Liebelei

Summary

1954 live BBC studio production of Arthur Schnitzler’s drama Liebelei.

Theatre play

Liebelei by Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931) [more information]

Play synopsis

A love affair between a young lieutenant and a musician’s daughter ends tragically when the lieutenant is killed in a duel, and the girl commits suicide.

Production history

The play was premiered in Vienna on 9 October 1895.

Date of transmission

Tuesday 15 June 1954

Time

8.50-9.50pm

Channel

BBC Television

Production company

BBC

Credits

Producer

Rudolph Cartier

Playwright

Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931)

Translator

Frank Marcus

Translator

Jacqueline Marcus

Designer

Lawrence [Laurence] Broadhouse

Cast

Derek Aylward	Theordore Kaiser
Gillian Barber	Lina
Joan Carol	Mrs Katherine Binder
Ian Colin	Colonel
Howell Davies
Paul Homer
Reginald Jessup
Wilfred [or Wilfrid] Lawson	Hans Weyring
Zena Marshall	Mitzi Schlager
Brian Moorehead
Orest[e] Orloff
Jeannette Sterke	Christine Weyring
Peter Wyngarde	Fritz Lobheimer
Count Theodore Zichy	Duel Referee

Additional details

Origination

Live from studio

Vision original

Monochrome

Extant status

No archival copy is known to exist.

Play tags

19th-century setting; Austrian drama

Print sources

Title

Radio Times, 11 June 1954 (Magazine)

Linking notes

listing, p. 26; article by Rudolph Cartier, ‘A Viennese Romance’, p. 15