Wolfgang Koeppen Jugend – Rezension der textgenetischen Edition

Abstract

The Jugend Edition is a critical edition of Wolfgang Koeppen’s Jugend, which was published in 1976. It took more than fifteen years for Koeppen to write Jugend. The edition offers the opportunity to dive into the work of Wolfgang Koeppen and to follow him along during his writing process. After his death, all of the material related to Jugend was digitized and is presented as a complex dossier génétique. This review provides an overview of the presented documents, as well as the main features and appearance of the edition, with a special emphasis on its presentation of genetic relationships.

Keywords

• digital edition
• genetic edition
• modern
• 20th century
• visualization