Arthur Schnitzler – Reading Records

Photograph of Schnitzler in a blue tint. He is sitting in front of a bookcase. Text reading "Arthur Schnitzler: Lektüren, herausgegeben von Achim Aurnhammer, Digitale Edition der Leseliste von Arthur Schnitzler"
Photo Credits © Ludwig Michael

In the year 1905, Arthur Schnitzler compiled a typescript that listed all the authors and works he had read up to that point. He continued to maintain this reading list in handwritten form until 1928, shortly before his death. It was created as a memory aid and was not aimed at being comprehensive. It represents a quantitatively and qualitatively significant addition to the reading records noted in his diary, overlapping with them in only about a third of the works.

The printed edition was published in 2013 in the series „Akten des Arthur Schnitzler-Archivs Freiburg“ and is available from Ergon (Nomos). It is now being made digitally available for the first time here.

Contact

Martin Anton Müller

Project duration

11/2020–05/2021

Project partners

Arthur Schnitzler Archiv – Universität Freiburg

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