Later fame

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The working titles Later Fame and History of the Old Poet denotes a short story by Arthur Schnitzler that was not published during his lifetime and on which he wrote in the spring of 1894 and until 1895.

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Later fame

(edited 1977)

An official is discovered by a young generation of poets for his book Wanderings , published a long time ago, gives a lecture for the coffee house association Ideal , but ultimately realizes that his fame does not endure and that he is now an “old poet”.

Story of the aged poet

(Edited as Later Glory , 2014)

The writer Eduard Saxberger published the book “Walks” a long time ago, which was discovered by the up-and-coming literary association “Enthusiasm” at the time of the plot. The civil servant, who is about to retire, feels flattered by the enthusiastic attention of the circle. Raised a “master” by the young authors, he is supposed to contribute a new poem to the lecture evening of the circle and, after decades of literary abstinence, goes back in search of poetic inspiration. This remains in vain, however, because industrialized Vienna is no longer that of his youth when he wrote his volume of poetry. He realizes that as the aged leading figure of the enthusiastic young Vienna, he has become a comedy figure.

To the aged poet as a drama

(unpublished)

[The typewritten text contains reflections on how to translate the material into a drama. In the 1st act the discovery of Saxberger, in the 2nd act the reading, then plans for Saxberger's future.]

Lore

There are three texts preserved in the estate:

  1. “To the old poet as a drama”, sketch, dated 1990s, pag .: 1-5, typescript with handwritten corrections by Schnitzler, folder 212, sheet 6ff.
  2. Working title: "Later Ruhm", dated: March 31 to May 31, 1894, pag .: 1-4, typescript and handwriting Schnitzler, folder 164, sheet 1ff.
  3. Copy “History of the aged poet”, pag .: 1-208, typescript, folder 164, sheet 7ff.

Emergence

In On the Physiology of Creation , Arthur Schnitzler names a figure as an impulse for the text: “An old man who was once a poet, almost forgot it himself, and is now being put on the map by young people. ( The aged poet ) ”. His diary enables the stages of development to be traced:

1894

  • 30/3 "'Later fame' started-"
  • 7/9 “Read through the 'Late Glory'; doesn't seem too bad. "
  • 8/12 “In the afternoon I read my novella The Story of an Old Poet. Impression: Nice, some very good passages; on the whole a bit boring. "
  • 26/12 "Nm. Loris , Schwarzkopf , Rich ., Salten with me. Read 'The Story of an Old Poet'. Over 3 hours - liked very well; some lengths, some stilist. Sloppiness, not too sad at the end. "

1895

  • 22/5 “My short story 'Story of an Old Poet' corrected to the end; in places terribly written, on the whole without much warmth; some pretty spots.
  • In a letter to Beer-Hofmann dated June 24, 1895, he noted the end of the work before sending the text to Hermann Bahr for publication in Die Zeit (Wiener Wochenschrift) : “Yes, I deleted the old poet considerably; I still find it a bit boring though. The stylistic sloppiness ('I'm scared') is probably all outside. - […] At this moment the clerk is sitting in the next room and pagining the old poet. "
  • 17/7 "Greisen poet sent to Bahr."
  • 8/9 "In retrospect: Bahr sent the aged poet back to me under reproachful criticism. -"
  • 25/11 "Disgruntled with 'the aged poet', whom I read through and who displeased me most. -"

reception

Hermann Bahr rejected the dismantling into eight parts, which was necessary due to its size for printing at that time, and suggested shortening it by a third, since the text had lengths and a "certain weight".

The Arthur Schnitzler Archive in Freiburg im Breisgau gave references to the text in its estate directory published in 1969. In the selection of unpublished items from the estate, edited by Reinhard Urbach as an extension of Schnitzler's complete edition, Später Ruhm - the short typescript - was published for the first time and reference was made to the longer text, the printing of which "was previously omitted" because, as the publisher submitted in 2014, the longer text only dilutes the published shorter version, but does not add anything.

Controversy surrounding the 2014 edition

In May 2014 Zsolnay Verlag announced the first book edition of the longer version, whereby Schnitzler's title was discarded and that of the shorter texts was used. The advertising broadcast speaks of a “literary sensation [...] masterpiece” that has been “in the archive for years, unnoticed”. When several newspapers and news portals pointed out that the text had been lost, it was probably the addition of negligent editors, a so-called newspaper duck . As a result, debates arose as to whether it was a significant find and a relevant text, as well as the quality of the edition and whether it met scientific standards.

Quality of the text

On May 7th, a partial reprint appeared in the features section of the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , explaining the meaning: "There is a lot more of the great Schnitzler in this novella than its author himself might have suspected."

Numerous later reviews rated the quality of the text positively, for example Iris Radisch for Die Zeit , Simon Hadler for ORF , Anton Thuswaldner in the Salzburger Nachrichten , Judith von Sternburg in the Frankfurter Rundschau , Mathias Schnitzler in the Berliner Zeitung and Hubert Spiegel in the FAZ . The SWR best list determined by a jury ranked the book in first place in June 2014. Hans-Jost Weyandt wrote in Spiegel magazine: “An event for anyone interested in literature, even if they rightly mistrust the great reports about the sensational find.” Volker Weidermann wrote in the FAS of May 11, 2014: “What you can learn from his hundred and twenty year old text - and what even Karl Kraus could have learned from it - is an ironic look at yourself and the world.” And on May 15 ruled Andreas Breitenstein in the NZZ : "of great satirical entertainment value is the bestiary of, boys Vienna ', a typology of the coffee house literati with whom Schnitzler himself wrong at the time of friendship. (...) If the ridicule did not find its direct addressees at the time, it still hits home today - the fair of literary vanities is as crowded as ever. "

Klaus Nüchtern in the Falter , Werner Krause in the Kleine Zeitung , Ronald Pohl in the Standard , Wolfgang Huber-Lang in Southeastern Switzerland and Reinhard Urbach in the press made negative comments .

Criticism of the edition

Konstanze Fliedl , herself editor of the historically critical edition of Arthur Schnitzler's early work , rejected the “sensational find” on Deutschlandfunk , claiming that it was a long bibliographed text that was of poor literary quality. Daniela Strigl positioned herself more cautiously in the world of May 17, 2014 , who sees a similar subject in Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach's novella Ein Spätgeborener better dealt with, but finds Later Fame still worth reading. She chalked up the editors that they had "not only decided in favor of the new spelling, but also for taking over Heinrich Schnitzler's handwritten corrections without any justification". The corrections by Volker Breidecker in the Süddeutsche Zeitung of May 16, 2014 were problematized ; the Schnitzler manuscript expert Peter Michael Braunwarth interviewed by him judged a sample to come from Arthur Schnitzler (and not from his son Heinrich). In summary, Breidecker criticized the new publication very sharply as an "editorial scandal" and "misleading both the reading public and the scientific public". He rejected the information on the origin of the typescript template in the editor's afterword as "adventurous" and assessed the literary quality of the novella as not particularly high, but at least pointed to "two strong, almost dreamlike passages". The editor of the short sketch of the late fame , Reinhard Urbach, judged the longer text as 'Petitesse', which could be published, but which diluted the quality of the rest of the estate texts. The epilogue cheated on Schnitzler's negative attitude towards the text and misunderstood the portrayal of contemporaries such as Hugo von Hofmannsthal or Adele Sandrock , as these are actually the opposite of their real person. Renate Wagner accused both sides of having made mistakes, of the academic Schnitzler world for the lack of indulgence towards the “overzealous” finders, the editors for the “sensation”, who betrayed “a lack of sense of proportion”. The unproven caricature on the cover was made by the Austrian painter Bertha Czegka (1880–1954).

Adaptations

In the Ö1 broadcast audio books on May 29, 2014, it was announced that the ORF was planning a radio play adaptation of the novella. On January 13, 2018, the radio play adaptation was broadcast on Ö1.

expenditure

  • Arthur Schnitzler: Later fame . In: AS: Drafted and rejected. From the estate. Edited by Reinhard Urbach. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 1977, pp. 173-174.
  • Arthur Schnitzler: Later fame . Edited by Wilhelm Hemecker and David Österle. Zsolnay, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-552-05693-0 .
  • Arthur Schnitzler: Later fame . Read by Udo Samel , audio book Hamburg 2014.

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Cf. the catalog Kallias of the German Literature Archive Marbach , which lists the holdings of the Schnitzler estate in Cambridge and the estate directory: Neumann, Gerhard / Müller, Jutta: Der Nachlaß Arthur Schnitzler - directory of the in the Schnitzler archive of the University of Freiburg i. Br. Material. With a foreword by Gerhart Neumann and an appendix by Heinrich Schnitzler: Directory of the estate material available in Vienna. Munich 1969, p. 105.
  2. ↑ [1]
  3. ↑ Arthur Schnitzler: Diary 1893-1902. Edited by Commission for literary forms of use of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, chairman: Werner Welzig . Vienna 1989.
  4. ^ Arthur Schnitzler, Richard Beer-Hofmann: Correspondence 1891–1931 . Ed .: Konstanze Fliedl. Europaverlag, Vienna, Zurich 1993, p. 76-77 .
  5. ^ 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 , p. 104. See the mention of the work in the online presentation .
  6. ^ Neumann, Gerhard / Müller, Jutta: Der Nachlaß Arthur Schnitzler, p. 105.
  7. ↑ Schnitzler, Arthur: Designed and rejected. From the estate. Edited by Reinhard Urbach. Frankfurt am Main 1977, p. 513.
  8. ↑ a b Reinhard Urbach: Does he want to make a joke? , The Press , May 24, 2014
  9. ↑ Early Schnitzler novella discovered in Cambridge. In: derStandard.at. May 5, 2014, accessed December 5, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Der Spiegel , Die Presse and Tiroler Tageszeitung
  11. ↑ ORF
  12. ↑ Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, May 7, 2014, p. 9.
  13. ↑ Iris Radisch: Radisch's reading tip , Die Zeit online, May 16, 2014
  14. ↑ Simon Hadler: The "new" book by Arthur Schnitzler
  15. ^ Anton Thuswaldner: An attack on the literature business. A previously unknown novella by Arthur Schnitzler becomes a sensation - ( Memento from January 28, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  16. ↑ Judith von Sternburg: The old man and the enthusiasts, https://www.fr.de/kultur/literatur/alte-mann-begeisterten-11220766.html
  17. ^ Mathias Schnitzler: Novelle by Schnitzler - a marketing success, http://www.berliner-zeitung.de/literatur/-spaeter-ruhm--im-zsolnay-verlag-novelle-von-schnitzler---ein-marketingerffekt,10809200 , 27178652.html
  18. ↑ Hubert Spiegel: 'The great discovery, in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, No. 105, May 7, 2014, p. 9
  19. ↑ SWR best list, June 2014 .
  20. ↑ Hans-Jost Weyandt: Portrait of the poet as an old fool
  21. ↑ Volker Weidermann: We self-enthusiastic. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung , May 11, 2014.
  22. ^ Andreas Breitenstein: Literatur als Luftnummer , NZZ , May 15, 2014
  23. ↑ Klaus Nüchtern: What should you do with 'Later Fame'? In: Der Falter, Vienna, May 21, 2014, p. 33
  24. ↑ Werner Krause: Just a little bit of decomposition perfume ( Memento from October 10, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) In: Kleine Zeitung , May 16, 2014
  25. ↑ Ronald Pohl: Why poetry in poor time , Der Standard, May 17, 2014
  26. ↑ Wolfgang Huber-Lang: No “later fame” for Arthur Schnitzler , in Southeastern Switzerland, May 16, 2014
  27. ↑ "Not a sensational find". , Konstanze Fliedl in conversation with Burkhard Müller-Ullrich , Deutschlandfunk , May 10, 2014. Similarly in the Tiroler Tageszeitung on May 13, 2014: By no means a sensation
  28. ↑ Daniela Strigl: We call the one at the other table lacking talent , Die Welt, May 17, 2014
  29. ↑ Volker Breidecker: To the blue pear. No discovery, no sensation, no masterpiece - but an editorial scandal: Arthur Schnitzler's novella “Später Ruhm”. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung of May 16, 2014, p. 14.
  30. ↑ Reinhard Urbach: Does he want to make a joke? , The Press , May 24, 2014
  31. ↑ Renate Wagner: Arthur Schnitzler - Later fame . In: Der Online Merker, June 5, 2014.
  32. ↑ Daniela Strigl, s. O.
  33. ^ Ö1, audio books, May 29, 2014
  34. ↑ http://www.hoerbuch-hamburg.de/katalog/hh/detail/schnitzler-spaeter-ruhm-2804/