Rainer Maria Rilke Diskussionforum

Hello Stilz, I enjoyed reading your fine observations. I recently read (somewhere) that Paula painted herself as pregnant before she became so. And that Rilke seeing her painting, and knowing a good amount about Paula's relationship with Otto Modersohn, realised that her self-portrait as pregnant wa...

Hello Forum! In his Requiem for his friend the painter Paula Modersohn-Becker, Rilke seems to comment on her self-portrait, a half-nude wearing amber beads (I believe this is the Self-Portrait on her Fifth Anniversary, now at the Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, Bremen). Rilke says (forgive the transl...

Thank-you Stilz, kind of you to offer! However, I want to have Ingeborg Schnack's work translated into English as it will help with research and new work on Rilke, and not just for me. Currently, the rights are held by Suhrkamp Verlag (from Insel Verlag) - would you have an idea on the best way to a...

Forgive the English! - does anyone know if Ingeborg Schnack's chronicle of Rilke's life has been translated into English?

If not, can anyone advise how I would have her work translated into English?

Thank-you for your attention!

Julian

Hello Forum,

Does anyone know of a publication which includes the letters of Rilke to princess Mechtilde Lichnowsky?

May thanks,

Julian

Dear Forum, Rilke visited Bruges in the summer of 1906 and (among other things) saw Memling's St John Altarpiece - which he refers to in later letters, for example: To the princess in January 1912: 'I hesitate infinitely, dear Princess, after writing what was so violently dictated to me the other da...

Hello dear Forum,

Gisbert Kranz in his work, Das Bildgedicht. Theorie, Lexikon, Bibliographie (1981) compiled a list of poems that Rilke wrote on artworks - does anyone have this list and would be willing to share it with me?

Many thanks,

Julian

Thank-you again Stilz for your considerate reply (and patience, no doubt). I'll order the Rilke Chronik through my library and take a look. Dr. Renate Scharffenberg sounds indeed like a wonderful person to have known and a great contributor your mission - it's beautiful how some of us can live so qu...

Hello Stilz, Thanks for the reply - actually, I should've asked the question about Rilke's letters in the 'Briefe', a 3 volume set published with, I believe, the help of the Rilke Archive. Would you know if there is an index for these volumes? In particular, I'm looking for letters that Rilke wrote ...

Dear Forum,

Does the Samtliche Werke of Rilke include all his letters? And does it also include a comprehensive index?

Warm wishes,

Julian

Thanks Stilz, your welcome is appreciated! And I was afraid that would be the response, but being somewhat lazy and knowing my tendency to get lost in minutiae, my hope was that someone had already done the work! Ah well. So yes, now I'm engaged in comparing the excellent concordance (which is inval...

Hello dear Forum members Does anyone know of a list of Rilke’s letters that have not yet been translated into English – I'm researching material for a publication of Rilke's letters on art, and anything yet untranslated into English could be very valuable. Many thanks for your time. Respectfully you...