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Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

Der Schatten, fin-de-siècle, Vienna, Marie Eugenie delle Grazie

College

Humanities

Department

German and Russian

Abstract

Der Schatten, a drama written by Marie Eugenie delle Grazie (1864-1931) premiered in 1901 in the Vienna Burgtheater, the most prestigious stage at the time. Der Schatten is a rich play full of topics that are significant for fin-de-siècle Vienna. These contemporary themes include aspects such as psychology, art, and human relationships, with which delle Grazie contributes unique insights to the ongoing discourse at the time. Although the author received the prominent Bauernfeldpreis award, which was also given to other leading authors like Hermann Hesse und Arthur Schnitzler, who are still well known today, she has been largely forgotten. Reasons for this negligence of delle Grazie and her drama are that Der Schatten was published only for a German speaking audience, and that historically, the works of women tended to be forgotten after the lifetime of the author. My goal was to show the importance of this text, and thereby direct literary attention to it. I visited Vienna to do additional research, and then write a commentary on Der Schatten.

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