List of autobiographical works
The list of autobiographical works gives an overview of known autobiographies .
Antiquity
- Flavius Josephus , From my life . Edited by Heinz Schreckenberg, Manuel Vogel, Josephus working group of the Institutum Judaicum Delitzschianum, Münster, Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 2001. ISBN 978-3-16-147407-1 .
- Augustine of Hippo , Confessiones , 5th century
middle Ages
- Margareta Ebner , in: Philipp Strauch (ed.): Margaretha Ebner and Heinrich von Nördlingen. A contribution to the history of German mysticism. Freiburg i.Br. and Tübingen 1882. Faks.-Neudr. Amsterdam 1966. pp. 167-403: the letters. Digitized edition of the University and State Library Düsseldorf
- Heinrich Seuse , in: Heinrich Seuse. German writings. Edited by Karl Bihlmeyer. Stuttgart 1907 (reprinted Frankfurt a. M. 1961) online
- Heinrich Seuse, in: Heinrich Sese. Heinrich Seuse's German writings. 1. u. 2nd volume. Transfer u. a. v. Walter Lehmann. Jena 1911
- Heinrich Seuse, in: Des Mystikers Heinrich Seuse O. Pr. German writings. Introduced, transferred and explained by v. Nikolaus Heller. FH Kerle, Heidelberg 1926
- Friedrich Sunder , The grace life of Friedrich Sunder, monastery chaplain to Engelthal, in: Siegfried Ringler: Viten- und Revelationsliteratur in women's monasteries of the Middle Ages. Sources and Studies . Artemis, Munich 1980 (pp. 391-444).
Early modern age
- Wolfgang Ammon, (1903). Self-biography of the parish priest Wolfgang Ammon von Marktbreit († 1634). Mitget. v. Franz Huettner. In: Archiv für Kulturgeschichte, 1, pp. 50–98, 214–239, 284–325.
- Babur , Baburnama (English translation) , autobiography of the first Mughal ruler, created around 1525
- Johann Beer , (1965). His life told by himself. Edited by Adolf Schmiedecke. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
- Sigmund von Birken , (1988). Prosapia / Biographia. Edited by Dietrich Jöns u. Hartmut Laufhütte . Tübingen: Niemayer.
- Johannes Butzbach , Odeporicon. Hiking booklet . Manesse-Verlag, Zurich 1993, ISBN 3-7175-1842-9 (translated by Andreas Beriger )
- Johannes Butzbach (1912, unaltered reprint 1984). Johannes Butzbach's hiking booklet: Chronicle of a traveling student. Edited by DJ Becker. Neustadt an der Aisch: Schmidt.
- Johannes Butzbach (1991). Odeporicon: an autobiography from 1506. Introduction, translation and commentary by Andreas Beriger. Bilingual edition. Weinheim: VCH, Acta Humaniora.
- Ludwig von Diesbach : Ludwigs von Diesbach, Lord of Landshut and Diesbach, chronicle and autobiography. In: Schweizerische Geschichtsforscher, Volume 8 (1832), pp. 161–215 online in the Google book search
- Ludwig von Diesbach (1986). The autobiographical notes of Ludwig von Diesbach: Studies on late medieval self-portrayal in Upper Germany and Switzerland. Edited by Urs Martin Zahnd. Bern: Stämpfli.
- Giacomo Casanova , The Story of My Escape , first published in 1788
- Giacomo Casanova , The Story of My Life , first published 1822–1828
- Benvenuto Cellini , Mein Leben ( autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini ), created around 1557–1567, first published in 1728
- Lucas Geizkofler (1873). Lucas Geizkofler and his autobiography 1550–1620. Edited by Adam Wolf. Vienna: Braunmüller.
- Glückel von Hameln , memorabilia of Glückel von Hameln. Translated and edited. by Alfred Feilchenfeld. Jüdischer Verlag, Berlin 1913 (reprints of the 4th edition 1923: Athenaeum, Frankfurt 1987, ISBN 3-610-04699-6 and others; most recently: Philo, Bodenheim 1999, ISBN 3-8257-0073-9 ).
- Glückel von Hameln, The Memoirs of Glückel von Hameln. Translated by Bertha Pappenheim from the edition by David Kaufmann. Meyer & Pappenheim, Vienna 1910 (reprint with foreword by Viola Roggenkamp : Beltz, Weinheim 1994, ISBN 3-89547-040-6 ; paperback edition: Beltz, Weinheim 2005, ISBN 3-407-22169-X ; e-text at de. wikisource ).
- Augustin Güntzer (1896). Augustin Güntzer's strange life story. A cultural image from the century of the 30 years war. Tells about himself. In: Barmer Bücherschatz, 3. u. 4th volume. Barmen: Wupperthal Tract Society.
- Johann von Soest , in: Walther Karl Zülch (Hrsg.): Johann Steinwert von Soest. The singer and doctor (1448–1506). Frankfurt am Main 1920.
- Felix Platter (1976). Diary (biography) 1536–1567. Edited by Valentin Loetscher. Basel; Stuttgart: Swabian.
- Thomas Platter , Felix Platter (1878). Thomas and Felix Platter: On the moral history of the 16th century. Edited by Heinrich Boos. Leipzig: Hirzel.
- Thomas Platter (1944). Thomas Platter: biography. Edited by Alfred Hartmann. Klosterberg, Basel: Schwabe.
- Thomas Platter and Felix Platter: 2 autobiographies. A contribution to the moral history of the XVI. Century Edited by DA Fechter . Basel 1840 ( digitized version )
- Thomas Platter: biography . Edited by Alfred Hartmann , 3rd edition, Basel 2006, ISBN 978-3-7965-1372-5
- Johann Steinwert von Soest (1811). Johann von Soest's own biography. In: Frankfurt Archive for Older German Literature and History. Edited by JC v. Fichard. Frankfurt am Main: Gebhard & Körber. (Pp. 84–139)
- Franz Simon Meyer : The whole story of my indifferent life. Edited by Sebastian Diziol. Volume 1. 1816-1828. The teenage years. Solivagus Praeteritum, Kiel 2016. ISBN 978-3-9817079-3-9 . Volume 2. 1829-1849. In times of revolution. Solivagus Praeteritum, Kiel 2017. ISBN 978-3-9817079-6-0 .
- Pius II , Commentarii rerum memorabilium que temporibus suis contigerunt , 1463
- Lucas Rem (1861). Lucas Rem's diary from 1494–1541. Edited by B. Greiff. Augsburg: Hartmann.
- Andreas Ryff (1870). Autobiography of Andreas Ryff (until 1574). In: Contributions to patriotic history. 9th volume. Edited by the historical society in Basel. Basel: Georg.
- Bartholomäus Sastrow (1823-1824). Bartholomäi Sastrowen Origin, birth and course of his whole life. 1st to 3rd volume. Edited by Gottlieb Christian Friedrich Mohnike. Greifswald: University bookstore.
- Balthasar Sibenhar (1901). The autobiography of Balthasar Sibenhar, pastor in Beyerberg 1572–1601. Notified v. J. Bickel. In: Contributions to Bavarian Church History, 7/8. 7, pp. 256-274 and 8, pp. 32-48.
- Matthäus Schwarz , in: August Fink (Hrsg.): Die Schwarzschen Trachtenbücher . German Association for Art History, Berlin 1963.
- Matthäus Schwarz , Veit Konrad Schwarz , (1963). Schwarz's costume books. Edited by August Fink. Berlin: German Association for Art History.
- Hermann von Weinsberg : Overall edition project (digital ongoing)
- Digital edition project with historical and linguistic analysis of the records of the Cologne citizen Hermann Weinsberg (1518–1597) at the University of Bonn (accessed on July 19, 2012)
- Burkhard Zingg (= Burkart Zink), in: C. Hegel (Ed.): "The Chronicles of German Cities", Vol. 5, Leipzig 1866. S. XI-XLV.
Modern
- Louis Althusser : L'avenir dure longtemps , dt. The future has time , 1992
- Maya Angelou , I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings , 1969
- Hermann Bahr , self-portrait , 1923
- Herman Bang , The White House , Memoirs, 1898
- August Bebel , From my life , 1910–1914
- David Beckham , My Life , 2004
- Gerhard J. Bellinger , Whoever follows a star does not turn back. A pictorial biography , 2017
- Thomas Bernhard , The cause - the cellar - the breath - the cold - a child
- Walter Benjamin , childhood in Berlin around nineteen hundred
- Justin Bieber , Just the Beginning: My Life , 2011 (original: First Step 2 Forever: My Story , 2010)
- Bismarck , thoughts and memories
- Elias Canetti , Die gerette Zunge (1977), Die Fackel im Ohr (1980), Das Augenspiel (1985), Party im Blitz. The English Years (posthumous, 2003)
- Charlie Chaplin , The Story of My Life , 1964
- Sir Winston Churchill , World Adventure in Service , Leipzig 1931
- Hans Dominik , From vice to desk , 1942
- Kirk Douglas , The Ragman's Son , 1988, German: Path to Glory, ISBN 3-550-06426-8
- Johannes Ewald , Life and Views , 1778/1855
- Franz Michael Felder , From my life , 1869
- Joachim Fest , I don't , 2006
- Theodor Fontane : My Childhood (1893), From Twenty to Thirty (1998)
- Benjamin Franklin , autobiography of Benjamin Franklin , 1869
- Peter Franz , the red pastor of Kapellendorf. As a Christian and a socialist in this world , 2017
- Mahatma Gandhi , History of My Experiments with Truth , 1927 and 1929
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe , From my life. Poetry and Truth , 1833
- Emma Goldman , Living my life , 1931; German Lived Life , 2010
- Ulysses S. Grant , Memoir , 1885
- Günter Grass , Skinning the Onion , 2006
- Otto Hahn , From Radiothor to Uranium Splitting , 1962 - also: My Life , 1968
- Morten Harket , My take on me , 2016
- Heinrich Harrer , Seven Years in Tibet , 1952
- Max Hoelz , From the White Cross to the Red Flag , 1929
- Billy Idol , Dancing With Myself , 2014
- James Joyce , A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man , 1916
- Franz Jung , Der Weg naxh unten , 1961
- Helen Keller , The Story of My Life , 1903
- Ruth Klüger , Live on. A youth , 1992
- Arthur Koestler , Arrow in the Blue , London 1952; The secret script , Munich 1955
- Pyotr Alexejewitsch Kropotkin , Memoirs of a Revolutionary , 1899
- Wilhelm von Kügelgen , memories of an old man's youth , 1870
- Selma Lagerlöf , From my childhood days , 1930, Diary of Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf
- Michel Leiris , The Rules of the Game , 1948–1976
- Wolfgang Leonhard , The Revolution dismisses its children , Berlin 1955
- Primo Levi , Is that a person , in the original 1958
- Salomon Maimon , Salomon Maimon's Life Story , 1792
- Nelson Mandela , The Long Road to Freedom , 1994
- Thomas Gottschalk , autumn blonde , 2015
- Nadeschda Jakowlewna Mandelstam , The Century of Wolves , German 1971
- Karl May , My Life and Striving , 1910
- John Stuart Mill , Autobiography (Mill) , 1873
- Arthur Miller , Timebends , 1987
- Patrick Modiano , A Family Tree , 2005
- Heiner Müller , war without a battle. Life in two dictatorships. An autobiography , 1992
- Axel Munthe , The Book of San Michele , 1929
- Vladimir Nabokov , Speak, Memory , 1966
- Wolfgang Niedecken , For a moment , 2011
- Friedrich Nietzsche , Ecce homo , 1888
- Anaïs Nin , The Diary of Anaïs Nin , 1966–1976
- Amos Oz , A Story of Love and Darkness , 2002 (German 2004)
- Shlomo Perel , I was Hitler Youth Salomon , 1989
- Gina Pietsch , Mein Dörfchen Welt , 2017
- Thomas De Quincey , Confessions of an English Opium Eater , 1821
- Brigitte Regel-Bellinger , How I became what I am. Encounters on my path in life , 2017
- Marcel Reich-Ranicki , My Life - Marcel Reich-Ranicki , 1999
- Ludwig Renn , My Childhood and Youth , 1957
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau , Confessions , 1782
- Bertrand Russell , Autobiography (Russell) , 1967, 1969
- George Sand , Story of My Life , 1855
- Jean-Paul Sartre , The Words , 1964
- Arthur Schnitzler , Jugend in Wien , created 1915–1918, published in 1968
- Albert Schweitzer , From my life and thinking , 1933
- Victor Serge , Memoirs of a Revolutionary 1901–1941 , German 1991
- Johann Gottfried Seume , My Life , 1813
- Gertrude Stein , The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas , 1933
- Fritz Stern , Five Germany and One Life - Memories , 2007
- Ernst Toller , A Youth in Germany , Amsterdam 1933
- Leon Trotsky , My Life , Berlin 1930
- Richard Wagner , My Life , 1911
- Peter Weiss , Farewell to Parents , 1960
- Rosalia Wenger , Rosalia G. , 1978
- Anna Wimschneider , Herbstmilch , 1985
- HG Wells , Experiment in Autobiography , 2 volumes, London 1934
- Malcolm X , The Autobiography of Malcolm X , 1965
- William Butler Yeats , Autobiography (Yeats) , 1936
- Carl Zuckmayer , As if it were a piece of me , 1966
- Stefan Zweig , The World of Yesterday , 1942
- Otto Waalkes , cerebellum to all , 2018