Preliminary Guide to the Richard Exner Papers

Arranged and described by Special Collections staff, latest revision J.Mundy 10/04/07.

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Preliminary Guide to the Richard Exner Papers

Collection number: UArch FacP 12

Department of Special Collections

Davidson Library

University of California, Santa Barbara

Processed by:: Arranged and described by Special Collections staff, latest revision J.Mundy
Date Completed:: 10/04/07
Encoded by:: A. Demeter

Descriptive Summary

Title: Richard Exner Papers

Dates: ca. 1950-1990

Collection number: UArch FacP 12

Creator: Exner, Richard

Collection Size: (16 boxes)

Repository: University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Dept. of Special Collections

Santa Barbara, CA 93106

Abstract: The collection contains bio-bibliographic files; correspondence; lectures, readings, and performances; research; UCSB and some Oberlin academic files; and writing files of UCSB German literature professor Richard Exner.

Physical location: SRLF.

Languages: English, German

Access Restrictions

Collection stored off-site, advance notice required for retrieval.

Publication Rights

Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.

Preferred Citation

Richard Exner Papers. UArch FacP 12. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Acquisition Information

Undetermined.

Biography

Richard Exner is a Professor Emeritus of German Literature, specializing in Hugo von Hofmannsthal, a 20th century poetry. He was born in Niedersachswerfen, Germany. He came to the United States to attend the University of Southern California, from which he received both his undergraduate and graduate degrees. He taught at University of Rochester, Princeton University, and Oberlin College before coming to UCSB in 1965, where he taught classes in German and comparative literature. Academically, he was distinguished for his work as a translator and a poet. During his tenure at UCSB, he was awarded both Fulbright research grants and a Guggenheim fellowships. In 1982 he was awarded the Alma Johanna Koenig Prize for literary excellence for his poem "Nach Auschwitz" and was elected to the P.E.N. Club, a World Association of Writers. He retired from teaching in 1992.

See UCSB UArch Biographical files for further biographical details.

Scope and Content of Collection

Arrangement

The collection contains the following series:

Bio-Bibliographic Files (Box 1), including his list of publications and his curriculum vitae.
Correspondence Files (Box 2), 1959-1991.
Lectures, Readings, and Performances Files (Box 3), 1959-1989.
Research Files (Boxes 4-6), various subject files on authors, with a substantial file on von Hofmannsthal.
UCSB Academic Files (Box 7-8), 1965-1983, with additional files from Oberlin College, 1961-1964.
Writing Files (Boxes 9-16) related to writings and translations, as well as copies of original works.

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.

Exner, Richard

Hofmannsthal, Hugo von, 1874-1929

German literature

Bio-Bibliographical Files

Box 1

Annual Supplements to Bio-Bibliography, 1967-1987

Box 1

Bibliographies of Exner's Work, 1965-1991

Box 1

Lists of Publications and Lectures (book), 1957-1984

Box 1

Miscellaneous Biographical Material, (includes biographies, curriculum vitae, dissertation abstract, announcement of Faculty Research Lecturer Award)

Box 1

Personnel Action Forms, 1979-1981

Box 1

Research/Travel Grant Proposals, 1964-1987

Box 1

Committee on Research: Grant Requests, 1965-1973

Box 1

Summer Grants, 1961-1986

Box 1

Sabbatical Leave Requests/Reports, 1975-1987

Box 1

Philosophy 570: Philosophy of History (class notes and a paper on Jacob Burckhardt), ca. 1951

Box 1

Guest Book for a Party at Anisqu' Oyo Park, February 24, 1979

Correspondence Files

Box 2

Chronological files 1960-1991

Subject files

Box 2

American Council for the Study of Austrian Literature, 1972-1974

Box 2

Australia, 1984

Box 2

Australia, FILLM Congress, Sydney, 1974-1975

Box 2

Austrian Institute, 1981-1984

Box 2

Carossa, Hans, 1983

Box 2

de Mendelssohn, Peter, 1975

Box 2

Ivask, Ivar, 1970, 1975

Box 2

Japan, 1984-1986

Box 2

Johns Hopkins University Press, 1974

Box 2

Neue Deutsche Hefte, 1966

Box 2

Referee Reviews / Criticism, 1965-1989

Box 2

Thomas Mann Symposium, 1975

Box 2

Viereck, Peter, re: Stefan George, 1981

Box 2

Waldt, Gustav, 1959

Lectures, Readings and Performances

Scope and Content Note

Mostly clippings of reviews and announcements

Box 3

Announcements of Poetry Readings and Lectures, 1959-1989

Box 3

Butor Lecture, "Travel and Creative Writing," 1973

Box 3

"The Death and Speech" and "The Hope of Silence," 1983

Box 3

Donauworth Kulturtage, 1987

Box 3

Lotte Lehmann Centennial Symposium, 1988

Box 3

Poetry – 2 Audiotape Reels, n.d.

Box 3

Readings, 1987

Box 3

Thomas Mann Symposium, 1975

Research Files

Subject Files

Box 4

Androgeny, 1977

Borchardt, Rudolf

Box 4

Early Papers by Exner, n.d.

Box 4

Copies of Articles by Others re: Borchardt, n.d.

Box 4

"Rudolf Borchardts Nachlass," 1990

Box 4

The House Guest, Englische Dichter, (writings by Borchardt)

Hoelderlin, Friedrich

Box 4

Early Papers by Exner, ca. 1950s

Box 4

Hoelderlin Gesellschaft, 1963-1974

Mann, Thomas

Box 4

Diaries Lecture/Article, 1979

Box 4

Internationales Thomas-Mann-Kolloquium, Lubeck, 1986

Box 4

Mann Papers, Archives, n.d.

Box 4

Reflexionen: notes, ideas, 1974-1975

Box 4

Symposium at UCSB, Nov. 14-15, 1975

Box 4

"The Uses of Tradition," 1974-1976

Piontek, Heinz

Box 4

"Der Umgang mit dem Helldunkel," review by Exner, 1987

Box 4

Papers and Translations by Exner, n.d.

Box 4

"Written at Riederau" (translation by Exner), 1968-1969

Rilke, Rainer

Box 4

"Alas Poor Rilke," (paper by Exner), n.d.

Box 4

Clippings: articles by others, 1921-1987

Box 4

Notes and Clippings, n.d.

Box 4

Preface to a New Edition of Duino Elegies, 1975

Strauss, Richard

Box 4

Garmisch Symposium, Munich, 1991

Box 4

Interview with Christiana Strauss, (transcript and audio cassette), n.d.

Hofmannsthal, Hugo von

Files

Box 5

Albany Lecture "Zum Problem des Tragischen...," n.d.

Box 5

Androgeny in Hofmannsthal and Mann: papers, correspondence and notes, 1979

Box 5

Bibliography and Some Letters, 1967-1968

Box 5

Contemporaneity: Rilke / Hofmannsthal / Kafka: clippings and notes, n.d.

Box 5

Correspondence, 1961-1987

Box 5

Correspondence re: Hofmannsthals Gesellschaft, 1968-1976

Box 5

Correspondence re: UCLA Trip, 1977

Box 5

Der Schwierige: Notes and Reviews, 1979

Box 5

Diary by Christiane von Hofsmannsthal, 1918-1919

Box 5

Gesellschaft, 1973-1982

Box 5

Gesellschaft Coloquium Salzburg, 1974

Box 5

Hofmannsthal: bibliographies, correspondence, papers (by others), n.d.

Box 5

Hofmannsthal Symposium, Vienna, 1979

Box 5

Index Nominum: letters from friends, publishers... re: Exner's book, 1976

Box 5

Index Nominum: reviews, 1977-1979

Box 5

Lebenslied: correspondence, clippings, notes, 1962-1963, 1974

Box 5

Lebenslied: reviews and correspondence, 1964-1977

Box 5

Reflexionen: clippings, notes, 1974

Box 5

Toronto Paper "Editing Hofmannsthal," 1970

Box 5

Reviews of Rolf Tarot's book, Hugo Von Hofsmannsthal..., including Exner's own review, 1970-1972

Books

Box 6

Hugo von Hofmannsthals Lebenslied by R. Exner. Heidelberg, 1964.

Box 6

Index Nominum zu H.v. Hofmannsthals Gesammelten Werken, Heidelberg, 1976.

Articles

Box 6

"Zur Essayistik Hugo von Hofmannsthal," Schweizer Monatshefte, May 1961.

Box 6

"Problemkreise der Hofmannsthal-Forschung," Schweizer Monatshefte, February 1967.

Box 6

"Zu Hugo von Hofmannsthals Lebenslied: Einige Addenda und Hinweise zum Verstandnis des Gedichts," Hofmannsthals Blatter, 1974.

Pamphlet Box

Box 6

Clippings and Photocopies: articles re:Hofmannsthal, n.d.

UCSB Academic Files

Academic Senate

Scope and Content Note

Arranged chronologically

Box 7

Academic Senate, 1965-1966

Box 7

Committees, 1966-1967

Box 7

Committee on Educational Policy, 1967

Box 7

Academic Senate, 1969-1970

Box 7

Committees, 1969-1970

Box 7

Committee on Undergraduate Courses, 1970-1971

Box 7

Committees, 1972-1973

Box 7

Special Committee, 1973

Box 7

Committee on Committees, 1974-1976

Administrative / German Department files

Scope and Content Note

Arranged alphabetically

Box 7

AAUP, 1972-1973

Box 7

Arts and Lectures, 1984

Box 7

College of Letters and Science, 1968-1981

Box 7

Committee on Research, 1965

Box 7

Committees, 1972-1986

Box 7

Foreign Language Requirement, 1971-1972

Box 7

German Club, 1980

Box 7

German Department Matters, all years

Box 7

Graduate Division- Minority Graduate Students, 1983

Box 7

Graduate Students (includes recommendations, exams, etc.), 1966-1981

Box 7

Helix, 1984

Box 7

Institute for the Study of Expressionism, 1980

Box 7

Intercampus Cooperative Program in German Area Studies, 1980-1981

Box 7

Lecture, Erich Heller, 1975

Box 7

Lecture, Michael Hamburger, 1966

Box 7

Lecture, Thomas Winner, 1981

Box 7

Lecturer Possibilities, 1984

Box 7

Mailing List for German Lectures, 1981

Box 7

Phi Beta Kappa, n.d.

Box 7

Regents Lecturer: Neufert, 1984

Box 7

Scholars Council, 1973

Box 7

Student Evaluations, 1983

Courses Taught by Exner at Oberlin and UCSB

Box 8

Courses Taught at Oberlin, 1961-1964

Courses Taught at UCSB (also includes some Oberlin material)

Box 8

German 137C – Hofmannsthal, Spring 1967

Box 8

German 139B – Mann, 1971

Box 8

German 159D – Mann/Bellow, Winter 1978

Box 8

German 162 – Kafta and Mann, Winter 1987

Box 8

German 187 / Music 287, 1978

Box 8

German 187 / Music 287 – Strauss / Hofmannsthal

Box 8

German 187 / Music 187, Spring 1987

Box 8

Music / German 187/287 – Strauss / Hofmannsthal

Box 8

German 235B – Mann, 1971, 1980, 1983

Box 8

German 235C – Rilke, 1969, 1976

Box 8

Seminar 235D – Hofmannsthal, 1968

Box 8

German 235D – Hofmannsthal, 1974

Box 8

German 240 – Hofmannsthal, 1965

Box 8

UCSB Extension Course X-429, 1966

Box 8

Other German Courses, n.d.

Box 8

Exams, 1964-1987

Box 8

Graduate Exams, n.d.

Box 8

Reading Lists, n.d.

Writings by Exner

Files

Box 9

Articles, Prose by Exner, 1950s-1980s

Box 9

Aus Lettern ein Floss, Reviews and Correspondence, 1984-1986

Box 9

Bartleby, (Opera libretto translated from English into German by Exner), ca. 1964

Box 9

Book Reviews by Exner, 1955-1983

Box 9

Corrected Copies, n.d. (probably 1980s)

Box 9

Difficult Passage, (translation by Exner), 1976

Box 9

Early Manuscripts, 1953-1959

Box 9

Ein Halber Himmel, Reviews and Correspondence, 1987-1989

Box 9

Fast ein Gesprach, Reviews and Correspondence, 1980-1986

Box 9

Mit Rauchloser Flamme, Reviews and Correspondence, 1982-1984

Box 9

Poetry: Manuscripts, Photocopies, 1975-1991

Box 9

Reviews of Exner's Writings, 1986-1989

Published Writings

Scope and Content Note

The following boxes contain offprints, clippings, and monograph copies of Exner's published writings. This finding aid provides only a general description of the contents of each box. A complete bibliography of Exner's work, including the printed material in this collection, is available in the Davidson Library Department of Special Collections.

Articles, Monographs, Offprints

Box 10

1955-1974

Box 11

1975-1990

Poems and Prose

Box 12

1954-1975

Box 13

1976-1983

Box 14

1984-1991

Box 15

Reviews, 1959-1989

Box 16

Translations, 1959-1990