Intertextuality in the Legal Papers of Karl Kraus. A Scholarly Digital Edition
Intertextuality in the Legal Papers of Karl Kraus. A Scholarly Digital Edition
Disciplines
Linguistics and Literature (100%)
Keywords
-
Karl Kraus,
Digital Humanities,
Viennese Modernism,
Digital Edition,
Intertextuality,
Digitization and Annotation
The project Intertextuality in the Legal Papers of Karl Kraus A Scholarly Digital Edition takes as its subject one of the most important representatives of critical modernism, Karl Kraus (1874-1936). Although the legal system was of central significance for Kraus as a writer and publicist, his legal papers have received little scholarly attention. They document over 200 lawsuits over a fifteen-year period (1922-1936) and are held at the Karl-Kraus-Archive of the Wienbibliothek (Vienna City Library). An edition of the legal documents published by Hermann Böhm in 1995-1997 is now out of print. This edition was also incomplete and, in light of new digital editing techniques, no longer state of the art. A full digital edition is therefore a research priority that promises new insights for users from a range of disciplines. The corpus will also complement and expand upon those of Krauss writings already available in digital form. The project has two parts. In the central, first part of the project the legal papers will be digitized and annotated comprehensively for the first time. At the same time, Böhms edition will be digitized and aligned with the original documents. A focus will be on the identification of direct quotations in the texts. In the second part, these direct quotations will be thoroughly examined. Citational practices are fundamental for Karl Kraus and his form of satire, but there has hitherto been no academic account of how this operates in the legal papers. For the analysis of the quotations, the central research question will ask what the practices and strategies of citation looked like in practice. Which witnesses are relied upon and in which ways? How do these quotations relate to those in other texts by Kraus? And can changes be noticed over the course of the fifteen years across which the legal papers stretch, which were politically eventful years for Austria?
In the project Intertextuality in the Legal Papers of Karl Kraus, the legal files of the law firm of Oskar Samek (18891959), which concern his most important client Karl Kraus (18741936) and comprise approximately 20,000 pages, have been extensively processed in a scholarly digital edition (https://www.kraus.wienbibliothek.at/). It is extremely rare for a lawyers files to survive as such, and even rarer for them to concern such a central, culturally and politically relevant figure of Viennese modernism. The files, which were compiled between 1922 and 1938, are therefore an extremely interesting source in terms of contemporary, cultural and legal history. This was already evident to Samek himself, who took the files with him into his exile in New York, where he already began to prepare their publication. After his death in 1959, the files were transferred to the Karl Kraus Archive of the Vienna Library in the City Hall. In a four-volume print edition (Hermann Böhm, Karl Kraus contra ... Die Prozeßakten der Kanzlei Oskar Samek, Vienna 19951997), which is now out of print, it was not yet possible to analyse the heterogeneous material bundled in over 200 cases in such a way that it could be explored in all its complexity. Not least, large parts of the files were missing, the text of which was only reproduced in excerpts or abstracts. The now available meticulous edition opens up entirely new insights into the journalistic, cultural, and political scene of the 1920s and 1930s, in which Krauss and Sameks legal battles between the First Republic and the National Socialist dictatorship took place, through elaborate coding and contextualisation. Typographical peculiarities and (handwritten) interventions were marked as well as persons, institutions, places and addresses. In line with the central question of intertextuality publications especially in the Fackel as well as on ANNO and legal texts with reference to ALEX were coded and linked as such. Six indexes, visualizations of the data (statistics), a handbook with texts by renowned researchers, paratexts, and curated access make Krauss/Sameks interactions with and in their time tangible and researchable in new ways.
- Vanessa Hannesschläger, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften , associated research partner
Research Output
- 12 Citations
- 29 Publications
-
2020
Title "Geschriebenes verloren". Karl Kraus' Gestaltungsprozeß von Seite 1 der "Fackel" Nr. 374/375 Type Journal Article Author Knüchel J Journal Text. Kritische Beiträge Pages 129-141 -
2020
Title "Geschriebenes verloren". Karl Kraus' Gestaltungsprozeß von Seite 1 der "Fackel" Nr. 374/375 Type Journal Article Author Knüchel J Journal Text. Kritische Beiträge Pages 129-141 -
2022
Title Digitale Transformation als Chance. Gedanken zu frauen*- und genderspezifischen Zugängen in der Wienbibliothek im Rathaus DOI 10.31263/voebm.v75i1.6887 Type Journal Article Author Luef E Journal Mitteilungen der Vereinigung Österreichischer Bibliothekarinnen und Bibliothekare Pages 193-205 Link Publication -
2021
Title Karl Kraus’ polemische Praktiken in der Ersten Republik DOI 10.1515/9783110730401-012 Type Book Chapter Author Langkabel I Publisher De Gruyter Pages 227-242 -
2021
Title Les enfants terribles. Ideas on Sexuality and Gender Surrounding Oskar Kokoschka DOI 10.1515/9783110724226-016 Type Book Chapter Author Prager K Publisher De Gruyter Pages 227-243 -
2021
Title We Are Needed More Than Ever: Cultural Heritage, Libraries, and Archives DOI 10.1007/978-3-030-86144-5_16 Type Book Chapter Author Eichinger A Publisher Springer Nature Pages 109-114 Link Publication -
2022
Title Editing a Scholarly Persona in the New Field of Women’s History – Gerda Lerner’s Integrations and Taboos DOI 10.21827/ejlw.11.38788 Type Journal Article Author Prager K Journal European Journal of Life Writing Link Publication -
2022
Title Introduction: Knowledge Making, Everyday Life, and Gendered Scientific/Scholarly Personae DOI 10.21827/ejlw.11.38231 Type Journal Article Author Gehmacher J Journal European Journal of Life Writing Link Publication -
2022
Title Karl Kraus-Handbuch: Leben - Werk - Wirkung Type Book Author Prager Katharina Publisher Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG -
2022
Title Korrespondenzen Type Book Chapter Author Knüchel J Publisher Metzler -
2022
Title Korrespondenzen Type Book Chapter Author Knüchel J Publisher Metzler -
2022
Title Die Sprache Type Book Chapter Author Isabel Langkabel Publisher Metzler -
2022
Title Die Sprache Type Book Chapter Author Isabel Langkabel Publisher Metzler -
2021
Title Abscheu oder Lust? Karl Kraus' spätes Schreiben Type Other Author Isabel Langkabel -
2021
Title Karl Kraus und das Berliner Tageblatt: "Beleidigungen dürfen auf der Stelle erwidert werden". Ein Text aus dem Nachlaß Type Journal Article Author Isabel Langkabel Journal Text. Kritische Beiträge Pages 53-127 -
2021
Title Karl Kraus und das Berliner Tageblatt: "Beleidigungen dürfen auf der Stelle erwidert werden". Ein Text aus dem Nachlaß Type Journal Article Author Isabel Langkabel Journal Text. Kritische Beiträge Pages 53-127 -
2021
Title Intertextuality in the Legal Papers of Karl Kraus: A Scholarly Digital Edition Type Other Author Ingo Börner -
2021
Title Intertextuality in the Legal Papers of Karl Kraus: A Scholarly Digital Edition Type Other Author Ingo Börner -
2021
Title Abscheu oder Lust? Karl Kraus' spätes Schreiben Type Other Author Isabel Langkabel -
2018
Title Der Biograf des antibiografischen Feldes: Didier Eribons Rückkehr nach Reims DOI 10.16995/lefou.35 Type Journal Article Author Prager K Journal Le foucaldien Link Publication -
2018
Title Berthold Viertel DOI 10.7767/9783205208327 Type Book Author Prager K Publisher Brill Osterreich GmbH -
2019
Title Erinnerungsorte und jüdische Auto/Biografien des Exils – Überlegungen zu vier Intellektuellen aus Wien DOI 10.13109/9783666370717.441 Type Book Chapter Author Prager K Publisher Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Pages 441-464 -
2019
Title 3. Frederick Kiesler, Berthold Viertel and Karl Kraus Between Vienna, Berlin and New York DOI 10.1515/9783035615418-005 Type Book Chapter Author Prager K Publisher De Gruyter Pages 67-82 -
0
Title Intertextualität in den Rechtsakten von Karl Kraus. Eine wissenschaftliche digitale Edition Type Journal Article Author Knüchel J Journal Wiener Digitale Revue -
0
Title Intertextualität in den Rechtsakten von Karl Kraus. Eine wissenschaftliche digitale Edition Type Journal Article Author Knüchel J Journal Wiener Digitale Revue -
0
Title Die Sprache und der Nationalsozialismus Type Book Chapter Author Isabel Langkabel Publisher De Gruyter -
0
Title Die Sprache und der Nationalsozialismus Type Book Chapter Author Isabel Langkabel Publisher De Gruyter -
0
Title Die rechtlichen Auseinandersetzungen Karl Kraus' mit Alfred Staackmann und Lothar Rübelt Type Journal Article Author Knüchel J Journal Wiener Digitale Revue -
0
Title Die rechtlichen Auseinandersetzungen Karl Kraus' mit Alfred Staackmann und Lothar Rübelt Type Journal Article Author Knüchel J Journal Wiener Digitale Revue