# Lieutenant Schneidekind — Short Plays character guide

> Lieutenant Schneidekind in Short Plays by George Bernard Shaw.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Lieutenant Schneidekind, Schneidekind, Schneidekind Rising, Schneidekind Good God, God, Schneidekind Pointing

**First appearance:** 0043-the-inca-of-perusalem

## Snapshot

A German officer in The Inca of Perusalem who fields panicked telephone calls about a runaway Grand Duchess with weary, sardonic efficiency.

## Who they are

Lieutenant Schneidekind serves under General Strammfest, absorbing the General's alarm over the Grand Duchess Annajanska's elopement and defection to the Revolution. Where Strammfest rages and threatens, Schneidekind stays dryly practical, managing the telephone and the search with a soldier's impatience for hysteria. His calm amid the farce anchors the play's early satire of military and royal self-importance.

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