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After a look at the history of typewriter development and in particular at its significance for the poet’s mode of production, two fundamentally different ‘writing settings’ are distinguished with regard to the interplay of the triad ‘producer – instrument – product’, which depend on the question about whether the poet himself operates the typewriter. For both writing settings, various examples are given, and positions of writers are examined in more detail. Based on the particular challenges of typescript analysis, a systematic catalogue is developed that explains the different categories as well as their respective specific potential for insight. On the basis of three selected examples from the digital historical-critical edition of Arthur Schnitzler’s late works, these research methods are finally applied in concreto to illustrate their added value for the reconstruction of text genesis in typescripts.