SW/4/DIA - The Diary of a Man in Despair
Reference code
SW/4/DIA
Level of description
File
Title
The Diary of a Man in Despair
Scope and content
Diary Docs [Black ring-binder], 2008-2010
Ring-binder labelled ‘Diary’ Docs. Typescript for film (not made) Diary of a Man in Despair adapted from ‘Tagebuch Enies Versweifelten’. ‘The film is a recreation of the life of a man [Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen] who kept a diary detailing events and thoughts in Germany under the Nazis…’
Includes correspondence (printed emails 2009), critiques, and research material handwritten and typed. Includes a timeline for ‘Reck’.
[Red ring-binder], 2008
The dramatization of this book did not take place. SW explains in a letter to Andrea Clemen, 24/6/08
“the latest strictures outlined for the possible development of the material in Diary of a Man in Despair are no longer compatible with my dramatising of this story …
You are one of the guardians of the works of a man you say you knew very little about, and yet you have decided that it is best that the rest of the world also remains ignorant of his life and time and philosophy. This completely baffles me. The survival of any humanist voice from 1940 is a miracle that should be shouted form the housetops. Clearly ‘historical responsibility’ means different things to its various guardians.
I would hate to think that my children who will also one day inherit the relics of my own little literary estate would take the chance to “withhold approval for development”, based on their own nebulous tender feelings.”
Contains:
- Film proposal based on the book by Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen (TS).
- Parallel English and German text (TS).
- Correspondence from Maike Möller concerning TV and broadcasting rights; also the fact that the family of Reck-Malleczewen did not want their father portrayed in the film.
- Typed questions [by SW] for the family about the diary and life of Reck-Malleczewen.
- Draft option agreement between Andrea Clemen and SW.
- Notes from: Preamble by Joachim Fest. (Published article, 1968).
- Four photographs (of Reck-Malleczewen [?] in a wheelchair).
Correspondence, 2007-2011 (in two folders)
- Contains emails and correspondence, some with Maike Möller.
- Song lyrics.
- Receipts from a trip to Berlin in 2009.
Munich trip expenses, May 2009
Notes, and payments to Maike Möller (translator & research assistant), 2009-2010 (folder)
Notebook
Contains notes and some well-developed sketches, including portrait sketches, some of Maike Möller.
Copy of published book ‘Tagebuch Eines Verzweifelten’ by Friedrich Percyval Reck-Malleczewen. Stuttgart: Henry Goverts, 1966. [Diary of a Man in Despair].
Ring-binder labelled ‘Diary’ Docs. Typescript for film (not made) Diary of a Man in Despair adapted from ‘Tagebuch Enies Versweifelten’. ‘The film is a recreation of the life of a man [Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen] who kept a diary detailing events and thoughts in Germany under the Nazis…’
Includes correspondence (printed emails 2009), critiques, and research material handwritten and typed. Includes a timeline for ‘Reck’.
[Red ring-binder], 2008
The dramatization of this book did not take place. SW explains in a letter to Andrea Clemen, 24/6/08
“the latest strictures outlined for the possible development of the material in Diary of a Man in Despair are no longer compatible with my dramatising of this story …
You are one of the guardians of the works of a man you say you knew very little about, and yet you have decided that it is best that the rest of the world also remains ignorant of his life and time and philosophy. This completely baffles me. The survival of any humanist voice from 1940 is a miracle that should be shouted form the housetops. Clearly ‘historical responsibility’ means different things to its various guardians.
I would hate to think that my children who will also one day inherit the relics of my own little literary estate would take the chance to “withhold approval for development”, based on their own nebulous tender feelings.”
Contains:
- Film proposal based on the book by Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen (TS).
- Parallel English and German text (TS).
- Correspondence from Maike Möller concerning TV and broadcasting rights; also the fact that the family of Reck-Malleczewen did not want their father portrayed in the film.
- Typed questions [by SW] for the family about the diary and life of Reck-Malleczewen.
- Draft option agreement between Andrea Clemen and SW.
- Notes from: Preamble by Joachim Fest. (Published article, 1968).
- Four photographs (of Reck-Malleczewen [?] in a wheelchair).
Correspondence, 2007-2011 (in two folders)
- Contains emails and correspondence, some with Maike Möller.
- Song lyrics.
- Receipts from a trip to Berlin in 2009.
Munich trip expenses, May 2009
Notes, and payments to Maike Möller (translator & research assistant), 2009-2010 (folder)
Notebook
Contains notes and some well-developed sketches, including portrait sketches, some of Maike Möller.
Copy of published book ‘Tagebuch Eines Verzweifelten’ by Friedrich Percyval Reck-Malleczewen. Stuttgart: Henry Goverts, 1966. [Diary of a Man in Despair].
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