Arthur Schnitzler's estate

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Arthur Schnitzler, ca.1912, photograph by Ferdinand Schmutzer

Arthur Schnitzler organized his papers during his lifetime (estimated at more than 40,000 pages) and made provisions in his will on how to deal with his estate. He set a blocking period for the publication of his diaries and stipulated that his letters could never be published in abbreviated form. The "Anschluss" of Austria saved most of the country and thus saved it from destruction. Today this means that there are several storage locations that jointly own most of the papers.

History of the estate

Rescue of the estate to Cambridge

After his death in 1931, most of his literary estate was left in a garden room in his house that was separately accessible from the outside, where his family made it accessible for scientific purposes. In his will , Schnitzler had designated his two closest friends, the writer Richard Beer-Hofmann and the lawyer and chess master Arthur Kaufmann, as advisors to his son Heinrich in estate matters . Shortly after the “Anschluss” in March 1938, the garden room of the Schnitzler house was opened on the initiative of the Cambridge student Eric A. Blackall , who was in Vienna for his dissertation on Adalbert Stifter and, with the permission of Schnitzler's descendants (according to Konstanze Fliedl, they were “in a kind of numbness ”) inspected the estate, sealed by the British Embassy in Vienna. Olga Schnitzler may have “donated” the estate to the Cambridge University Library in order to make it English property. It turned out to be problematic that Olga, being divorced from the author, was not entitled to dispose at all and the author had named his son Heinrich as the sole owner in his will. But this was not in Vienna. The Gestapo respected the British seals in their house searches. A little later, the majority of the estate, again on Blackall's initiative and with the consent of the family, was brought to England and found a new safekeeping in the Cambridge University Library . Heinrich Schnitzler's attempted transfer to Columbia University did not materialize. A part remained in the family's possession, especially a manuscript of the dance and correspondence. After Heinrich Schnitzler's return from the United States to Austria, these were given the title of the Viennese estate .

Microfilming

In 1950, the filming of the estate in Cambridge was completed.In the period before the estate directory was edited, the majority of the private collections in the family property in Vienna were reproduced on a total of 44 microfilm rolls now on the order of Heinrich Schnitzler , which were kept at two research institutions in to the USA ( University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and International Arthur Schnitzler Research Association (IASRA), Binghamton (New York) ) as well as to the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg , where there is now an Arthur Schnitzler archive . A fourth copy, which remained in the private ownership of the son, was handed over to the German Literature Archive in Marbach am Neckar after his death in 1982, together with Arthur Schnitzler's private estate (including the letters and diaries) .

Microfilming was done in two attempts. The first film adaptations were made in 1947, with films A, B and C, presumably also D being made. Then followed around 1950 the microfilms # 1 to # 38 and # 23A (D, mentioned here for the first time, belongs in the continuation of # 34). In a letter dated January 12, 1965, Heinrich Schnitzler mentions three more films to be made before “the entire estate would really be available”. In 1966 38 rolls were copied for the Schnitzler archive, from which 41 would result in the complete number of films. A inventory of the holdings can be found on the UCLA website. Folder 212 with drama plans can be used to illustrate the complex situation in which the estate is found today: The folder actually belongs to Cambridge, but should be one of the Viennese filmed parts. As a result of the microfilm, a copy of the portfolio came to Freiburg and was recategorized, here has the signature BI. However, the portfolio itself is no longer in its place of storage in England, but came through the transfer of Heinrich Schnitzler's estate to the DLA in Marbach. Here the old call numbers were only partially taken into account, and it can now be found renamed to Dramatik Plans with the accession number HS.NZ85.0001.00004. The already problematic situation is made worse by the fact that parts of the CUL estate were forgotten during the filming. A complete review of holdings can therefore only be carried out by visiting the three main towns of Cambridge, Marbach and Freiburg.

Directories

In addition to the digitally accessible estate directory, which is based on the Freiburg holdings, the papers in the possession of the German Literature Archives and Cambridge University can be searched for in the DLA's Kallias catalog. A concordance of the estate itself and the microfilms can be accessed digitally on the Arthur Schnitzler edition project homepage.

Repositories

Cambridge University Library

The majority of the manuscripts and the correspondence classified by Schnitzler himself as important are kept in Cambridge to this day.

German Literature Archive Marbach

The so-called Viennese estate , i.e. materials that had remained in the family's possession throughout, went to the German Literature Archive in Marbach am Neckar after the death of Heinrich Schnitzler in 1982 . In addition to a few manuscripts, it mainly contains the extensive correspondence. Parts of it can be seen in the permanent exhibition in the Museum of Modern Literature in Marbach, in particular the manuscript for Lieutenant Gustl . However, only a facsimile is shown there. The original manuscript is in the Cambridge holdings.

Exeter University Library

Schnitzler's collection of newspaper clippings, with reviews and reports on him, was given to the Exeter University Library . A digitization of the holdings was put online by the Austrian Center for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage 2019.

Arthur Schnitzler Archive, Freiburg

Based on the microfilms, Gerhart Baumann founded the Arthur Schnitzler Archive in Freiburg in the 1960s . It is a copy archive expanded by collection.

Further stocks

The Leo Baeck Institute , the Israeli National Library , the Fondation Bodmer in Geneva, the Austrian National Library and the Vienna Library in the City Hall have other holdings with Schnitzler manuscripts .

Restitution question

On January 11, 2015, Thomas Trenkler published in the Viennese daily Kurier an evaluation of the family story Die Schnitzlers by Jutta Jacobi , published in autumn 2014, and the depiction of the early legacy confusion by David Österle and Wilhelm Hemecker, which was published almost simultaneously . In his conclusion, based on an oral statement by lawyer Alfred Noll , he sees the Schnitzler family of Cambridge University Library being blackmailed in an emergency. The estate would therefore have to be returned to Heinrich Schnitzler's heirs.

literature

  • Kristina Fink: Arthur Schnitzler's estate, http://www.arthur-schnitzler.de online
  • Vivien Friedrich: Schnitzler's estate . In:  Schnitzler manual. Life - work - effect . Ed. V. Michael Scheffel , Wolfgang Lukas, Christoph Juergensen. Stuttgart: Metzler 2014, pp. 413-415.
  • Bellettini, Lorenzo and Christian Staufenbiel: The Schnitzler, Nachlass'. Saved by a Cambridge Student. In: Schnitzler's Hidden Manuscripts . Ed. Lorenzo Bellettini and Peter Hutchinson. British and Irish Studies in German Language and Literature = Etudes Britanniques et Irlandaises Sur La Langue et La Littérature Allemandes, 51. Oxford, New York: Peter Lang 2011, pp. 11–21.
  • Lorenzo Bellettini: alias 'Tiarks'. In: Die Presse , Spectrum, July 18, 2008, p. Iv ( online , for a fee)
  • Donald G. Daviau: Hermann Bahr, Arthur Schnitzler and Raoul Aurnheimer: Estate and Edition Problems. In: Marie-Louise Roth, Renate Schöder-Werle, Hans Zeller (eds.): Estate and edition problems with modern writers. Contributions to the International Robert Musil Symposia in Brussels 1976 and Saarbrücken 1977. Bern 1981, pp. 107–116.
  • Hemecker, Wilhelm and David Österle: "" ... everything else was so fundamentally wrong "On the history of Arthur Schnitzler's estate", Yearbook of the German Schiller Society 58 (2014), pp. 3-40.
  • Ulrich Ott: Annual report of the German Schiller Society 1985. In: Yearbook of the German Schiller Society. 30: 689-717 (1986).
  • Michaela Perlmann: Arthur Schnitzler. (Metzler Collection, Vol. 239). Stuttgart 1987, pp. 1-2. (Chapter 1: The Estate.)
  • Jutta Müller, Gerhard Neumann: Arthur Schnitzler's estate. 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. (Introductory remarks on the "shape and history of the estate")
  • Otto P. Schinnerer: Arthur Schnitzler's "Estate". In: The Germanic Review. ; 1933, pp. 114-123.
  • Heinrich Schnitzler: My father's estate. In: Structure. (New York) November 9, 1951, pp. 9-10.
  • Heinrich Schnitzler: I'm not a poet, I'm a natural scientist. My father's estate. In: The New Newspaper. Munich, No. 247 (October 20/21, 1951), pp. 9-10. (More detailed version of the "Construction" article.)
  • Robert O. Weiss: The Arthur Schnitzler Archive at the University of Kentucky. A series of microflims made from Arthur Schnitzler's estate. In: IASRA. Vol. 2, No. 4 (1963-1964), pp. 11-26; TIMES. 4 (1971), No. 1, pp. 63-76.
  • Werner Welzig : In the archive and through letters. Information from Arthur Schnitzler's estate. In: Hans-Henrik Krummacher, Fritz Martini, Walter Müller-Seidel (Ed.): Time of Modernity. On German literature from the turn of the century to the present. Stuttgart 1984, pp. 441-444.

Web links

  • Digitized by: Jutta Müller, Gerhard Neumann: Arthur Schnitzler's estate. 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. (Introductory remarks on the "shape and history of the estate"). Digital edition with the kind permission of the author, Freiburg i. Br. 2010
  • Estate directory of the edition project "Arthur Schnitzler digital"
  • Arthur Schnitzler archive of newspaper clippings

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Wilhelm Hemecker and David Österle: "" Everything else was so fundamentally wrong "On the history of Arthur Schnitzler's estate", Yearbook of the German Schiller Society 58 (2014), p. 24.
  2. ↑ See the list of literature on the entry Arthur Schnitzler Archive in Freiburg, as well as Thomas Trenkler: Im Labyrinth des Dr. Schnitzler. (about Konstanze Fliedl's work), In: Daily newspaper Der Standard . Vienna, November 26th 2011, supplement album , pp. A1 f., And on the newspaper's website since November 25th 2011.
  3. ↑ Hemecker / Österle, as above, p. 40.
  4. ↑ a b 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. (Introductory remarks on the "shape and history of the estate"; (digitized version) )
  5. ↑ Jutta Müller, Gerhard Neumann: The estate of Arthur Schnitzler. Directory of the in the Schnitzler archive of the University of Freiburg i. Br. Material. Fink, Munich 1969, p. 15 (digitized version) .
  6. ↑ The exact number is unclear. For example, the estate directory mentions 37 roles (Jutta Müller, Gerhard Neumann: Der Nachlass Arthur Schnitzlers. Directory of the material in the Schnitzler archive of the University of Freiburg i. Br. Fink, Munich 1969, p. 15), but cites a microfilm 40 , at Weiss (Robert O. Weiss: The Arthur Schnitzler Archive at the University of Kentucky. A series of microfilms made from Arthur Schnitzler's Nachlass. In: MAL. 4 (1971), No. 1, pp. 63-76, pp. 63) is spoken of 38 but with A and B, which are together on one roll, 45 are listed.
  7. ^ Unpublished letter from Heinrich Schnitzler to Gisela Hajek, February 8, 1947
  8. ^ Robert O. Weiss: The Arthur Schnitzler Archive at the University of Kentucky. A series of microfilms made from Arthur Schnitzler's Nachlass. In: MAL, 4, No. 1, pp. 63-76, 1971, p. 63.
  9. ^ Heinrich Schnitzler to Gerhart Baumann, January 12, 1965. Arthur Schnitzler Archive, Freiburg.
  10. ^ Information from the Schnitzler archive, June 18, 2014, after reviewing the correspondence between Gerhart Baumann and Heinrich Schnitzler.
  11. ↑ http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf7w1008gn/entire_text/
  12. ↑ a b See the list in the Janus catalog Schnitzler Papers. Retrieved August 28, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Asking the DLA about Arthur Schnitzler.  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.dla-marbach.de  
  14. ^ Report on Deutschlandfunk about the new exhibition.
  15. ↑ The Schnitzler Press-Cuttings Archive , on people.exeter.ac.uk
  16. ↑ Schnitzler's estate: Saved - and expropriated. In: kurier.at. January 11, 2015, accessed December 28, 2017 .
  17. ^ Schnitzler estate: expropriation by Cambridge University "a beautiful mess". In: kurier.at. January 12, 2015, accessed December 29, 2017 .