The Lonely Way—Intermezzo—Countess Mizzie / Three Plays

by Arthur Schnitzler

Footnotes

THE LONELY WAY

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[ ¹ ] The Prater is at once the Central Park and the Coney Island of Vienna, plus a great deal more—a park with an area of 2,000 acres bounded by the Danube on one side and by the Danube Canal on the other, full of all kinds of amusement places.

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[ ² ] The place where the Turks fortified themselves before driven from Vienna by John Sobieski in 1683 is now a small park, "Türkenschanz-Park," located in Döbling, one of the northwestern quarters of Greater Vienna. Only a little ways south of this park, and overlooking it, stands the Astronomical Observatory, not far from which Schnitzler has been living for a number of years. Numerous references to localities in this play indicate that he has placed the Wegrat home in that very villa quarter of Währing, where he himself is so thoroughly at home.

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[ ³ ] A suburb near the western limits of Vienna and not far from the location indicated for the Wegrat home.

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[ ⁴ ] The palace of Mirabell is one of the sights of Salzburg, the city near the Bavarian border, where Felix's regiment was stationed. It is now used as a museum. The gardens adjoining it are of the formal type so dear to, and so characteristic of, the eighteenth century.