Sammeln und Inszenieren: Stefan Zweigs Sammelleidenschaft als Movens seiner Erkundungen künstlerischer Produktivität

The following article aims at introducing a planned PhD-project, as it has already been presented in the context of the research workshop of PhD-students (Centre de Recherche et d’Études Germaniques) in October 2020 in Toulouse. The subject, writing scenes (Schreibszenen, as defined by Martin Stingelin, Davide Giuriato and Sandro Zanetti) of Stefan Zweig in combination with his wide activities of autograph collecting, fits neatly into the question about staging an European heritage, which figured as the frame of the aforementioned workshop. With his autograph collection, Zweig is cultivating and staging in multifaceted ways material leftovers of the artistic work process of famous authors that he admired. Not only by means of his collecting activities, but also in his literary writing, which is strikingly often dedicated to other artists’ creative work, a handling of this material in the sense of a staging, respectively a mise-en-scène, is to be found. A longer quote of Zweig's fragmentary biography on Balzac shall exemplify that.