Düsseldorf Heine edition

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The Düsseldorf Heine Edition (DHA) is a historical-critical edition of the works of the writer Heinrich Heine (1797–1856).

The edition published by Manfred Windfuhr on behalf of the city of Düsseldorf with the support of the German Research Foundation of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg and the North Rhine-Westphalian Ministry of Culture and published by Hoffmann and Campe appeared between 1973 and 1997. Its history, however, goes back to the mid-1950s back. In the Heine year 1956 (100th anniversary of his death) the plan for a historical and critical complete edition of his works was discussed for the first time. Various models that aimed to include all the relevant people and institutions involved in Heine research at the time could ultimately not be implemented in the situation of the Cold War and the German two-state regime. Instead, in the 1960s in the Federal Republic of Germany and the GDR, preparations were made for a large Heine edition of their own. In addition to the West German DHA, for which a job was set up in Düsseldorf in 1963, preparatory work began in the GDR for the secular edition of Heine's works (HSA), which has been published since 1970 by the National Research and Memorial Centers for Classical German Literature in Weimar (today Klassik Weimar Foundation ) in collaboration with the Center national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in Paris .

On closer inspection, the sometimes considerable differences between the two editions can be traced back less to ideological contradictions than to different editorial concepts and individual decisions of the respective editors. In contrast to the HSA, the DHA sees itself as a pure work edition and therefore dispenses with Heine's correspondence as well as life testimonies and other documents. While the secular edition regards the French editions of his writings published with Heine's participation as separate versions of his works and dedicates an entire section to them, the Düsseldorf edition only sees variants of his German-language works in them and refers them to the appendix. There are also different principles for the division and sequence of bands. The DHA is primarily based on genres, so the poetry clearly makes the beginning:

  1. Book of songs ; Part 1: Text; Part 2: Apparatus, 1975
  2. New poems , 1983
  3. Romanzero , poems 1853 and 1854 , lyrical estate; Part 1: Text; Part 2: Apparatus, 1992
  4. Atta Troll ; Germany. A winter fairy tale , 1985
  5. Almansor ; William Ratcliff ; The Rabbi von Bacherach ; From the memoirs of Herr von Schnabelewopski ; Florentine Nights , 1994
  6. Letters from Berlin ; About Poland ; Travel pictures I / II, 1973
  7. Travel pictures III / IV; Part 1: Text; Part 2: Apparatus, 1986
  8. On the history of religion and philosophy in Germany ; The romantic school ; Part 1: Text, 1979; Part 2: Apparatus, 1981
  9. Elementals ; The goddess Diana , 1987
  10. Shakespeare's Girls and Women and Minor Criticism of Literature, 1993
  11. Ludwig Börne and smaller political writings, 1978
  12. French Painters , French States , Across the French Stage ; Part 1: Text, 1980; Part 2: Apparatus, 1984
  13. Lutezia I; Part 1: Text, apparatus 1. – 10. Article, 1988; Part 2: Apparatus 11.-42. Article, 1989
  14. Lutezia II; Part 1: Text, Apparat 43. – 58. Items. 1990; Part 2: Apparatus 59. – 61. Article and Appendix. 1991
  15. Confessions , Memoirs, and Smaller Autobiographical Papers, 1982
  16. Supplements and corrections; Register, 1997

In retrospect, the editor Manfred Windfuhr names the following focal points for the edition he oversees in his field report (see literature): textual criticism , commentary , source criticism as well as censorship and reception history .
The most striking approach to text criticism is the restitution process , the attempt to restore the original text in its original spelling. The DHA strives to use the text level with the highest level of authorization and, in case of doubt, gives preference to handwriting and master copies over the first prints, as errors and censorship interventions may have deformed the text originally intended by the author. In order to be able to undertake the restitutions in the absence of prepress, a word index for the Heinesche work has been created - since 1968 on the basis of EDP - which allows the most common and therefore probable spelling to be determined. In the area of ​​commentary, the Düsseldorf edition is much more extensive than the Weimar edition. Information on the creation, reception and transmission of the respective works and information on readings correspond to current editorial practice. In terms of the readings, the DHA - unlike the HSA - decided to perform all author variants in the form of a genetic layered apparatus, plus evidence of the restitutions made. In the explanations, the commentary is not limited to individual or point explanations, but also tries to make Heine's working method and intellectual horizon comprehensible, section and overall explanations establish larger connections. The extensive comments are based on the cooperation of a group of people who go well beyond the editors of the individual volumes and also include editors, doctoral students and other assistants. The abundance of material resulted in several volumes being published in two parts.

Even after the first volumes appeared, the DHA quickly became the preferred source for quotations from Heine's works. The HSA, on the other hand, was only able to establish itself for correspondence, which, including commentary volumes, was available in full in 1980 and was made accessible in 1984 by a register volume. The edition by Klaus Briegleb published between 1968 and 1976 is still mostly used as a reading edition .

literature

  • Heinrich Heine: Historical-critical complete edition of the works . (In connection with the Heinrich Heine Institute) ed. by Manfred Windfuhr. Vol. 1-16. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 1973–1997.
  • Manfred Windfuhr (among others): The Düsseldorf Heine edition . In: Yearbook for International German Studies 3/1971, pp. 271–330
  • Jost Hermand: The subject of the dispute is Heine. A research report 1945 - 1975 . Athenäum Fischer Taschenbuchverlag, Frankfurt a. M. 1975. ISBN 3-8072-2101-8 (For the editions there pp. 43–61)
  • Manfred Windfuhr: The Düsseldorf Heine edition. An experience report . Grupello, Düsseldorf 2005. ISBN 3-89978-043-4

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