Critical Robert Walser edition

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The Critical Robert Walser Edition (KWA) is an edition of all of Robert Walser's prints and manuscripts that has been published since 2008 .

scope

The edition comprises 6 sections with approx. 46 volumes. It is considered a critical hybrid edition, i.e. H. designed as a connection between book edition and electronic edition . The KWA is edited by Wolfram Groddeck and Barbara von Reibnitz and developed at the Universities of Zurich and Basel with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation . It has been published by Stroemfeld and Schwabe since 2008 . The KWA differs from the previous editions of Robert Walser in its completeness in text and text genesis as well as systematic documentation of the materiality and mediality of Walser's literary production.

In sections I – III, all first prints are published during his lifetime; Section I contains the book publications, in Section II and III the widely dispersed literature of the “small forms”, which forms the majority of the published work, is edited after the first publications in the various magazines and newspapers. The contemporary literary and political context of Walser's publications is systematically shown for the first time.

In sections IV – VI, all manuscripts are facsimile and reproduced in transcriptions , including the fair copy manuscripts of the novels, the individual manuscripts and the so-called micrograms, which have only been partially published so far.

Department VII is intended for letters from and to Robert Walser. It is not yet fully planned in detail.

In the last section VIII, the contemporary impact is documented through reviews and other texts about Robert Walser.

The accompanying electronic edition (KWA e ) makes the texts edited in the book edition digitally accessible and links them with the facsimiles of the first prints or manuscripts. It also contains a finding aid listing all of Robert Walser's prints and manuscripts according to headings and incipits.

Volumes

The individual volumes of the KWA are divided as follows:

Dept. I: Book publications

  • I.1: Fritz Kocher's essays. (Insel 1904) (published 2010)
  • I.2: Tanner siblings . (Bruno Cassirer 1907) (published 2008)
  • I.3: The assistant . (Bruno Cassirer 1908) (published 2012)
  • I.4: Jakob von Gunten . (Bruno Cassirer 1909) (published 2013)
  • I.5: Articles (Kurt Wolff 1913)
  • I.6: Stories (Kurt Wolff 1914)
  • I.7: Small seals (Kurt Wolff 1914/1915)
  • I.8: pieces of prose (Rascher & Cie. 1917), small prose (A. Francke 1917), the walk. (Huber & Co.) 1917 (published 2016)
  • I.9: Poet life . (Huber & Co. 1918) (published 2014)
  • I.10: Poems (Bruno Cassirer 1909/1919), Comedy (Bruno Cassirer 1919)
  • I.11: Seeland (Rascher & Cie. 1919) (published 2018)
  • I.12: The Rose (Ernst Rowohlt 1925) (published 2016)

Section II: Prints in magazines

  • II.1: The New Rundschau (published in 2017)
  • II.2: The Rhineland / German monthly books
  • II.3: The Schaubühne / Die Weltbühne (published in 2015)
  • II.4: Prints in various magazines 1 ( Die Ähre - Der Morgen )
  • II.5: Prints in various magazines 2 ( Der Nebelspalter - Schweizerland )
  • II.6: Prints in various magazines 3 ( Simplicissimus - Die Zukunft )

Section III: prints in newspapers

  • III.1: Berliner Tageblatt (published 2013)
  • III.2: The federal government
  • III.3: Neue Zürcher Zeitung (published 2013)
  • III.4: Prager Presse (published 2018)
  • III.5: Prager Tagblatt
  • III.6: Prints in various newspapers ( Basler Nachrichten - Wiener Tag )

Section IV: work manuscripts

  • IV.1: Siblings Tanner (published 2008)
  • IV.2: The Assistant (published 2012)
  • IV.3: Zealand (published 2018)

Dept. V: Manuscripts on smaller forms

  • V.1: Bern manuscripts
  • V.2: Prague manuscripts (published 2018)
  • V.3: Scattered stocks

Dept. VI: micrograms

  • VI.1: Micrograms 1924/25 (published 2016)
  • VI.2: micrograms 1925
  • VI.3 and 4: micrograms 1925/26
  • VI.5 and 6: micrograms
  • VI.7 and 8: micrograms
  • VI.9 and 10: micrograms
  • VI.11 and 12: micrograms

literature

  • Wolfram Groddeck: Beyond the Book. On the dynamics of the concept of work in Robert Walser . In: text. Critical Contributions 12 (Edition & Digitization). On behalf of the Institute for Text Criticism eV, ed. by Roland Reuss, Wolfram Groddeck and Walter Morgenthaler. Stroemfeld: Frankfurt am Main 2008, p. 57–70, ISBN 978-3-86600-039-1 [as a special print also in: Critical Robert Walser Edition, Editionsprospekt, Stroemfeld / Schwabe: Basel, Frankfurt am Main 2008, p. 15-28]
  • Wolfram Groddeck: Considerations on the edition model of the micrograms in the Critical Robert Walser Edition . In: Michael Stolz and Yen-Chun Chen (eds.): Internationality and interdisciplinarity of edition science. De Gruyter: Berlin, Boston 2014 (= supplements to editio, vol. 38), pp. 119–130, ISBN 978-3-11-037235-9 .
  • Wolfram Groddeck: Edition . In: Lucas Marco Gisi (Ed.), Robert Walser Handbuch. Life - work - effect. Metzler: Stuttgart 2015, pp. 363-367, ISBN 978-3-476-02418-3 .
  • Barbara von Reibnitz: feuilletons for Zurich, Berlin, Frankfurt and Prague. On the printing site-related edition concept of the Critical Robert Walser Edition. In: Journal for German Studies, New Series XXII (3/2012), pp. 581–598.
  • Barbara von Reibnitz: First prints in newspapers. For editorial context documentation using the example of Robert Walser's feature articles . In: Wolfgang Lukas, Rüdiger Nutt-Kofoth and Madleen Podewski (eds.): Text - Material - Medium. On the relevance of editorial documentation for literary interpretation. De Gruyter: Berlin, Boston 2014 (= supplements to editio, vol. 37), pp. 219–235, ISBN 978-3-11-036325-8 .
  • Christian Walt: improvisation and interpretation. Reading Robert Walser's micrograms. Stroemfeld: Basel, Frankfurt am Main 2015 (= edition TEXT 15), ISBN 978-3-86600-190-9 .

Translations

  • Robert Walser: L'Enfant du bonheur et autres proses pour Berlin . Traduit de l'allemand par Marion Graf, Postface de Peter Utz. Éditions Zoé 2015 (= KWA III.1 prints in the Berliner Tageblatt), ISBN 978-2-88182-957-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Project description at www.kritische-walser-ausgabe.ch, accessed on February 22, 2017.