Elias Canetti

Elias Canetti ( Bulgarian Елиас Канети; born July 25, 1905 in Russe , Principality of Bulgaria ; died August 14, 1994 in Zurich ) was a writer and aphorist for the German language and winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize for Literature .

Elias Canetti

Canetti was the eldest son of a wealthy Sephardic-Jewish merchant family - he used the expression "Spaniols" for the Sephardim. He spent the first years of his life in Bulgaria and England . His brothers were the music producer Jacques Canetti and the medic Georges Canetti . After the early death of their father in 1912, the family moved to Vienna (see Pratercottage ). In 1916, mother, siblings and Elias Canetti moved to neutral Switzerland because of Austrian war patriotism , where Canetti attended the Rämibühl high school in Zurich from 1917 to 1921 . It was only at the age of 12 that he learned the German language, which after his confession in “Province of Man” remained his real home: The language of my mind will remain German because I am a Jew. As a Jew, I want to protect in myself what remains of the land that has been devastated in every way. Their fate is mine too . Canetti moved to Germany with his mother and two brothers in 1921 and graduated from the Wöhler Realgymnasium in Frankfurt am Main in 1923 .

From 1924 he lived in Vienna again . In 1925 he dealt for the first time with the socio-psychological phenomenon of the "mass", which he researched throughout his life. In 1928, during the semester break in Berlin, he worked as a translator for Wieland Herzfelde for his Malik publishing house . After receiving his doctorate in chemistry a year later, he took up this position again. From 1930 he conceived an eight-volume cycle of novels, the first work of which - The Blinding - he finished in 1931.

In 1938, the " Anschluss of Austria " to the National Socialist German Reich forced him to emigrate to London with his wife Veza , where he stayed after the war and acquired British citizenship . In the 1970s he lived increasingly, in the 1980s soon exclusively in Switzerland. Canetti died in Zurich in 1994.

As a writer, Canetti is not easily classified into categories or literary currents. His work is extraordinarily varied, even in terms of the literary genres used. In addition to the novel Die Blendung , he has published three dramas , an anthropological study ( mass and power ) , aphoristic notes and a multi-volume autobiography .

Canetti's work is thematically homogeneous. He tried to research all the effects that the knowledge of the inevitability of death has on human life. Hence his interest in the various religions and beliefs. His interest in mass phenomena and manifestations of power , in particular in the pathogenesis of the Führer cult , arose in contact with the mass movements of the 1920s. Despite all his skepticism, Canetti was not characterized by a pessimistic attitude, rather he saw it as the profession of the poet (as the title of an essay from 1976) to create space for “hope” and ways out of “chaos”.

Because he was reluctant to publish, he was only gradually known to a wider public, especially in the German-speaking world. It was not until the mid-1960s that he received numerous prizes and awards.

Life

Childhood and youth

Elias Salomon Canetti was born on July 25, 1905 in Russe , Bulgaria. His parents Jacques Elias Canetti (1881–1912) and Mathilde (Masal) Canetti (Arditti) (1886–1937) came from two wealthy Spanish-Jewish merchant families who had come to Bulgaria via the Ottoman Empire. Canetti and his parents had Ottoman citizenship. When the opportunity arose in 1911 to do business with a relative working in England, the family took the opportunity to move to Manchester . Canetti later impressively described the only six years that Canetti spent in Bulgaria in the first volume of his life story. “Canetti contracted measles as a child and lost his eyesight for a few days. Since then he has been haunted by an obsessive thought of blindness ”, a circumstance that has repeatedly found expression in his literary work.

Canetti did not stay long in England either, because in October 1912 his still very young and apparently healthy father died completely unexpectedly, possibly from a heart attack - an experience that was sure to have a significant influence on Canetti's later preoccupation with death. The mother then decided to move to Vienna with Elias and his two younger brothers. Only now did Elias, whose mother tongue was Judenspanish Ladino and who had learned English and some French in England, received German lessons from his mother in a kind of pedagogical fast-track cure.

Partly because of the outbreak of World War I , partly because of an ongoing illness of the mother, the family moved several times in the following years, and Canetti lived a few years in Zurich (1916–1921) and in Frankfurt am Main (1921–1924), where he passed the Abitur at the Wöhlerschule (→ Frankfurt am Main in literature. Elias Canetti inflation and powerlessness ).

In the years after the death of her beloved father, Canetti developed a very close, jealous relationship with his mother, a very proud and independent woman with a passionate interest in theater and literature. With the reading evenings, at which mother and son read classical dramas together, she nourished Canetti's wish to later become a poet himself for a long time. Later she saw this development with increasing concern and tried to push her son into a practical profession. The move from idyllic Switzerland to inflation-ridden Germany was her attempt to bring Elias back down to earth. This strategy was unsuccessful: Elias became increasingly estranged from his mother in the 1920s and finally broke with her completely.

Vienna (1912–1916, 1924–1938)

Canetti lived from 1912 to 1916 with his mother and brothers in Vienna , in the Pratercottage , on the edge of extensive green spaces. Then they moved to Switzerland because of the war. While Canetti's mother and brothers settled in France after the war, he moved back to Vienna in 1924 and studied chemistry there, with no real interest in the subject ( doctorate in 1929). On the side he pursued his actual interests, which concerned literary matters and a wide range of philosophical subjects. In 1924 Canetti met his future girlfriend (and from 1934 his wife) Veza Taubner , who shared his passion for literature (and later began his own writing) and who encouraged Canetti in his lofty writing plans. For the time of his studies, however, these were limited to declarations of intent and finger exercises.

For four years Canetti attended the lectures of the critic and satirist Karl Kraus , whom he (like many of his contemporaries) adored fanatically at the time. He also collected material for his project of a study on the phenomenon of mass, which he did not seem to have adequately understood by scientists like Le Bon or Sigmund Freud . Personal experiences such as demonstrations in Frankfurt (at the murder of Rathenau in 1922) and above all during the fire in the Vienna Palace of Justice (1927) reinforced his intention.

Canetti gradually expanded his circle of acquaintances, although he avoided politically and literarily conservative circles. He had contact with representatives of the political left ( Ernst Fischer , Ruth von Mayenburg ), with whom he sympathized, but without wanting to be politically active. In 1927 he fell in love with the Hungarian poet Ibby Gordon , who went to Berlin in early 1928 . At her invitation, Canetti (without Veza) spent the summer of 1928 in Berlin, where he worked for the Malik publishing house . This stay was very important to him because it brought him into contact with the local artist scene, namely with John Heartfield , Wieland Herzfelde , George Grosz , Bertolt Brecht , as well as Isaak Babel and the actor Ludwig Hardt . The comparison between cozy Vienna and the “madhouse” Berlin inspired him to write his novel Die Blendung , which he wrote in 1930/31. A year later, the drama Wedding was written , another year later The Comedy of Vanity . All three works were initially unpublished, but through readings from the novel and the dramas Canetti got to know numerous artists and intellectuals, including the sculptor Fritz Wotruba , who became one of his closest friends, the artist Anna Mahler (with whom Canetti fell unhappily in love), the scholar Abraham Sonne ("Dr. Sonne", later Avraham Ben Yitzhak ), the writer Hermann Broch , the composer Alban Berg , the conductor Hermann Scherchen and the writer Robert Musil . His increasing popularity finally made it possible for Canetti to publish Die Blendung , but his further writing career (as well as that of his wife) could not progress in the increasingly anti-Jewish climate of the thirties, and after the "annexation" of Austria to National Socialist Germany in 1938 he was looking for it stateless couple after an opportunity to leave the country.

London (1939–1971)

At the turn of the year 1938/1939 the Canettis emigrated via France to England, where they settled under frequently changing addresses in or near London, mostly in separate apartments for years. You had not had a particularly civil-conventional marriage in Vienna. Their relationship with one another was both close and distant, a mixture of marriage and friendship. Veza not only provided a large part of the overall very meager income through commissioned work, but also saw herself as a supporter of the work of her husband, which she encouraged to work. Canetti - himself extremely jealous - had long-term relationships with other women at the same time, and Veza Canetti knew about these "concubines": the writer Frieda Benedikt (pseudonym Anna Sebastian ), who Canetti still knew from Vienna, and the painter Marie- Louise von Motesiczky , whom he exploited financially and otherwise put off. The acquaintance with the writer and professor Iris Murdoch also led to an affair lasting several years, which Canetti described in the book Party im Blitz , published by Hanser Verlag in 2003 : The English Years . The married Canetti's relationships were quite difficult and marked on his part by great jealousy. Marie-Louise von Motesiczky once painted him as a rat, Iris Murdoch called him the “magician”.

After moving to England, Canetti concentrated entirely on researching his long-planned book on the crowd and published practically no new works for twenty years. Only Die Blendung appeared in a highly regarded English translation in 1946, which, in combination with his colorful personality and general curiosity about people, made him well-known among London's intellectual and artistic circles. Canetti associated with other German-speaking exiles such as Franz Baermann Steiner , Hans Günther Adler and Erich Fried , as well as with British scholars and artists, including Bertrand Russell , Dylan Thomas and Arthur Waley . He settled in relatively quickly in England, which is certainly also due to the fact that he (like his wife Veza) spoke good English. Unlike many emigrants, Canetti stayed in England even after the end of the war, and in 1952 he acquired British citizenship .

Except for his sometimes tense personal relationships, Canetti lived an outwardly calm life. He occasionally traveled to Great Britain and the rest of Europe ( Provence , Italy , Greece ), only a three-week trip to Marrakech (about which he later published a volume with travel records) took him to non-European countries in 1954. For him, encounters with foreign cultures through books, be it in the form of collections of myths and fairy tales or travelogues, have always been more important than such trips. Canetti's extensive readings were by no means limited to these areas.

The manuscript of his main philosophical work Mass and Power was well advanced in the 1950s, but Canetti still hesitated to publish it. He dealt again with a few literary projects, but only the 1956 drama The Temporary Workers , performed with moderate success, was completed. When Mass and Power was finally published by a German publisher in 1960 , Canetti was disappointed by the rather low response that the book generated. Canetti became known to the literary public only very gradually, even after the Munich-based Hanser-Verlag started not only adding early Viennese works to its program from 1963, but also more recent works. But the regular new publications meant that Canetti became more present in public in the 1960s and 1970s: through readings and interviews, through performances of his plays and by receiving literary prizes (see section Prizes and Awards ).

However, Canetti's joy over the slowly increasing success was considerably clouded by the death of his wife Veza in May 1963 - another experience of death in the closest circle of friends and family after his father died in 1912, his mother in 1937 and Friedl Benedikt in 1953. Eight years later, in 1971, Canetti's beloved brother Georges Canetti also died of a long-standing lung disease.

Zurich (1972–1994)

In the 1960s, Canetti's acquaintance with the art restorer Hera Buschor (* 1933, † 1988), who worked in Zurich, developed into a love affair. As a result, Canetti stayed in Zurich quite often, and after the two married in 1971 and Canetti's only child Johanna was born a year later, Canetti moved to live with his family in Zurich, the city that he had loved since his youth in Switzerland had closed. Although he kept his apartment in London-Hampstead (Thurlow Road 8) as well as his British citizenship, he only occasionally retired there to work.

In addition to the records kept, this work mainly consisted of his life story. For many years Canetti had become more and more drawn to the genre of the autobiography, and after overcoming some concerns about the relevance of such an enterprise, he began work on the first volume on his childhood and youth by 1921, The Saved Tongue . This suggests a motif that Canetti has repeatedly taken up:

“When I think of the early years, the first thing I recognize is their fears, of which they were inexhaustibly rich. I only find many now, others that I will never find must be the secret that makes me want to live forever. "

Other projects like the continuation of the Study of the Masses or his book against death took a back seat. Canetti, who was very often dissatisfied with his literary production, probably no longer thought he would be able to realize it.

In Switzerland, Canetti lived much more withdrawn than before. That was in large part due to the happy family life he led and which was free from the tensions of his past love affairs. But the popular success of his autobiography, published in 1977, as gratifying as it was for Canetti, suggested such a retreat. When he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature for his literary work in 1981, he decided not to give any more interviews or to hold readings. Canetti's family idyll was severely disrupted when his much younger wife Hera fell ill with cancer, to which she finally succumbed in 1988.

Canetti's grave in Zurich

Elias Canetti died in Zurich in 1994 at the age of 89 and was buried there in the Fluntern cemetery. At his request, his estate can be found in the Zurich Central Library . Most of this estate (drafts, records, the library of around 20,000 volumes) is available for research, but Canetti banned a certain “private” part (Canetti's diary, large parts of his correspondence) for 30 years after his death - this one can therefore only be viewed from 2024.

personality

Canetti's autobiographies and the reports of his visitors - such as Hans Bender or Manfred Durzak - contributed significantly to seeing in Canetti “only” the wise, hospitable literary ascetics and book people. It is only thanks to the current biographies and the posthumous volumes of published correspondence that this stylized picture is put into perspective. Canetti - it seems - was not just a researcher of power, but a man who wanted power. As can be seen from his letters, among other things, he was regarded as a difficult, vain and irascible man, at the same time as a selfish heartthrob who couldn't handle money.

His autobiographical works - if they show an “uncolored” picture of his life at all - thrive, among other things, on his encounters with a large number of important personalities and his ability to describe people by reducing them to characteristic, unusual details and habits (rather: according to his taste interpret). Alma Mahler-Werfel , the mother of Anna Mahler, whom he admired, for example, he described in his autobiography Das Augenspiel as a "melted old woman on the sofa", as a "bursting widow" who has gathered the trophies of her life around her. In the portrait that Oskar Kokoschka had painted of his former lover, he saw "the murderess of the composer Gustav Mahler ".

Some of these portraits were viewed as hurtful exposures, such as the devastating passages about Canetti's former lover Iris Murdoch in Party im Blitz , the posthumously published volume about his London years. Many of his contemporaries report occasions when Canetti behaved maliciously or heartlessly towards others. Hilde Spiel called it a “real lethal injection”, the economist Eduard März was shocked by Canetti's tendency to ridicule harmless contemporaries and the literary critic (and later Murdoch's husband) John Bayley satirically described Canetti's role in the London intellectual scene as “the godmonster of Hampstead ” . Nevertheless, Canetti was considered by most of the people who knew him to be a witty and funny entertainer, whose personality (and small stature) remained in the memory.

Writing

Canetti's work received attention late; the most recent biographies reveal how much his middle decades of life played out in relative poverty, insecurity and fear of the future. He can be considered eccentric: his life was dedicated to literature; Canetti did not pursue a job. He wrote three dramas, the novel Die Blendung , for which he received the Nobel Prize in 1981 and from which he distanced himself in old age, essays and travelogues, diaries, character miniatures and thousands of notes, which many critics consider to be the "lasting" part of his Complete works are considered. Canetti also began publishing a multi-part autobiography cycle. The cycle begins with the rescued tongue , followed by The Torch in the Ear and later The Eye Play . Canetti was unable to complete the series before his death, but has provided detailed information about the use and publication of his estate. In the meantime, Party in Blitz appeared. The English years as a continuation of the life story, which, however, is formally and structurally different from the first three volumes due to its incompletion - this was taken into account by the break in the title order.

In addition to the records , his philosophical work Mass and Power should be emphasized. It is not to be understood as a strictly sociological study, but contains many elements from anthropology and psychology , methods of ethnology and sprinkles from zoology. In the work Canetti explores a topic that preoccupied him for 30 years since he witnessed a demonstration on the occasion of the murder of Walther Rathenau in 1922 and the mass riot in front of the burning Palace of Justice in Vienna in 1927. What is a mass? Why does a mass emanate a fascination from which one can hardly escape as an individual? How is a mass formed and what "regularities" does the actually chaotic crowd follow? Mass movements are a modern phenomenon . The preoccupation with the topic is very popular in the 1930s to 1960s. The political effectiveness of mass movements has been undisputed since the French Revolution . With the emergence of the working class , the social role of the masses is even more emphasized. Canetti's basic thesis is that the individual, intent on spatial delimitation, can put aside his social constraints as well as fear of contact and death in the crowd. Social differences are leveled out and people regain their freedom.

Canetti calls the psychological process that takes place within the crowd “discharge”. Based on Freud, he developed the thesis that people, in addition to basic needs for food, drink and affection, also have a mass drive. In doing so, the crowd loses its original negative connotation . Masses appear as something natural and necessary.

Canetti differentiates between closed and open masses. Structurally closed masses, for example, are mostly “institutionalized masses” of the churches. They have rules and ceremonies that "intercept" the crowd. "Better a secure church full of believers than the insecure whole world." The institution thus represents a taming of the mass drive.

The open mass is full of destructiveness and in the modern age is mostly free of anything religious. Her primary goal is to grow. It needs a "direction", a goal that lies outside each individual and a "rhythm" that ensures its cohesion. The formation of a mass often requires a “mass crystal”, a solid, permanent group around which the mass can grow.

Another distinguishing feature of the masses is the "sustaining affect": According to this, there is a difference between the agitation mass, which is out to kill and also occurs in the animal kingdom, the escape mass, also known from the animal kingdom, the prohibitive mass, which rebels against existing rules that they no longer wants to obey, the reverse mass, which is directed against the former rulers, and the fixed mass.

Furthermore, in this work Canetti derives the human sense of power from the confrontation with death and the experience of survival. Mass and Power became Canetti's best-known, but also most controversial, book.

Works

Original editions

The blinding

• The glare . Novel. Reichner, Vienna 1936.
• Fritz Wotruba . Preface by Klaus Demus . Rosenbaum, Vienna 1955.
• Mass and power . Claassen, Hamburg 1960.
• The temporary . Drama. Hanser, Munich 1964; 2. A. ibid. 1982, ISBN 3-446-13567-7 .
• Wedding . Drama. Hanser, Munich 1964; 2. A. ibid. 1981, ISBN 3-446-13467-0 .
• Comedy of vanity . Drama in three parts. Hanser, Munich 1964, ISBN 3-446-10941-2 , Reclam, Stuttgart 1986, ISBN 3-15-007678-1 .
• Records 1942–1948. 1965.
• The voices of Marrakech . Records after a trip. 1968.
• The other process. Kafka's letters to Felice. 1969.
• All wasted worship. 1970. Hanser 50 series
• The divided future . Essays and Conversations, 1972. Series Hanser 111
• The province of man. Records 1942–1972. 1973.
• The ear witness. Fifty characters. 1974.
• The conscience of words. Essays. 1975.
• The saved tongue. History of a youth , 1977 (= autobiography, part 1), Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1979, ISBN 3-596-22083-1 .
• The torch in your ear . Life story 1921–1931 , Hanser, 1980 (= autobiography, part 2), Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1982, ISBN 3-596-25404-3 .
• The eye game. Life story 1931–1937 , 1985 (= autobiography, part 3), Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1988, ISBN 3-596-29140-2 .
• The secret heart of the clock. Records 1973–1985. 1987.
• The fly agony. Records. 1992.
• Supplements from Hampstead. From the records 1954–1971. 1994.
• Records 1992-1993. 1996.
• Recorded 1973–1984. 1999.
• About animals . With an afterword by Brigitte Kronauer . Hanser, Munich 2002
• Party in the flash. The English years. 2003 (= autobiography, part 4).
• About death . Hanser, Munich 2003.
• About the poets . With an afterword by Peter von Matt . Hanser, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-446-20470-9 .
• Notes for Marie-Louise . Hanser, Munich 2005.
• Essays - speeches - conversations . Hanser, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-446-18520-8 (= Collected Works, Volume 10).
• Letters to Georges (with Veza Canetti). Hanser, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-446-20760-0 ; Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 2009, ISBN 978-3-596-18184-1 .
• Lover without address. Correspondence 1942–1992 (with Marie-Louise von Motesiczky). Hanser, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-446-23735-3 .
• Rudolf Hartung . Letters, autobiographies and photos . Edited by Bernhard Albers. Rimbaud , Aachen 2011, ISBN 978-3-89086-470-9 .
• The book against death . With an essay by Peter von Matt . Hanser, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-446-24467-2 (published posthumously at Canetti's request).

Collective editions

• Dramas: Wedding - Comedy of Vanity - The Temporary . Hanser, Munich 1964; Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 1978, ISBN 3-596-27027-8 .
• Collected Works . 10 volumes in separate editions. Hanser, Munich 1992-2005.
• Works . 13 volumes and a companion volume word masks in a cassette. Fischer Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 1995, ISBN 3-596-13050-6 .

Sound carrier

• Elias Canetti reads The Ear Witness - Characters (1 LP) (Deutsche Grammophon 2570 003), 1975.
• The rescued tongue and the ear witness - excerpts from the reading in Hoser's bookstore on October 6, 1978 (1 LP) (Hoser's bookstore, Stuttgart, no number), ISBN 3-921414-03-2
• The audio work 1953–1991 (2 CD). Prose, dramas, essays, lectures, speeches, conversations. Frankfurt / M .: Zweiausendeins Verlag, 2006.
• The glare , with Manfred Zapatka , Birgit Minichmayr u. a. The Hörverlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-86717-893-8 . 12 CD.

Awards

Street sign in Vienna-Favoriten

• 1949: Prix ​​du Meilleur livre étranger , France, for The Glare
• 1966: German Critics' Prize
• 1966: Literature Prize of the City of Vienna (May 16)
• 1967: Grand Austrian State Prize for Literature (presented on January 25, 1968)
• 1969: Literature Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts
• 1971: Honorary gift from the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft in the BDI e. V.
• 1972: Georg Büchner Prize of the German Academy for Language and Poetry
• 1972: Austrian Decoration of Honor for Science and Art (October 31)
• 1975: Nelly Sachs Prize
• 1975: Franz Nabl Prize of the City of Graz
• 1977: Gottfried Keller Prize
• 1979: Pour le Mérite
• 1980: Johann-Peter-Hebel-Prize of the State of Baden-Württemberg
• 1981: Nobel Prize in Literature
• 1981: Franz Kafka Prize of the City of Klosterneuburg
• 1983: Great Cross of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1984: Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
• 1985: Honorary Citizen of the City of Vienna (April 26, ceremony on April 22, 1986)
• 2004: Naming of Canetti Peak on Livingston Island, South Shetland Islands, Antarctica
• 2010: Naming of Canettistraße in Vienna- Favoriten

Canetti was first nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1969 by Keith Spalding, Professor of German Philology at the University College of North Wales , Bangor.

literature

• Penka Angelova: Elias Canetti - Traces of Mythical Thinking. Zsolnay, Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-552-05327-1 .
• Dagmar Barnouw: Elias Canetti. Metzler, Stuttgart 1979, ISBN 3-476-10180-0 (extensive bibliography, small essays by and about Canetti, reviews, secondary literature up to 1976).
• Salvatore Costantino (ed.): Ragionamenti su Elias Canetti - Un colloquio palermitano. Franco Angeli, Milan 1998, ISBN 88-464-0582-X (essays by Manfred Durzak, Roberto Esposito, Giulio Schiavoni, Franz Schuh, Hans Georg Zapotoczky and Salvatore Costantino on Canetti).
• Friederike Eigler: The autobiographical work of Elias Canetti. Stauffenburg, Tübingen 1988, ISBN 3-923721-37-4 .
• Helmut Göbel: Elias Canetti. Rowohlt Taschenbuch, Reinbek 2005, ISBN 3-499-50585-1 .
• Sven Hanuschek: Elias Canetti. Biography. Carl Hanser, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-446-20584-5 .
• Sven Hanuschek (ed.): The future fat. New contributions to the work of Elias Canetti. Neisse, Dresden 2008, ISBN 978-3-940310-40-8 .
• Sven Hanuschek, Kristian Wachinger (ed.): Elias Canetti: I expect a lot from you. Letters 1932-1994. Hanser, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-446-26019-1
• Rudolf Hartung : Elias Canetti. A recipient and his author. A documentation. Rimbaud, Aachen 1992, ISBN 3-89086-885-1 .
• Felix Philipp Ingold: Until the last breath (to Elias Canetti). In: Same: On behalf of the author. Works for art and literature. Wilhelm Fink, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-7705-3984-2 , pp. 83-116.
• Konstantin Kaiser: The distancing of power: Elias Canetti and the Vienna group. In: Zwischenwelt. Journal of the Culture of Exile and Resistance. Vol. 20, 2003, No. 2, pp. 4-6, ISSN  1606-4321 .
• Thomas Lappe: Elias Canetti's notes 1942–1985. Model and dialogue as constituents of a programmatic utopia. Alano, Aachen 1989, ISBN 978-3-924007-76-8 .
• Thomas Lappe: The record: Typology of a literary short form in the 20th century. Explicit passages from Elias Canetti's notes. Alano, Aachen 1991, ISBN 978-3-89399-108-2 .
• Antonello Lombardi: La scuola dell'ascolto. Oralità, suono e musica nell'opera di Elias Canetti. Ut Orpheus Edizioni, Bologna 2011, ISBN 978-88-8109-474-5 .
• Werner Morlang (Ed.): Canetti in Zurich: Memories and Conversations. Nagel & Kimche in Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-312-00353-9 .
• Carol Petersen: Elias Canetti. Colloquium, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-7678-0774-2 .
• Edgar Piel: Elias Canetti. Beck, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-406-09588-7 .
• Erich W. Schaufler: Elias Canetti's autobiography in the German press (= Studies in German Language and Literature. Vol. 11). Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston et al. a. 1992, ISBN 0-7734-9593-2 .
• Ines Schlenker, Kristian Wachinger (Ed.): Lovers without an address. Marie-Louise von Motesiczky and Elias Canetti, correspondence from 1942–1992. Hanser, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-446-23735-3 .
• Alexander Schüller: name mythology. Studies on Elias Canetti's writings and poetic works . Berlin, Boston: de Gruyter Oldenbourg 2017 (Conditio Judaica; 91), ISBN 978-3-11-050163-6 .
• Fatih Tepebasili: Elias Canetti: The feeling of absolute responsibility. The science in Elias Canetti's novel "The Blinding" and "Records". Çizgi Yayınları, Konya 2003, ISBN 975-8156-97-7 .
• Kristian Wachinger: Elias Canetti. Pictures from his life. Carl Hanser, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-446-20599-3 .
• Sylwia Werner: reading pictures. Studies on visuality in Elias Canetti's works. Winter, Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-8253-6219-5 .
• Robert Hugo Ziegler: Clarity and ambiguity. On the problem of the method in Elias Canetti's thinking . In: Same: Apeirontology . K & N, Würzburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-8260-6006-9 , pp. 9-64.

Web links

Commons : Elias Canetti  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikiquote: Elias Canetti  - Quotes

• Literature by and about Elias Canetti in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Elias Canetti  in the German Digital Library
• Elias Canetti's estate in the Zurich Central Library
• Rüdiger Zymner: Canetti, Elias. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
• Janca Imwolde: Elias Canetti. Tabular curriculum vitae in the LeMO ( DHM and HdG )
• Entry on Canetti, Elias in the Austria Forum  (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
• Elias Canetti in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
• Short biography and reviews of works by Elias Canetti at perlentaucher.de
• Information from the Nobel Foundation on the award ceremony 1981 to Elias Canetti (English) and a banquet speech (German)
• Elias Canetti on his 100th birthday - 3sat
• International Elias Canetti Society
• Elias Canetti - the ear witness of the century (PDF; 7.6 MB) International Elias Canetti Society Rousse
• Critical reminder of Canetti by contemporary witness Eduard März
• Hilde play about Canetti
• Elias Canetti in the online archive Austria "am Wort" of the Austrian Mediathek (audio recordings)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Les frères Canetti. ( Memento of December 1, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) on the Institut Pasteur website .
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Janca Imwolde: Elias Canetti. Tabular curriculum vitae in the LeMO ( DHM and HdG )
3. ↑ Martina Barth: Canetti versus Canetti. Identity, power and mass in Elias Canetti's literary work. Lang, Frankfurt am Main 1994, ISBN 3-631-47192-0 , p. 20.
4. ↑ Andreas Nachama, Gereon Sieverich (ed.): Jüdische Lebenswelten. Catalog . 1992, ISBN 3-633-54047-4 , pp. 755 .
5. ↑ District Museum Hietzing Canetti lived on Hagenberggasse in Hietzing , with Veza on Ferdinandstraße in Leopoldstadt
6. ↑ Elias Canetti: The torch in the ear. Life story 1921–1931. Hanser, Munich / Vienna, 1980, ISBN 978-3-446-14443-9 , pp. 93-94
7. ↑ Elias Canetti: The torch in the ear. Life story 1921–1931. Frankfurt am Main 1982, p. 111. cit. n. Harry Merkle: The artificial blind. Blind figures in texts by sighted authors. ISBN 978-3-8260-1712-4 , Diss. Marburg 1997, Würzburg 2000, p. 36.
8. ↑ Dissertation in the Austrian Union Catalog
9. ↑ Sven Hanuschek: The man who bowled with people . On the occasion of his hundredth birthday: How Elias Canetti managed not to live with women. In: The world . July 23, 2005.
10. ^ Franz Haas: The Sultan of Hampstead. Eerie and monstrous - Elias Canetti's correspondence with Marie-Louise von Motesiczky. NZZ, January 7, 2012, p. 19
11. ↑ The Motesiczkys - Still Life with Cello, Hunting Dog and Easel - TV documentary ( ORF 2006)
12. ↑ Jeremy Adler, Rüdiger Görner and Michael Krüger: German-speaking exiles in London under the sign of the Shoah. Internationales Kolleg Morphomata - University of Cologne, November 7, 1916, accessed on March 20, 2017 . 
13. ↑ Elias Canetti: Mass and Power. Verlag Hanser, Munich 1960, ISBN 3-446-11746-6 , p. 20.
14. ↑ ^{a b c} Awards for Elias Canetti in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
15. ↑ kulturkreis.eu: 1953–1989 sponsorship awards, honorary gifts  ( 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. (accessed on March 30, 2015)  
16. ↑ Honorary Members: Elias Canetti. American Academy of Arts and Letters, accessed March 7, 2019 . 
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18. ^ Canettistraße in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna
19. ^ List of candidates for the Swedish Academy 's 1969 Nobel Prize in Literature , accessed on January 16, 2020

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