Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, Part 2

  • Run time: 30 min
  • Premiere: 1988. January 1.

On the 28th of October 1884 Daniel Paul Schreber, candidate of the National Liberal Party in Chemnitz, suffered a heavy defeat at the elections of the German Reichstag. He was taken up in the mental clinic of the Leipzig University soon afterwards. To his rehabilition he wrote an extensive piece of work, "Denkwürdigkeiten eines Nervenkranken" (Memoirs of My Nervous Illness), which was published in 1903 and led to his temporary dismissal. Hereby Schreber became the most quoted psychiatric patient in scientific literature. This second part was finished after Ernst Schmidt Jr. death by his assistant Susi Praglowski.

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Susanne Widl

Daniel Paul Schreber

Art

Lisl Ponger

Art Designer

Peter Tscherkassky

Art Designer

Susanne Groschup

Art Designer

Dietmar Brehm

Art Designer

Camera

G. Rittersfeld

Director of Photography

Directing

Editing

Sound

Writing

Daniel Paul Schreber

Original Story

Art

Lisl Ponger

Art Designer

Peter Tscherkassky

Art Designer

Susanne Groschup

Art Designer

Dietmar Brehm

Art Designer

Camera

G. Rittersfeld

Director of Photography

Directing

Editing

Sound

Writing

Daniel Paul Schreber

Original Story