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“To my soldier friend Klaus from MARIANNE”

Abstract This essay focusses on the peritexts of Klaus Mann’s private diaries. On the basis of the diary manuscripts, various examples and types of peritexts as well as their implementation in the partial edition published first by Spangenberg and afterwards by Rowohlt are presented and analysed with regard to their significance for the main text of the diary. Based on these examples at least two aspects are elaborated that must be taken into account for a complete, academic edition of the diaries: the inseparable correlation between diary text and text medium, the meaning of the diaries as a form of use and as a form of expression as well.