Heine secular edition
The Heine Secular Edition (HSA) is a historical-critical edition of the works and letters of the writer Heinrich Heine (1797–1856).
The edition published by the National Research and Memorial Centers for Classical German Literature in Weimar (today Klassik Stiftung Weimar ) and the Center national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in Paris has been published since 1970 and has not yet been completed.
The name secular edition goes back to the fact that for the first time in the Heine year 1956 (100th anniversary of his death) the plan for a historical-critical complete edition of his works was discussed in public. A decisive impetus came from Helmut Holtzhauer , the head of the Weimar research and memorial sites at the time. The idea of tackling the secular issue as an all-German project could ultimately not be realized in the situation of the Cold War and the German dual state. 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 1963, a workstation was set up in Düsseldorf for the later Düsseldorf Heine edition , while in the GDR the preparatory work for the secular edition was started with the involvement of the CNRS Equipe Heine.
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. Such decisions concern, among other things, the relevant textual basis used, the structure and scope of the apparatus or the division into volumes.
The HSA was designed in 30 volumes, which should be divided into four departments:
- 1. Heine's works in German (Vol. 1–12)
- 2. Heine's works in French (vol. 13-19)
- 3. Heine's correspondence (Vol. 20-27)
- 4. Life certificates and general register (Vol. 28-30)
Since a separate commentary volume, in some cases also in two parts, is planned or published for the text volumes, the total volume of the edition is 57 volumes so far. The last section with the testimonies is no longer part of the edition plan.
Only the first section has an equivalent in the Düsseldorf edition, as its editor Manfred Windfuhr on the one hand only classified the French translations of Heine's works as variants and on the other hand saw no space in one work edition for letters and life testimonies.
In the professional world, the secular edition was only able to establish itself with the letters department, especially since this was the first to be available in a closed form (as early as 1978 with all the accompanying commentary volumes, supplemented by a register in 1984). Compared to the previous edition of Friedrich Hirth's letter , the HSA has the advantage that it also contains the letters to Heine and is more sober and serious about the comments.
In the deliberate reluctance to comment, the HSA also differs significantly from the Düsseldorf edition and its very material-rich apparatus, which is rated differently by the critics. In contrast to the DHA, the commentaries appear in each case as separate volumes, which is on the one hand more user-friendly, but on the other hand sometimes allows large gaps between the publication of the text and commentary volumes.
After the end of the GDR, the continuation of the HSA, which was published by the formerly state-owned Akademie-Verlag , seemed temporarily questionable. In the meantime, the sponsorship of the edition has been reorganized so that the last missing commentary volumes can be expected to appear in the foreseeable future and thus their completion.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Heinrich Heine secular edition: Product information from de Gruyter, accessed on January 5, 2019.
literature
- Heinrich Heine: secular edition. Works, correspondence, life testimonies . Edited by the National Research Centers and Memorials of Classical German Literature in Weimar and the Center National de la Recherche Scientifique in Paris. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin [u. a.] 1970 ff.
- Helmut Holtzhauer: To the secular edition of Heine's works, correspondence and life testimonies . In: Weimarer contributions 3/1957, pp. 267–270
- Dietrich Germann: The preparatory work on the Heine secular edition . In: Research and Progress 39/1965, pp. 273-278
- 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)
- Alfred Estermann: The complete edition of the Heine correspondence. For volumes 20–27 of the Heine secular edition . In: Heine-Jahrbuch 17/1978, pp. 251-259