cases of bird flu identified in people in Washington state, said Hannah Schnitzler, communicable disease epidemiologist with Washington state Department of Health.

From Seattle Times