Digital Facsimile Edition of Nietzsches Work

• Applicant: Dr. Christian Hain, since 12/2022
• Subject Area: German Literary and Cultural Studies (Modern German Literature) ; History of Philosophy ; History of Science
• Term: from 2015 to 2023
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 279557452

The project Digital Facsimile Edition (DFGA) aims for the complete digitization, indexation and online publication of Nietzsche’s entire Nachlass. In the first part of the project all notebooks, jotters, compositions, dossiers of loose sheets, manuscripts for printings, proof sheets and first publications were digitized and indexed.In the second part of the project Nietzsche’s entire correspondence, all personal documents and memorabilia will be digitized, indexed and published online on www.nietzschesource.org as well as within the archive database of the GSA. All the historical metadata will be collected, enriched and contextualized with new metadata. Furthermore, the digital facsimiles will be linked with transcriptions of the electronic critical edition of Nietzsche’s writings.The project will also contribute to the digital long-term preservation of all the documents and ensure the semantic interoperability with Europeana, other digital libraries, archives and nationwide portals.The digital facsimile edition will (1.) enable readers and researchers to verify existing editions, (2.) substantially facilitate the work of editors of critical editions, and (3.) promote entirely new editions as well as new critical, diplomatic, and genetic forms of editing.

• DFG Programme: Cataloguing and Digitisation (Scientific Library Services and Information Systems)
• Participating Institution: Centro Nietzsche (CN); Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften; Forschungsstelle Nietzsche-Kommentar; École Normale Supérieure - PSL; Institut des Textes et Manuscrits Modernes (ITEM)
• Co-Investigator: Dr. Silke Henke
• Ehemaliger Antragsteller: Dr. Bernhard Fischer, until 12/2022