READING HEINRICH HEINE

Notes
introduction
1 Jeffrey L. Sammons, Heinrich Heine (Sammlung Metzler 261)(Stuttgart: Metzler,
1991), pp. 166–9; see also his ‘The Exhaustion of Current Heine Studies:
Some Observations, Partly Speculative’ in Mark H. Gelber (ed.), The Jewish
Reception of Heinrich Heine (Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1992), pp. 5–19.
2 ‘Ich bin ein Neger’. Diskussion mit Heiner Müller (Darmstadt: Verlag der Georg
Büchner Buchhandlung, 1986), p. 20.
3 Theodor W. Adorno, ‘Die Wunde Heine’ in Noten zur Literatur I, Gesammelte
Schriften, ed. Rolf Tiedemann, 20 vols. (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1974),
vol. XI, pp. 95–100; ‘Heine the Wound’ in Notes to Literature, trans. Shierry
Weber Nicholsen, 2 vols. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1991), vol. I,
pp. 80–5.
4 In The Sociology of Georg Simmel, trans., ed. and with an introduction by Kurt
H. Wolff (New York: The Free Press, 1964), pp. 409–24;‘DieGroßstädte und
das Geistesleben’, Jahrbuch der Gehe-Stiftung Dresden 9 (1903), pp. 185–206.
5 In this study I have used Klaus Briegleb’s edition, Heinrich Heine. Sämtliche
Schriften, 6 vols. in 7 (Munich: Hanser, 1968–76). Quotations from this text
are indicated by the letter B, followed by volume number and page. Other
editions are indicated as follows: DHA = Heinrich Heine. Sämtliche Werke.
Düsseldorfer Ausgabe, ed. Manfred Windfuhr, 16 vols. (Hamburg: Hoffmann
& Campe, 1973–97); HSA = Heinrich Heine: Werke &c. Säkularausgabe, ed.
Nationale Forschungs- und Gedenkstätte der klassischen deutschen Literatur,
Weimar, and the Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Paris, 27 vols.
(Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1970–). HSA is exclusively used for Heine’s correspondence.
Heine’s conversation and the reports of his contemporaries are cited
from Michael Werner (ed.), Begegnungen mit Heine: Berichte der Zeitgenossen.
In Fortführung von H. H. Houbens ‘Gespräche mit Heine’, 2 vols. (Hamburg:
Hoffmann & Campe, 1973), cited as Werner/Houben, giving volume and page
numbers.
6 Critique of Cynical Reason, trans. Michael Eldred, with a foreword by Andreas
Huyssen (London: Verso, 1988). See section 5.
7 The phrase is Andreas Huyssen’s in his introduction to the English translation
of Sloterdijk’s work.
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