Jeffrey B. Berlin

Jeffrey B. Berlin (born January 7, 1946 in Philadelphia ) is an American literary scholar and Germanist .

Life

Berlin first studied chemistry before turning to German at Temple University in Philadelphia. There he obtained the Master of Arts in 1971 . In 1976 he was at the at State University of New York Binghamton with a comparison of the dramatic works of Henrik Ibsen and Arthur Schnitzler to Dr. phil. PhD. Scientific positions at various universities followed. Before he retired, he was Professor of Comparative Literature and University Dean in Philadelphia. Berlin is one of the prominent connoisseurs of German-language literature and Viennese fin de siècle . He is the author, editor and co-editor of literary books - mainly letter editions - and a large number of articles. Including Raoul Auernheimer , Richard Beer-Hofmann , Hermann Broch , Albert Einstein , Lion Feuchtwanger , Theodor Herzl , Hermann Hesse , Heinrich Eduard Jacob , Thomas Mann , Arthur Schnitzler, Franz Werfel , Carl Zuckmayer or Stefan Zweig . As a co-editor of the large "Stefan Zweig-Briefedition" of S. Fischer Verlag , Berlin enjoys an international reputation and is counted among the "deserving Zweig researchers" ( Donald A. Prater ). From 1976 to 1999 Berlin was part of the editorial team of Modern Austrian Literature . Berlin is a board member of the "International Stefan Zweig Society" in Salzburg and chairman of the research committee of the " Casa Stefan Zweig " in Petrópolis ( Brazil ). He lives with his wife Anne F. Berlin in Langhorne (PA) near Philadelphia.

Works and editorships (selection)

• The Unpublished Letters from Richard Beer-Hofmann to Hermann Bahr , with the Unpublished Letters between Beer-Hofmann and Theodor Herzl . In: Identity and Ethos. Festschrift for Sol Liptzin , ed. Mark Gelber (New York and Bern: Lang Verlag 1986), pp. 121-144.
• March 14, 1938: 'There is no more Austria.' Some Unpublished Correspondence between Franz Werfel, Alma Mahler Werfel and Ben Huebsch. in: Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte , 62, iv (1988), pp. 741–763. ISSN  0012-0936
• Together with D. Daviau and J. Johns: Unpublished Letters between Franz Werfel, Alma Mahler Werfel and Ben Huebsch: 1941–1946. In: Modern Austrian Literature , 24, ii (1991), pp. 123-200.
• Ephemeral, immortal. Heinrich Eduard Jacobs Conversations with Hugo von Hofmannsthal and two unpublished letters. in: Hofmannsthal-Blätter , H. 41/42 (1991/1992), pp. 79-85.
• Together with Jorun B. Johns and Richard H. Lawson: Turn-of-the-Century Vienna and its Legacy. Essays in Honor of Donald G. Daviau . (New York and Vienna: Edition Atelier 1993). ISBN 3-900379-84-X (Europe); ISBN 0-929497-74-0 (USA).
• The unpublished correspondence between Antoinette von Kahler and Hermann Broch, taking into account some unpublished letters from Richard Beer-Hofmann, Albert Einstein and Thomas Mann : in: Modern Austrian Literature , Volume 26, Number 2, 1994; pp. 39-76. ISSN  0026-7503
• '[…] Permit me to say that you are an ideal publisher'. Ben W. Huebsch of the Viking Press (New York) - Unpublished Correspondence with European Authors in Exile, with special attention to Feuchtwanger [and Stefan Zweig]. in: Refuge and Reality - Feuchtwanger and the European Émigrés in California, ed. Pól Ó Dochartaigh and Alexander Stephan (Amsterdam: Editions Rodopi BV 2005), pp. 109–129. ISBN 90-420-1945-X
• Further Remarks about Lion Feuchtwanger's Interaction with Ben Huebsch between 1941 and 1943, including their Unpublished Correspondence about the Genesis of the American edition of Die Brüder Lautensack. In: Lion Feuchtwanger and the German-speaking emigration in France from 1933 to 1941, ed. Daniel Azuélos (Bern and New York: Peter Lang 2006), pp. 297–322. ISBN 3-03910-999-5 .
• Experience and testimony. Perspectives on the genesis of Heinrich Eduard Jacobs' biography 'The World of Emma Lazarus '. In: Études Germaniques 63 (2008) 4; Pp. 707-722. ISSN  0014-2115
• A Relentless Drive for Meaning (Part I): Lion Feuchtwanger's Unpublished Correspondence with his American Publisher Ben Huebsch regarding “Goya or the arge path of knowledge” (1948–51). In: Feuchtwanger and Film, ed. Ian Wallace. (Bern and New York: Peter Lang 2009), pp. 41–124. ISBN 978-3-03911-954-7 .
• A Relentless Drive for Meaning (Part II): Lion Feuchtwanger's Unpublished Correspondence with his American Publisher Ben Huebsch (1952–1956). In: Feuchtwanger and Remigration , ed. Ian Wallace. (Bern and New York: Peter Lang 2013), pp. 93–184. ISBN 978-3-0343-0919-6 .

Thomas Mann

• Approaches to Teaching Mann's " Death in Venice " and Other Short Fiction . New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 1992. ISBN 0-87352-709-7 .
• On the Making of The Magic Mountain: The Unpublished Correspondence of Thomas Mann, Alfred A. Knopf, and HT Lowe-Porter , in: Seminar. A Journal of Germanic Studies. 28, 4 (November 1992), pp. 283-320. CN ISSN  0037-1939
• A reading and picture book by people: Unpublished Letters of Thomas Mann, Alfred A. Knopf, and HT Lowe-Porter, 1929–1934, with Special Reference to the Joseph Novels. Seminar. A Journal of Germanic Studies , 30, 3 (September 1994), pp. 221-275. CN ISSN  0037-1939
• Answer to Knopf's warnings: Unpublished Letters of Thomas Mann and Alfred A. Knopf (March 1939 – June 1940) , Seminar , 32, 3 (September 1996), pp. 189–220. CN ISSN  0037-1939
• “Was our [concentration camp] imprisonment an isolated incident, something monstrously accidental, or was it the natural consequence of natural conditions?” The Unpublished Exile Correspondence between Heinrich Eduard Jacob and Raoul Auernheimer (1939–1943); in: Germanisch-Romanische monthly , new series Volume 49, Issue 2, Heidelberg 1999; Pp. 209-239. ISSN  0016-8904
• "Through me it goes to the city of the chosen ones, through me it goes to eternal pain, [...] Let those who enter, let go of all hope!" The Unpublished Correspondence of Heinrich Eduard Jacob in Dachau and Buchenwald concentration camps (1938–1939) and unpublished letters with the German PEN Club in London; in: "Germanisch-Romanische monthly" , new series Volume 49, Issue 3, Heidelberg 1999; Pp. 307-331. ISSN  0016-8904
• Thomas Mann. in: Revised edition of first editions of German poetry , ed. Gero von Wilpert and Adolf Gühring (Stuttgart: Alfred Kröner Verlag 1992), pp. 1031-1035.
• Thomas Mann and Heinrich Eduard Jacob. Unpublished Letters about Haydn. In: Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift , 40, ii (1990), pp. 171-189.
• In exile. The Friendship and Unpublished Correspondence between Thomas Mann and Heinrich Eduard Jacob. in: Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte , 64, i (1990), pp. 172–187.
• Hermann Broch and Antoinette von Kahler: Friendship, Correspondence, Poetry. in: Hermann Broch. Literature, Philosophy, Politics. The Yale Broch Symposium 1986 , ed. Steven Dowden (Columbia, South Carolina: Camden House 1987), pp. 176-192.
• I like your idea of ​​getting this statement a little more publicized in America: Thomas Mann's Unpublished Correspondence from 5 January 1936 to 3 May 1936 with Alfred A. Knopf and HT Lowe-Porter. in: Euphorion: Zeitschrift für Literaturgeschichte , 95, ii (2001), pp. 197-210.
• ON THE NATURE OF LETTERS - Thomas Mann's unpublished correspondence with his American publisher and translator, and unpublished letters about the writing of Doctor Faustus. in: European Journal of English Studies , 9, i (April 2005), pp. 61–73.
• Additional Reflections on Thomas Mann as a Letter Writer: With the Unpublished Correspondences of Thomas Mann, Alfred A. Knopf, and HT Lowe-Porter about the Genesis of Doctor Faustus, The Black Swan, and Confessions of Felix Krull - Confidence Man: The Early Years. In: Oxford German Studies , 34, ii (2005), pp. 123–157.

Arthur Schnitzler

• Some Images of the Betrayer in Arthur Schnitzler's Work. In: German Life & Letters , 26, i (1972), pp. 20-24.
• Political Criticism in Arthur Schnitzler's Aphorisms and Reflections. In: Neophilologus , 57, ii (1973), pp. 173-178.
• The Element of 'Hope' in Arthur Schnitzler's Die. In: Seminar. A Journal of Germanic Studies , 10, i (1974), pp. 38-49.
• Arthur Schnitzler's The Woman with the Dagger . Déjà vu Experience or Hypnotic Trance? In: Modern Austrian Literature , 7, i / ii (1974), pp. 108-112.
• An Annotated Arthur Schnitzler Bibliography 1965–1977. With an essay on The Meaning of the "Schnitzler-Renaissance" (Foreword by Sol Liptzin). Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1978. ISBN 3-7705-1568-4 .
• The Priest Figure in Schnitzler's Professor Bernhardi. In: Neophilologus, 64, iii (1980), pp. 433-438.
• Arthur Schnitzler Bibliography for 1977–1981 ; In: "Modern Austrian Literature", Volume 15, Number 1, 1982; Pp. 61-83. ISSN  0026-7503
• Notes on An Unpublished Letter: Brandes , Beer-Hofmann, Schnitzler. In: Text & Context. Journal for German literature research in Scandinavia , 10.1 (1982), pp. 164–170.
• The relationship between Ibsen and Schnitzler. In: Text & Context. Journal for German literature research in Scandinavia , 10.2 (1982), 383–398. (Special Schnitzler Issue)
• Theodor Reik's unpublished letters to Arthur Schnitzler. Taking into account some letters to Richard Beer-Hofmann. In: Literature and Criticism , 173/174 (1983), pp. 182-197.
• Arthur Schnitzler: An Unpublished Letter about the blind Geronimo and his brother . In: Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift , 37, ii (1987), pp. 227-229.
• Arthur Schnitzler. Revised edition of first editions of German poetry edited by Gero von Wilpert and Adolf Gühring (Stuttgart: Alfred Kröner Verlag 1992), pp. 1365–1367.
• Journalists, Language, and Truth in Arthur Schnitzler's Fink und Fliederbusch. In: Modern Austrian Literature , 25, iii / iv (1992), pp. 1-23.
• Arthur Schnitzler's Views on Intellectual Property, illustrated by the Trials and Tribulations of Casanova's Homecoming In: Arthur Schnitzler - Zeitgenossenschaften / Contemporaneities . Edited by Florian Krobb and Ian Foster (Bern and New York: Lang Verlag 2001), pp. 70-88.
• Arthur Schnitzler's Unpublished Memoir Copyright and Intellectual Property. With Commentary about his Views on Copyright Laws. In: Jewish aspects of Young Vienna in the cultural context of the “Fin de Siècle,” Ed. Sarah Fraiman-Morris (Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag 2005), pp. 61–73. (Series Conditio Judaica 52)

Stefan Zweig

• The Correspondence of Stefan Zweig with Richard Beer-Hofmann ; in: Donald G. Daviau, Jorun B. Johns and Jeffrey B. Berlin (Editors): The Correspondence of Stefan Zweig with Raoul Auernheimer and Richard Beer-Hofmann . Columbia, South Carolina: Camden House, 1983. ISBN 0-938100-22-X .
• Together with Hans-Ulrich Lindken and Donald A. Prater : Stefan Zweig Correspondence with Hermann Bahr, Sigmund Freud, Rainer Maria Rilke and Arthur Schnitzler . Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer Verlag, 1987. ISBN 3-10-097081-0 .
• The Unpublished Correspondence Between Albert Einstein and Stefan Zweig; in: Amy Colin and Elisabeth Strenger (eds.): Bridges over the abyss. Confrontations with Jewish experiences of suffering, anti-Semitism and exile. Festschrift for Harry Zohn . Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1994; Pp. 337-363. ISBN 3-7705-2950-2 .
• Stefan Zweig: Letters 1897-1942 in four volumes (1995-2005):
  • Volume 1 - Together with Knut Beck and Natascha Weschenbach-Feggeler: Stefan Zweig: Letters 1897 - 1914 . Frankfurt / Main: S. Fischer Verlag, 1995. ISBN 3-10-097088-8 .
  • Volume 2 - Together with Knut Beck and Natascha Weschenbach-Feggeler: Stefan Zweig: Letters 1914 - 1919 . Frankfurt / Main: S. Fischer Verlag, 1998. ISBN 3-10-097089-6 .
  • Volume 3 - Together with Knut Beck: Stefan Zweig: Letters 1920 - 1931 . Frankfurt / Main: S. Fischer Verlag, 2000. ISBN 3-10-097090-X .
  • Volume 4 - Together with Knut Beck: Stefan Zweig: Letters 1932 - 1942 . Frankfurt / Main: S. Fischer Verlag, 2005. ISBN 3-10-097093-4 .
• Response and Impression: Encountering Concepts of Judaism and Zionism in the Unpublished Correspondence between Martin Buber and Stefan Zweig (1901-1931). in: " Germanisch-Romanische monthly ", new series Volume 50, Issue iii, Heidelberg 1999; Pp. 333-360.
• Together with Gabriella Rovagnati: Stefan Zweig. in: German Biographical Encyclopedia , ed. Walther Killy and Rudolf Vierhaus, 2nd ed., vol. 10 (Munich: KG Saur Verlag 1999), pp. 705-706.
• The Austrian Catastrophe: Political Reflections in the Unpublished Correspondence between Stefan Zweig and Arnold Zweig. in: Austrian Exodus: The Creative Achievements of Refugees from National Socialism , ed. Edward Timms and Ritchie Robertson (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press 1995 = Austrian Studies VI), pp. 3–21.
• Regarding the unpublished 'conversations' Stefan Zweig with Ben Huebsch in the decisive year 1933. in: Stefan Zweig: Exil und Suche nach dem Weltfrieden , ed. Mark H. Gelber and Klaus Zelewitz (Riverside: Ariadne Press 1995), pp. 279-294.
• Carl Zuckmayer and Ben Huebsch: Unpublished Letters about Stefan Zweig's Suicide. in: Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift , 38, i / ii (1988), pp. 196–199.
• The Struggle for Survival - From Hitler's Appointment to the Nazi Book-Burnings: Some Unpublished Stefan Zweig Letters, with an Unpublished Manifesto. in: Turn-of-the-Century Vienna and its Legacy: Essays in Honor of Donald G. Daviau , ed. JB Berlin et al. (Vienna: Edition Atelier 1993), pp. 361–388. ISBN 3-900379-84-X (Europe); ISBN 0-929497-74-0 (USA).
• Stefan Zweig: An Unpublished Letter about Guy de Maupassant. in: Études Germaniques , 42, i (1987), pp. 66-69.
• Stefan Zweig's Unpublished Letters of 1938 to Ben Huebsch. in: Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte , 61, ii (1987), pp. 325–358.
• An Author and his Publisher: Stefan Zweig's Unpublished Letters of 1936 to Ben Huebsch. in: Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift , 37, iii (1987), pp. 301-319.
• Together with H. Lindken: Hugo von Hofmannsthal - Stefan Zweig: Briefe (1907–1928). in: Hofmannsthal-Blätter , H. 26 (1982), pp. 86-116.
• Ben W. Huebsch, Stefan Zweig, Lion Feuchtwanger, Franz Werfel, and the Viking Press Imprint. In: German and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History, 3 vols., Ed. Thomas Adam (Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO Publishers, 2005), vol. II, pp. 518-529.
• "... I designed a little chess novella" Stefan Zweig's letters and the genesis of his last work. in: Susanne Poldauf and Andreas Saremba (eds.): 65 years of chess novella . Berlin: Emanuel Lasker Society, 2007; Pp. 40-56.
• Stefan Zweig's chess novella. In: Karl. The cultural chess magazine , vol. 27, no. 1 (2010), pp. 18-25.
• How unimportant are all our books and what we do now! The Unpublished Correspondence between Stefan Zweig and Felix Braun during the Anschluss Year 1938. In: Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift .
• We want neither victory nor defeat for anyone. We are enemies of victory and friends of renunciation… - Notes on an Unpublished 1918 Stefan Zweig Letter to Hermann Hesse. In: Germanisch-Romanische Monatsschrift , 41, ii (1991), pp. 231-235.
• Together with H. Lindken: The unpublished correspondence between Franz Werfel and Stefan Zweig. In: Modern Austrian Literature , 24, ii (1991), pp. 89-122.
• The Writer's Political Obligations in Exile: The Case of Stefan Zweig. In: Stefan Zweig and World Literature. Twenty-First-Century Perspectives , ed. Birger Vanwesenbeeck and Mark H. Gelber (Rochester: Camden House 2014), pp. 224-255. ISBN 1-57113-924-9 .
• Together with Gert Kerschbaumer : Stefan Zweig - Friderike Zweig "When the clouds give way for a moment" Correspondence 1912 - 1942 . Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer Verlag, 2006. ISBN 978-3-10-097096-1

literature

• “The last part” in the life and work of Stefan Zweig . Jeffrey B. Berlin in conversation with Hans Jörgen Gerlach ; in: Zwischenwelt. Journal for the Culture of Exile and Resistance , Volume 19, No. 3, Vienna: December 2002; Pp. 27-28. ISSN  1606-4321

Web links

• Literature by and about Jeffrey B. Berlin in the catalog of the German National Library
• International Stefan Zweig Society, Salzburg
• Casa Stefan Zweig (Brazil)