Publication series

The "Literature and Archive" series, edited by Petra-Maria Dallinger and Klaus Kastberger, is a cooperation project between the Franz Nabl Institute for Literary Research and the Adalbert Stifter Institute of the Province of Upper Austria/StifterHaus in Linz. In an annual jointly organized conference, international speakers explore questions that arise at the intersection of literature and archives and are of particular relevance in today's research.

DossierOnline is the current open access journal of the Franz Nabl Department for Literary Research at the University of Graz. In scholarly articles and essays, the journal conveys a knowledgeable and lively picture of Austrian literature after 1945.

The Franz Nabl Department for Literary Research has been working on a historical-critical edition of Ödön von Horváth's works since fall 2015. Horváth (1901-1938) is one of the most highly regarded authors of the 20th century. The historical-critical edition, which has been published by de Gruyter in Berlin since 2009, offers a complete edition of his work, as has long been demanded by researchers. All completed and fragmentary works as well as all of the author's letters and life documents are edited. The secure final versions of the texts, the precise description of the process of their creation and the philological reassessment of many sources provide a new perspective on the author's work, working methods and biography and open up new ways of realizing Horváth's plays in the theater.

As part of the Graz Lectures, prominent representatives of the contemporary art of writing address questions that arise from the environment and practice of their writing. In their fields of activity, the lecturers can be located at the intersections and/or points of contact between the humanities and cultural studies, journalism and literature. The survival of a historical art of writing (for example in ideas such as "good and appropriate style") should be considered in this way, as should the forms that a contemporary art of writing takes in the environment of new media. The central question of the series is: What am I actually doing when I write? What framework do I operate within and what possibilities does an art of writing have today?

The series is published by Droschl-Verlag in Graz, edited by the Franz Nabl Department for Literary Research and the Literaturhaus Graz in cooperation with the Department for German Studies at the University of Graz.

DOSSIER was the name of the series of books on Austrian authors published by Droschl since 1991. Each volume was dedicated to a literary personality and compiled the most important information on their life, work and reception.