Edition of the Literary Correspondences of Arthur Schnitzler

This project edits the correspondences of Arthur Schnitzler (1862-1931) with 85 writers and puts them on a common website with the digital diary of Schnitzler. This allows access to updated correspondences of those that need revision (the one with Hugo von Hofmannsthal) or were incompletely edited (the one with Richard Beer-Hofmann) as well as so far unpublished (eg Max Burckhard, Gustav Schwarzkopf, Jakob Wassermann). In addition to the already mentioned are among others correspondences with Lou Andreas-Salomé, Hermann Bahr, Otto Brahm, Georg Brandes, Gerhart Hauptmann, Siegfried Jacobsohn, Alfred Kerr, Karl Kraus, Heinrich Mann, Thomas Mann, Rainer Maria Rilke, Romain Rolland and Stefan Zweig. At the end of the project period, the research community and interested public will be provided with the professional and friendly network of the Viennese writer, including facsimiles, transcriptions and various indices, such as persons, works, local and organisational registers as well as sender and receiver locations. Schnitzler as a writer is one of the protagonists of the culture of letters so that editing his correspondence in addition to questions on biography and work can be suitable as a digital project exemplary for the cultural-scientific research of transnational networks and correspondence research. The project is located at the Austrian Center for Digital Humanities of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. This allows for side by side presentation of the correspondences with the digital diary of Arthur Schnitzler, currently developed at the same research location. The technical design of the project is deliberately pragmatic: the collection of the letters follows established international standards and the data is provided with an open copyright license. This makes it possible for all the project`s services to be extended and brought into new contexts without restriction by third parties.

2,576 letters to and from Arthur Schnitzler can now be viewed on the website https://schnitzler- briefe.acdh.oeaw.ac.at/. All have been checked against the originals in archives worldwide, just under 1000 letters have been edited for the very first time.