!!!Schönherr, Karl

b. Axams (Tyrol), Feb. 24, 1867, 
d. Vienna, March 15, 1943. Writer and physician. Studied 
philosophy and medicine in Vienna and Innsbruck, where he joined the  
"Jung-Tirol" movement; worked as a physician in Vienna until 
1905. S. at first wrote humorous poems in dialect and tales in the 
style of L.  Anzengruber and later turned to problem plays. His 
naturalistic dramas and tales are full of symbolic and expressive 
elements and are characterized by a very strong commitment to his 
Tyrolean homeland, its dialect and its traditional folkplays. Enjoyed 
great success with plays such as "Glaube und Heimat" (1910) or 
"Der Weibsteufel" (1914, made into a film in 1916 as "The 
She-Devil") as well as with productions at the Tyrolean 
Exl-Buehne theatre and the Vienna Burgtheater.

!Further works
Poems: Inntaler Schnalzer, 1895; Tiroler Marterln, 
1895. - Dramas: Der Judas von Tirol, 1897; Die Bildschnitzer, 1900; 
Karrnerleut, 1905; Familie, 1905 (with the title 
"Kindertragoedie", 1913); Erde, 1907; Der Sonnwendtag, 1913; Volk 
in Not, 1916; Frau Suitner, 1916; Narrenspiel des Lebens, 1918; Der 
Kampf, 1920; Es, 1923; Die Hungerblockade, 1925; Der Armendoktor, 
1927; Herr Doktor, haben Sie zu essen?, 1930; Passionsspiel, 1933; Die 
Fahne weht, 1937. - Narratives: Allerhand Kreuzkoepf, 1895; Caritas, 
1905; Aus meinem Merkbuch, 1911; Schuldbuch, 1913; Tiroler 
Bauernschwaenke, 1913. - Edition: Gesamtausgabe, ed. by V. K. 
Chiavacci, 3 vols., 1967-1974.

!Literature
W. Bortenschlager, Tiroler Drama und Dramatiker im 
20. Jahrhundert, 1982.



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