Arthur Schnitzler's correspondence

Letter to Fritz Freund

The Austrian writer Arthur Schnitzler (1862–1931) was an avid letter writer from whom much correspondence has been preserved. An estimate showed that there are around 10,000 letters to him in his estate . Correspondingly, the letters sent by him can be accepted to the same extent. In the period after 1900, business was mainly typed by a secretary with a typewriter. Copies of these have been preserved in his estate.

History of the editions

Individual letters from Schnitzler were already printed during his lifetime, which was mostly less due to his than to the celebrity of the people he corresponded with. Among them are letters from Adolf von Sonnenthal , Theodor Herzl , Peter Altenberg and Max Burckhard . A more extensive editing activity did not begin until after World War II. As a result, many celebrity letters were published. At the same time, more private correspondence such as the one with his lovers Olga Waissnix and Adele Sandrock were published for the first time . Until the publication of the diary (1981–2000), the correspondence, along with the autobiography Jugend in Wien, was a central source of biographical information on Schnitzler.

Storage locations and division of correspondence

Cambridge University Library

Together with the literary estate, the most important letter autographs that Schnitzler received are also kept in the Cambridge University Library . The approximately 5000 letters are arranged in folders and alphabetically; their holdings can be viewed in the catalog. In addition to most of the correspondence from celebrities, which make up the first 132 folder numbers, there are still 900 individual letters. Also in this estate are the letters that Schnitzler and Hugo von Hofmannsthal wrote to Gustav Schwarzkopf.

German Literature Archive Marbach

The German Literature Archive took over after the death of the son Heinrich Schnitzler in 1982 the "private" estate, also called "Wiener estate." Of the written testimonies it contains above all the correspondence Schnitzler with family members and with partners. In addition, there is business mail which, when it was handed over to the DLA, was roughly classified according to country ("Romanic countries" for France, Spain, Italy and "America and England"). There are also other smaller correspondence and individual letters. It is not possible to draw a precise demarcation from the objects kept in Cambridge, so that it can be assumed that this part was disordered and only roughly divided. The DLA also keeps other estates containing letters from Schnitzler, including those to Robert Adam and Fritz von Unruh .

Published editions

In 1981 and 1984 two voluminous volumes with selected letters from Arthur Schnitzler were published. These were published by his son Heinrich Schnitzler in collaboration with others. The letters are extensively commented. However, many of the letters are cited through the carbon copies in the estate and not after the original that was actually sent, which is why handwritten additions are missing.

Prominent contemporaries

• Raoul Auernheimer (1876–1948), lawyer, journalist and writer
• Hermann Bahr (1863–1934), writer, playwright and theater and literary critic
• Wilhelm Bölsche (1861–1939), writer
• Georg Brandes (1842–1927), literary critic, philosopher and writer
• Richard Beer-Hofmann (1866–1945), novelist, playwright and poet
• Otto Brahm (1856–1912), critic, theater director and director
• Samuel Fischer (1859–1934), publisher
• Sigmund Freud (1856–1939), neurologist, depth psychologist, cultural theorist and critic of religion
• Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874–1929), writer, dramatist, poet, librettist and co-founder of the Salzburg Festival
• Karl Kraus (1874–1936), writer
• Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926), poet
• Stefan Zweig (1881–1942), writer

Exchange of private letters

• Eugene Deimel
• Hedy Kempny (1895–1986), bank clerk and journalist
• Franziska Reich / Lawner
• Maria Reinhard (1871–1899), singing teacher and actress
• Adele Sandrock (1863–1937), actress
• Olga Waissnix

Web links

• Wikisource
  • Arthur Schnitzler - Correspondence with authors , currently contains the complete correspondence:

Robert Adam Peter Altenberg Lou Andreas-Salomé Hermann Bahr Richard Beer-Hofmann Franz Blei Oscar Blumenthal Georg Brandes Max Burckhard Wilhelm Boelsche Michael Georg Conrad Paula Dehmel Richard Dehmel Albert Ehrenstein

Friedrich M. Fels Stefan Grossmann Gerhart Hauptmann Hugo von Hofmannsthal Eduard Michael Kafka Karl Kraus Detlev von Liliencron Fedor Mamroth Thomas Mann Laura Marholm Alfred Polgar Julius Rodenberg Frank Wedekind Joseph Victor Widmann

• Hermann Bahr, Arthur Schnitzler: Correspondence, records, documents (1891–1931), ed. by Kurt Ifkovits and Martin Anton Müller, website .

literature

expenditure

• Arthur Schnitzler: Letters 1875–1912. Edited by Therese Nickl and Heinrich Schnitzler. Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer 1981. ( online )
• Arthur Schnitzler: Letters 1913–1931. Edited by Peter Michael Braunwarth, Richard Miklin, Susanne Pertlik and Heinrich Schnitzler. Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer 1984. ( online )
• Hermann Bahr, Arthur Schnitzler: Correspondence, records, documents 1891–1931. Edited by Kurt Ifkovits, Martin Anton Müller. Göttingen: Wallstein 2018, ISBN 978-3-8353-3228-7 Publishing house presentation , PDF , extended web presentation
• Georg Brandes and Arthur Schnitzler. An exchange of letters . Edited by Kurt Bergel. Bern: Francke 1956. ( online )
• Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Arthur Schnitzler: Correspondence . Edited by Therese Nickl and Heinrich Schnitzler. Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer 1964. ( online )
• “The girl with thirteen souls.” A correspondence supplemented by pages from Hedy Kempny's diary and a selection of her stories. Edited by Heinz P. Adamek , Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1984, ISBN 3-499-15457-9 .
• Heinz P. Adamek (Ed.): In the New World - Arthur Schnitzler - Eugen Deimel, correspondence. Holzhausen, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85493-074-7 . ( online )
• Arthur Schnitzler and Olga Waissnix: love that died before time. An exchange of letters . Edited by Therese Nickl and Heinrich Schnitzler. Vienna, Munich, Zurich: Molden 1970. ( online )

Secondary sources

• Braunwarth, Peter Michael; Miklin, Richard; Pertlik, Susanne: Foreword . In: Arthur Schnitzler: Letters 1913–1931. Edited by Peter Michael Braunwarth, Richard Miklin, Susanne Pertlik and Heinrich Schnitzler. Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer 1984, pp. V – VIII.
• Farese, Giuseppe: Arthur Schnitzler's diaries and letters. Everyday life and history . In: Schnitzler's hidden manuscripts , edited by Lorenzo Bellettini and Peter Hutchinson, pp. 23--47. Oxford; New York: Peter Lang, 2010.
• Fliedl, Konstanze : Arthur Schnitzler. Writing and writing. In: The Poet's Workshop. Imagination spaces of literary production . Publishers Klaus Kastberger and Stefan Maurer. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter 2017
• Jürgensen, Christoph: letters . In Schnitzler handbook: Life, Work, Effect , edited by Christoph Jürgensen, Wolfgang Lukas, and Michael Scheffel , Stuttgart: Verlag JB Metzler, 2014, pp. 285--90.
• Marxer, Bettina: Love letters, and what is now called that: Correspondence between Arthur Schnitzler, Olga Waissnix and Marie Reinhard: A literary and cultural studies reading . Epistemata, Vol. 362.Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2001.
• Nickl, Therese; Schnitzler, Heinrich: Foreword . In: Arthur Schnitzler: Letters 1875–1912. Edited by Therese Nickl and Heinrich Schnitzler. Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer 1981, S. V-XI.
• Schuster, Jörg : »Art Life«. On the cultural poetics of the letter around 1900 - correspondence of Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Rainer Maria Rilkes. Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink 2014
• Susen, Gerd-Hermann; Müller, Martin Anton: What new things can be expected from Arthur Schnitzler's correspondence with authors? . In: Studia Austriaca , Vol. 27 (2019), pp. 51–54. ( online )
• Wiethölter, Waltraud; Anne Bohnenkamp (ed.): The letter - event & object. Frankfurt conference. Frankfurt am Main, Basel: Stroemfeld 2010.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jutta Müller, Gerhard Neumann: The estate of Arthur Schnitzler. Directory of the in the Schnitzler archive of the University of Freiburg i. Br. Material. With a foreword by Gerhart Baumann and an appendix by Heinrich Schnitzler: Directory of the estate material available in Vienna. Fink, Munich 1969, p. 149. (Introductory remarks on the "shape and history of the estate"; (digitized version) )
2. ↑ Sonnenthal, Hermine von (ed.): Adolf von Sonnenthal's correspondence. With two engraved portraits, 24 inset pictures and a letter facsimile . Second volume , Stuttgart, Berlin: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt 1912.
3. ↑ " Schnitzler's letter to Theodor Herzl of August 5, 1892 ", Jüdischer Almanach, 1900, pp. 102-103.
4. ↑ hm: “ Correspondence between Theodor Herzl and Artur Schnitzler. Apprenticeship years of the famous Zionist leader ”, in: Neues Wiener Journal, May 29, 1920, [http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?aid=nwj&atum=19200529&seite=3&zoom=33 (online)]. m .: “ Theodor Herzl's departure from the theater. Interesting letters to Artur Schnitzler ”, in: Neues Wiener Journal, June 1, 1920, p. 4 [1] & page = 4 & zoom = 33 (online)].
5. ^ " Last letters from Peter Altenberg ", in: Neues Wiener Journal, November 21, 1920, p. 8 [http://anno.onb.ac.at/cgi-content/anno?aid=nwj&daten=19201121&seite=8&zoom= 33 online].
6. ^ Glossy, Karl: " Schnitzler's move into the Burgtheater ", in: Neue Freie Presse , December 19, 1931, p. 14.
7. ↑ Arthur Schnitzler papers - Correspondence. Retrieved May 3, 2019 . 
8. ↑ Gerd Hermann Susen, Martin Anton Müller: What new things can be expected from Arthur Schnitzler's correspondence with authors? In: Studia Austriaca . tape 27 , 2019, p. 52 , doi : 10.13130 ​​/ 1593-2508 / 11503 .
9. ↑ Arthur Schnitzler: Letters 1875–1912. Edited by Therese Nickl and Heinrich Schnitzler. Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer 1981. ( online )
10. ↑ Arthur Schnitzler: Letters 1913-1931. Edited by Peter Michael Braunwarth, Richard Miklin, Susanne Pertlik and Heinrich Schnitzler. Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer 1984. ( online )
11. ^ Auernheimer, Raoul and Arthur Schnitzler: The Correspondence of Arthur Schnitzler and Raoul Auernheimer. With Raoul Auernheimers Aphorisms ., Ed. v. Donald G. Daviau and Jorun B. Johns, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press 1972 (University of North Carolina Studies in the Germanic Languages ​​and Literatures 73).
12. ^ Hermann Bahr, Arthur Schnitzler: Correspondence, records, documents 1891-1931. Edited by Kurt Ifkovits, Martin Anton Müller. Göttingen: Wallstein 2018, ISBN 978-3-8353-3228-7 . Replaces the earlier edition of Schnitzler's letters to Bahr: The Letters of Arthur Schnitzler to Hermann Bahr , ed. v. Donald G. Daviau, Chapel Hill: The North Carolina University Press 1978 (University of North Carolina Studies in the Germanic languages ​​and literatures 89).
13. ^ Bölsche, Wilhelm: Correspondence: with authors of the Free Stage , ed. v. Gerd-Hermann Susen, Berlin: Weidler 2010, pp. XXXX – XXXX. Earlier edition of Schnitzler's letters: "Arthur Schnitzler's Briefe an Wilhelm Bölsche" , in: Germanica Wratislaviensia, vol. 77 (1987), pp. 456–466.
14. ↑ Georg Brandes and Arthur Schnitzler. An exchange of letters . Edited by Kurt Bergel . Bern: Francke 1956. ( online )
15. ^ Arthur Schnitzler, Richard Beer-Hofmann: Correspondence 1891–1931 . Ed .: Konstanze Fliedl. 1st edition. Europaverlag, Vienna / Zurich 1992, ISBN 3-203-51150-9 , p. 351 .
16. ^ Oskar Seidlin: The correspondence Arthur Schnitzler - Otto Brahm , Society for Theater History 1953 (writings of the Society for Theater History 57).
17. ^ Fischer, Samuel and Hedwig Fischer: Correspondence with authors , ed. v. Dierk Rodewald and Corinna Fiedler, With an introduction by Bernhard Zeller. Ed., Frankfurt a. M .: S. Fischer 1989.
18. ↑ Freud, Sigmund: " Letters to Arthur Schnitzler ", in: Neue deutsche Rundschau, vol. 66/1 (1955), pp. 95-106. (Ed. By Heinrich Schnitzler)
19. ↑ Hofmannsthal, Hugo von and Arthur Schnitzler: Briefwechsel , ed. v. Therese Nickl and Heinrich Schnitzler, Frankfurt a. M .: S. Fischer 1964.
20. ↑ Urbach, Reinhard: “ Karl Kraus and Arthur Schnitzler. A documentation ”, in: Literature and Criticism, Vol. 49, October 1970, pp. 513-530.
21. ↑ Rilke, Rainer Maria and Arthur Schnitzler: “ Rainer Maria Rilke and Arthur Schnitzler. Your correspondence. “, In: Wirkendes Wort, Vol. 13, No. 1 (1958), pp. 283-298.
22. ^ Zweig, Stefan: Correspondence with Hermann Bahr, Sigmund Freud, Rainer Maria Rilke and Arthur Schnitzler , ed. v. Jeffrey B. Berlin, Frankfurt am Main: S. Fischer 1987.
23. ↑ Heinz P. Adamek (ed.): In the New World - Arthur Schnitzler - Eugen Deimel, correspondence. Holzhausen, Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-85493-074-7 .
24. ↑ "The girl with thirteen souls." Correspondence supplemented by sheets from Hedy Kempny's diary and a selection of her stories. Edited by Heinz P. Adamek , Rowohlt, Reinbek bei Hamburg 1984, ISBN 3-499-15457-9 .
25. ↑ The letters relevant to the genesis of Ms. Bertha Garlan printed in the appendix by: Arthur Schnitzler: Ms. Bertha Garlan . Historical-critical edition . Edited by Gerhard Hubmann and Isabella Schwentner with the assistance of Anna Lindner and Martin Anton Müller. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter 2015, pp. 281–298.
26. ↑ Schnitzler, Arthur: " Arthur Schnitzler to Marie Reinhard (1896) ", in: Modern Austrian Literature, Vol. 10, H. 3/4 (1977), pp. 23-68.
27. ↑ Arthur Schnitzler and Adele Sandrock: Dilly. Story of a love in letters, pictures and documents , ed. v. Renate Wagner, Vienna 1975.
28. ↑ Arthur Schnitzler, Olga Waissnix: Love that died before time. An exchange of letters . Ed .: Therese Nickl, Heinrich Schnitzler. Molden, Vienna / Munich / Zurich 1970.