Series Description
I. Papers (1906-1933)of the Bruno Cassirer publishing house including the original verdict of the Königlich Preussisches Landgericht Berlin in the 1906 obscenity case against Bruno Cassirer and Frank Wedekind, regarding Wedekind's Die Büchse der Pandora.
II. Papers (1916-1919)of the Paul Cassirer publishing house including ca. one hundred letters of correspondence between Paul Cassirer, Leo Kestenberg (Cassirer employee), Walter Hasenclever (author), and Fritz Neuberger (agent for O. Kokoschka and Hasenclever) mostly concerning the performance of Hasenclever's play Der Sohn and Kokoschka's paintings; also includes manuscripts by Eduard Bernstein, Hasenclever and Peter Meyer, and letters to the editor of the journal Pan, published by Cassirer.
III. Paul Cassirer papers: manuscripts for plays, short stories, poems, and fragments. (1890s and n.d.)
IV. Additions: 90.077 (85-02)
Container List
Series I. Bruno Cassirer Verlag Papers (1906-1933)
Preußisches Landgericht II, Berlin.
March 9, 1906.Court decision re: Frank Wedekind's Die Büchse der Pandora. (Gift of George Hill, 1979).
Mendelsohn, Franz V.
June 21, 1924.To Fritz Cassirer re: death of Julius Cassirer. (Gift of George Hill, 1980).
Grosz, George (1893-1959)and Eva.
(Dec. 1932).To [Bruno] Cassirer. (Gift of George Hill, 1978).
Hesse, Hermann (1877-1962).
Nov. 20, 1933,To Bruno Cassirer. Poem Besinnung. (Gift of George Hill, 1978).
2 Bruno Cassirer Verlag catalogs, 1936 [UNK]
Series II. Paul Cassirer Verlag Papers (1916-1919)
A. Cassirer-Kestenberg-Hasenclever-Neuberger Correspondence
Hasenclever, Walter (1890-1940)
Jan. 26, 1917.To Leo Kestenberg.
May 24, 1917.To Leo Kestenberg.
June 25, 1917.To Leo Kestenberg. (Gift of Peter Paret, 1979).
Cassirer, Paul (1871-1926)
July 27, 1917.To Walter Hasenclever.
July 30, 1917.To Fritz Neuberger.
n.d.,To (theater director). (Gift of Peter Paret, 1979).
Kestenberg, Leo
May 3, 1917-March 20, 1918.To Fritz Neuberger. (Gift of Peter Paret, 1979).
Neuberger, Fritz
July 27, 1917.To Paul Cassirer.
Jan. 27, 1918.To Paul Cassirer. (Gift of Peter Paret, 1979).
Neuberger, Fritz
Nov. 14, 1916-June 29, 1917.To Leo Kestenberg. (Gift of Peter Paret, 1979)
Neuberger, Fritz
July 1, 1917-March 21, 1919.To Leo Kestenberg. (Gift of Peter Paret, 1979)
Pan. (Journal published by Paul Cassirer Verlag). Incoming Correspondence: 1910-1911.
B. Manuscripts of Authors of the Paul Cassirer Verlag
Bernstein, Eduard (1850-1932)
Aug. 22, 1919.Forward to the works of Ferdinand Lassalle, published by Paul Cassirer, 1919. (Gift of Peter Paret, 1979).
Hasenclever, Walter (1890-1940)
Autumn 1917. Tod und Reichstag. Ein Flugblatt. Original manuscript with corrections, revisions; sent to Leo Kestenberg Nov. 4, 1917.
n.d. Gottes Hand in Lowen.
n.d. Der politische Dichter. (Gift of Peter Paret, 1979).
Meyer, Peter
n.d. Über die Form. (Gift of Peter Paret, 1979).
Series III. Paul Cassirer Papers
A. Manuscripts
Manuscript of the Novel Josef Geiger, incomplete, (Gift of Peter Paret, 1983).
Alternative Form of Materials Available
Manuscript of the Comedy Der gelbe Frack, two versions, (Gift of Peter Paret, 1983).
Manuscripts of short stories, plays, poems: (Gift of Peter Paret, 1983):
Der Anstoß
Eine Lüge
In der Nacht
Verheiratet
Der kleine Engel
Das Versprechen
Herr Frühling
Nocturno
Chapter 4
Fragments
Manuscripts of Plays (Gift of Peter Paret, 1986)
Schlaf, Kindchen, Schlaf (1894)
Der kleine Engel, (different version)
Fragment, n.d.,
Fragment, n.d.,
B. Books
Paul Cassirer, Fritz Reiner, der Maler (Dresden and Leipzig, 1894),(Gift of Peter Paret, 1983).
Paul Kahrs (=Paul Cassirer), Josef Geiger (Leipzig, 1895),(Gift of Peter Paret, 1983).
Alternative Form of Materials Available
Series IV. Additions:
90.077 Stefan Searge: n.d.
Fredrich Gundolf: 1 publishers announcement, 1932.
Envel in searge's hand to Gundolf