Edition science

The editorial theory and philology is usually as a branch of literary studies or musicology treated.

It sifts through and opens up literary and historical sources that form the basis of research in the humanities . Depending on the object being worked on, knowledge of the historical auxiliary sciences is often necessary, in particular methods of textual criticism , which is usually understood as a sub-area of ​​edition philology.

In the meantime, university master’s courses have become established that have specialized in the needs of edition philology, including palaeography , typography , layout and media law, for example at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal and the University of Bern . The Free University of Berlin and the University of Heidelberg also had modules for this in their curriculum.

Further information can be found in the article Source Edition and in articles on terms of the subject .

literature

• editio. International yearbook for edition science. ISSN  0931-3079 .
• TEXT. Critical contributions. - Journal of the Institute for Textual Criticism on editorial science topics, edited by Roland Reuß, Wolfram Groddeck and Walter Morgenthaler ISSN  1420-1496 .
• Gunter Martens, Hans Zeller (ed.): Texts and variants. Problems of their edition and interpretation. Beck, Munich 1971, ISBN 3-406-03170-6 .
• Ulrich Breuer, Christopher Busch, Matthias Emrich: Editing. In: Heiko Christians, Matthias Bickenbach and Nikolaus Wegmann (eds.): Historical dictionary of media usage. Böhlau, Cologne 2014, ISBN 978-3-412-22152-2 , pp. 179–194.
• Klaus Grubmüller: Edition. In: Johannes Hoops : Reallexikon der Germanischen antiquity . Volume 6: Donar-þórr - Dugout. 2nd, completely revised and greatly expanded edition. de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1986, ISBN 3-11-010468-7 , pp. 447-452.
• Jörg Jungmayr : Edition Studies at the Free University of Berlin. In: editio. 21, 2007, pp. 206-216.
• Gesa Dane, Jörg Jungmayr , Marcus Schotte (eds.): In the thicket of texts. Edition science as interdisciplinary basic research . Weidler, Berlin 2013.
• Herbert Kraft : Edition Philology. Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1990, ISBN 3-534-06423-2 (2nd, revised and expanded edition. Lang, Frankfurt am Main et al. 2001, ISBN 3-631-35676-5 ).
• Rüdiger Nutt-Kofoth et al. (Ed.): Text and edition. Positions and Perspectives. Erich Schmidt, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-503-04976-2 .
• Bodo Plachta: Edition Studies. An introduction to the method and practice of the edition of newer texts (= universal library. 17603 literature study ). Reclam, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-15-017603-4 (3rd, updated and updated edition. 2013, ISBN 978-3-15-017603-0 ).
• Sophia Victoria Krebs, Wolfgang Lukas, Rüdiger Nutt-Kofoth, Anja Platz-Schliebs, Karl-Heinrich Schmidt, Uwe Stadler, Eric W. Steinhauer : Editions and Document Studies at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal. (PDF; 2.7 MB) In: Library Service. 2018, 52 (No. 12, special issue: Training and job profile for the library of the future), pp. 875–889.

Web links

• Hans Walter Gabler / Anne Bohnenkamp-Renken (eds.): Compendium of Editionswissenschaft (12 mostly basic articles in free access), University of Munich 2003
• Edition Studies at the Free University of Berlin (not active)
• Master's degree in "Editing Studies and Textual Criticism" at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
• Master's degree in "Editing and Document Science" at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal
• Master's degree in Editing Philology at the University of Bern