Abstract

On September 10, 1918, from Bernau in the Black Forest, Edmund Husserl writes a letter to Martin Heidegger. Surprisingly, preluded only by the letters »NB«, ›nota bene‹, Husserl near the end of the text points out the following: »NB. I also have Hölderlin, whom I love very much but know very little, with me here; thus, we will, in him, touch each other reading. / Regards / Yours / EHusserl.« The paper attends to this passage – the only passage in the whole of Husserl’s oeuvre mentioning the name »Hölderlin« – in a threefold manner, developing a philological, a psychoanalytical, and a phenomenological reading.