Movie

Memoirs of My Nervous Illness

Denkwürdigkeiten eines Nervenkranken

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.

Director

Ernst Schmidt Jr.

Screenplay

Ernst Schmidt Jr.

Director

Peter Tscherkassky

Screenplay

Daniel Paul Schreber

Status

Released

Release date

01/01/1993

Original language

German