It is considered one of the most brilliant works by the Austrian author Arthur Schnitzler: the short story "Ich" tells the story of a well-behaved clerk who discovers a wooden plaque with the word "Park" on it during his usual walk through a Viennese park. After briefly doubting the meaning of such a board, he is so convinced of the necessity of clear linguistic order that he develops the compulsion to label everything around him with written notes. Using the example of the story of Mr Huber, the novella makes more or less ironic references to the positions of a widespread "subject" and "language crisis" in the period around 1900, the researchers explain.

Schnitzler's version

Schnitzler's prose play, which he himself had not yet authorised for publication, was published posthumously in various versions from 1968 onwards. It is now being published for the first time in Schnitzler's final version, i.e. in a version that documents the authentic state of the surviving typescript with all of the author's handwritten corrections and notes.

The Wuppertal edition also presents the exact genesis of the text as well as all surviving documents of the work in the form of an initial sketch and a handwritten manuscript.

The new online version of the complete edition - available at www.schnitzler-edition.net - also contains a number of revisions and new features that affect all the works that have been digitally edited as part of Arthur Schnitzler: for example, unpublished sources are now presented for the first time, vividly illustrating the history of the creation, reception and adaptation of the individual works. They are offered as a new category on the interactive timeline ("Chronology") of each work.