Abstract
Reinhart Koselleck (1923-2006) outlined a model of historical time in various essays, most of them collected in the anthologies 'Zeitschichten' and 'Vergangene Zukunft.' The article reconstructs Koselleck's transcendental principles of history. The author questions Koselleck's understanding of natural time and anthropological categories. Even Koselleck's anthropological categories are already determined by culture and history. Historical time and historical truth are constructed by historical narrations. This conviction does not imply, however, the denial of historical reality. Koselleck's categories Erfahrungsraum and Erwartungshorizont ought to be combined with a narratological point of view.