Thomas Mann—for Sophomore Seminar (Russell Berman). 2 Sept. 1999
1. Bibliography
2. Access to texts and other sources of information
3. Special Collections
Different levels of bibliography, each with specific
goals and scope of coverage:
National bibliography—not relevant
Disciplinary bibliography—coverage of the literature in a
field like German Studies or German literature
Personal or topical bibliography—narrowed to specific,
in-depth coverage of a subject or person.
Personal bibliography is sometimes restricted to publications by a
person, sometimes covers only the literature about a person, and sometimes
covers both.
·
Bibliographie
der deutschen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft.
Annual, disciplinary bibliography covering German language
and literature.
Classified bibliography, meaning the bibliographic
entries are divided chronologically and by subject category. Includes virtually all formats of
publication and both foreign (i.e., English-language) and German publications.
Began 1945; latest in print is the 1997 compilation, pub.
in 1998.
Known as Eppelsheimer-Köttelwelsch after two editors.
Shelved in the Humanities and Area Studies Resource
Center.
Coverage of Thomas Mann: 1. Look in the name index to
find all the entries, whatever the chronological or subject
classification. The 1997 compilation
alone offers roughly 200 entries.
OR, with a prominent author like Mann, look if there is a
rubric devoted to the author. In Mann’s
case, there is such a rubric in section XIV, “Jahrhundertwende,” with 150 or so
references. Subsections covering
journals, bibliography, editions of his works, research, documents, biography,
etc. Some 20 entries just in this year
are devoted specifically to the Zauberberg. Some English and other languages, though
mostly German.
·
Germanistik:
Internationales Referateorgan mit bibliographischen Hinweisen.
Annual, disciplinary bibliography covering German
language and literature.
Began 1960; latest in vol. 39 covering 1998.
Also a classified bibliography and access to material on
Thomas Mann is the same as for the Bibliographie:
name index or going directly to the rubric devoted to Mann (in the
classification covering “Naturalism to 1945.”)
More selective than the Bibliographie, but includes short annotations (almost mini-reviews)
for many entries, esp. monographs.
Thomas Mann: Roughly 75 entries in the name index, only
30 in his own section, for 1998. Less
than half that in the Bibliographie.
·
Georg Potempa. Thomas Mann—Bibliographie. Cicero Presse, 1997.
Like most personal bibliographies, in the Stacks in the
Z-classification.
Massive, exhaustive bibliography of the works of Thomas
Mann. Over 1600 pages. Possibly the most complete modern author
bibliography in German Studies.
Includes sections for translations into 50 or more
languages and interviews in an international array of newspapers and magazines,
with numerous indexes.
Publications are arranged by broad categories (novels,
short stories, collected works, etc.) then by date of first appearance.
Thus, Der
Zauberberg is listed under novels as his third novel. A short note tells us when the book was
written (July 1913 to Sept. 1924) and then 38 publications of the novel are
listed.
The first 10 are single German editions (Ausgaben, not Auflagen—these 10 editions alone cover approximately 200 printings
of the novel.)
11 through 21 are Lizenzausgaben. These are largely paperback or book club
editions, but they also include the East German edition, first published by
Aufbau in 1953 and reprinted five times through 1987.
22 through 32 are various partial editions published
before the first edition of the novel, mostly excerpts published in magazines
and including one five-day serialization in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung in 1920.
33 through 38 are partial editions published after the
first edition of the novel.
The second volume then lists translations of Zauberberg into some 32 languages, incl.
Bulgarian, Georgian, Hebrew, etc. It
also lists dozens of interviews concerned with the novel, including many
carried out while he was writing.
·
Bibliographies of studies and criticism of Thomas Mann
& his work.
* Klaus Jonas. Die Thomas-Mann-Literatur.
Project in cooperation with the Thomas-Mann-Archiv in
Zürich.
Three volume set: 1896-1955, 1956-1975, 1976-1994.
First vol. begins with a survey of manuscript collections
in the United States and Europe, incl. private collections. (Jonas was a
Germanist in the United States and the orig. publication of Jonas’ survey was
published in English as Fifty Years of
Thomas Mann Studies.)
The “Bibliographie der Kritik” then follows. It is not classified. The publications are organized by year of
publication, then by author. Access to
topics is by indices: author, work, subject (people, themes, honors), Zeitschriften. There are roughly 300 entries under Zauberberg, 14 entries under Georg
Lukacs, a dozen or so entries under Goethe, etc.
1955, the last year of vol. 1: 600 entries. 1975, last year of vol. 2: 978 entries.
1994, last year of vol. 3: 266 entries.
Compare to the 200 or so entries in the disciplinary bibliographies for
recent years. Obviously, coverage is
more focused and extensive, but the disciplinary bibliographies do pretty
well. Interesting trend in number of
publications.
·
Klaus Jonas. Fifty
Years of Thomas Mann Studies and Thomas
Mann Studies, Vol. II.
Bibliography of criticism (with an introduction by Thomas
Mann). Good review of criticism classified by theme and topic, such as
biography, autobiography, political writings, style & technique, etc. (This refers to the first vol., the second
is less well organized.)
There is a note on manuscripts in the second volume—basis
for the longer section in the German version.
There is a section for novels, with a sub-section on the Zauberberg—roughly 150 or so entries in
the first vol. and 200 or so in the index (no section) of the 2d
·
Die
Literatur über Thomas Mann: Eine Bibliographie 1898-1969. Exhaustive and well-organized bibliography
published in East Germany by Aufbau in 1972.
Over 14,000 entries organized by topic and with numerous
indexes.
Best bibliography and guide in English, selective, with
quite a few English-language citations.
Drawback: Vol. II published in 1967.
2. Access to Texts and Documentation
Publishing History:
·
The first ed. of Der
Zauberberg was published in two
volumes in 1924 by Fischer. Stanford
has several copies of the 1925 ed., which like the earlier ed. was published as
part of his Gesammelte Werke
·
English Translation by Helen Lowe-Porter first published
in 1927 by A. A. Knopf. We have many
editions, the earliest being the 1938 re-issue of the 1927 edition, in Green
. Other eds. are in Green or SAL.
·
Editions can be found in the Green Stacks and SAL. Includes eds. of collected works, individual
works, correspondence, and writings about Thomas Mann, including journals
devoted to Mann Studies.
Stacks: PT2625 (LC Classification)
SAL (and STK): 833.8.M28
Journals and monograph series
Biographies and guides
Interpretations (Reclam)
The Nobel Prize Internet Archive
www.almaz.com/nobel/nobel.html
Thomas-Mann-Archiv (ETH)
Good source of photographs, recent bibliography
(1994-98), links to e-texts, sound recordings, multimedia, sites for places
Mann visited, etc.
Thomas-Mann-Page.
Rich collection of texts and resources—chronology, dictionary, etc.
http://www.ciw.uni-karlsruhe.de/tmg/tmpage.html
3. Special Collections
Use of Special Collections.
Holdings: Includes some editions of Zauberberg and other works.
Also Kino, one of the
separately published excerpts.
Today: Letters by Thomas Mann.
Papers of Albert Guerard, Stanford professor until 1946
and father of Stanford professor. Half
dozen or so warm letters exchanged with Thomas Mann between 1940 and 1954, all
in English. Interesting that one letter
is both handwritten and typed in a clean copy—demonstrates Mann’s command of
English.
Papers of Norman Foerster. A miscellaneous author’s collection. Foerster was a writer (creative writing program at Univ. Iowa?)
who edited anthologies of literary and scientific writers, and his
correspondence includes the numerous authors with whom he worked, including
Mann. Letters with Mann are from the
late 1940s.
Two small collections relating to Ernst Bertram.
Correspondence with Josef Pichler and papers from Donald
Morgan.
Complicated story of Mann and Bertram.
Aufbau-Verlag collection: Catalog and brochure
collection. Portraits of authors
includes one of Thomas Mann. East German
perspective.