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Karl Schönherr
1867–1943
A doctor by training and a dramatist by vocation, he became known for vivid plays about Tyrolean rural life and for bringing regional speech and hard moral conflicts to the stage. His work helped make him a notable voice in Austrian literature in the early 20th century.
2 Audiobooks
Deutsche Humoristen, 8. Band (von 8)
by Otto Julius Bierbaum, Gorch Fock, Rudolf Presber, Wilhelm Schäfer, Karl Schönherr, Ludwig Thoma
Der Weibsteufel: Drama in fünf Akten
by Karl Schönherr
About the author
Born in Axams, Tyrol, in 1867, Karl Schönherr studied medicine and worked as a physician before devoting himself more fully to writing. He is remembered chiefly as an Austrian dramatist whose plays often drew on the people, language, and landscapes of the Tyrol.
His best-known work includes Glaube und Heimat (Faith and Homeland), and he gained a reputation for serious, realistic dramas that explored social pressure, religion, and life in rural communities. Reference sources describe his writing as powerful and closely connected to dialect drama and naturalism.
Schönherr died in Vienna in 1943. Today he is mainly remembered for the way he combined a medical observer’s eye with a dramatist’s feel for tension, character, and place.