Andreas Okopanko: diaries from the poet´s estate (hybrid edition)

In the year 2012, the Literary Archives of the Austrian National Library acquired the rights to the literary estate of the Austrian poet Andreas Okopenko (19302010), winner, among others, of the Grand Austrian State Prize for Literature (1998) and the Georg Trakl Prize (2002). Livelong thor- oughly kept and available in a well-sorted shape, the diaries are the core of the 28 boxes of the com- prehensive estate. The project, a close collaboration between the Literary Archives and the Depart- ment for German Studies of the University of Austria, puts its focus on an annotated digital edition of all diary notions and on a printed edition of the most significant parts (hybrid edition). The digital edition will be realized according to the standards of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) and connected to the website of the Austrian National Library in a sustainable manner and with un- limited access. Without editorial influences, the transcribed and encoded documents will be presented in different view options (facsimiles, diplomatic transcriptions, source code) and supplemented in a current process. Furthermore, annotations and a critical apparatus will be set up and integrated direct- ly into the XML-code. While the physical condition of the documents will be described in the summa- rising annotations, the biographical, literary historical and text-genetical relations are presented in a detail commentary, combined with different contemporary photographs, newspaper-articles and audio and video sources. The project will focus on the edition of Okopenkos diaries in the area of Digital Humanities regard- ing the authors poetological pioneer work in hypertext-poetry (esp. Lexikon-Roman, 1970). Throughout his life, Okopenko kept a position outside of all existing literary trends and turned out to be a reserved but rigorous observer of the literary scene in Austrias Second Republic. So Okopenkos highly personal perceptions and awareness of his own historical context make him a distinguished archaeologist, archivist and chronicler of his time.

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