German novella treasure

The Deutsche Novellenschatz is a collection of novellas in several volumes that was published many times in the 19th century.

Since 1871, Paul Heyse and Hermann Kurz published the series “Deutscher Novellenschatz” (1871–1876, 24 volumes) in R. Oldenbourg Verlag . This was followed by the “Neue Deutsche Novellenschatz” (1884–1887, 24 volumes), edited by Paul Heyse and Ludwig Laistner , and the “Novellenschatz des Auslandes” (1877–1884, 14 volumes). Numerous novels that are still known today have appeared here.

The older, classic novellas are often also available in other editions. The introduction to the Deutsches Novellenschatz, in which the editors explain the “falcon theory” of the “specific that distinguishes this story from a thousand others”, which has since been associated with Paul Heyse's name, is of literary historical significance .

Web links

Wikisource: Digital copies of the individual volumes  - sources and full texts

• all texts in digital form and full text in digital form and full text in the German text archive , partly digitalised after the second edition from 1910 (which is identical to the first edition).
• Literature by and about Deutscher Novellenschatz in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Paul Heyse, Hermann Kurz (Ed.): German Novell Treasure . tape 1 . Rudolph Oldenbourg, Munich, Introduction, p. V-XXIV, especially pp. XIX-XX (n.d. (1871)). Digitized and full text in the German text archive
2. ↑ See for example Paul Heyse # Novellen . - Gero von Wilpert: Specialized dictionary of literature . 7th edition. Alfred Kröner Verlag, Stuttgart 1989, ISBN 3-520-23107-7 , pp. 287 . - Günther and Irmgard Schweikle (eds.): Metzler-Literatur-Lexikon. Terms and Definitions . 2nd Edition. JB Metzlersche Verlagsbuchhandlung, Stuttgart 1990, ISBN 3-476-00668-9 , p. 149 .