Muzeum Miejskie – Tychy | Spotkanie z Kamilem Iwanickim, autorem książki „Familoki”

Kritische Edition, Neudruck, Digitalisat

Starting with Rolf Tarot’s article on the edition of early modern texts in the volume Texte und Varianten ( Texts and Variants , 1971) and the subsequent process of reaching an understanding about the practical handling of texts from the period between 1500 and 1750, an overview of the evolution of this discussion from the 1970s to the present is given. On the one hand, the medial development from the conventional transcription to the reprint and the availability of digitized texts is retraced. On the other hand, the influence of the availability of scans on the research process is discussed, as well as the challenges this poses for current editorial projects of early modern texts. These lie less in the area of textual constitution, but rather in the commentary-based analysis and reconstruction of historical textual networks.

Warum und wie Typoskripte analysieren?

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.