Arthur Schnitzler is among the most important Austrian authors and was a prolific and well- connected letter-writer. However, his correspondence has only been published in part. The project expands the digital edition of his correspondence with fellow writers edited between 2018–2021. It makes the following seven hitherto unpublished correspondences available in a critical digital edition: The complete exchanges with Felix Salten (1869–1945), Paul Goldmann (1865–1935), Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830–1916), Auguste Hauschner (1850–1924), Marie Herzfeld (1855–1940) and Karin Michaëlis (1872–1950).

In total, these are 1,035 letters. Their edition includes facsimiles and critical transcriptions, as well as further development of the several digital tools developed within the first project, including the the web service Personen der Moderne Basis PMB with more than 50,000 entities (persons, places, locations, organisations events) and the Schnitzler diary online which is already closely integrated into the letter edition and provides highly interesting material for comparative analysis. The data created is specifically prepared for re-use and long-term availability.

The project enables and includes research on scholarly aspects, most importantly, on intertextuality in Schnitzler’s writings, the creation of his public personae, prosopographical analysis, and a contribution to correspondence studies. Thus the project reaches two milestones in Schnitzler-correspondence edition: Adding the correspondences with Salten and Goldmann to the exchanges with Bahr, Beer-Hofmann, Hofmannsthal already edited, it will be possible for the first time to grasp Schnitzler’s professional network at his literary beginnings in its entirety. Also, all but one of the total of the author’s correspondences with female writers are finally available to research.