To the digital archive of Barbara Frischmuth
Barbara Frischmuth is one of the most important contemporary Austrian authors. Large parts of her legacy can already be found at the Franz Nabl Institute for Literary Research in Graz and, to a lesser extent, at the Austrian National Library and the Adolf Haslinger Literature Foundation, Literature Archive Salzburg.
The aim of the multi-perspective project Digital Archive Barbara Frischmuth, which aims to provide a complete representation of Frischmuth 's entire oeuvre, is to enable a broad and at the same time profound scholarly examination of Frischmuth's oeuvre and thus to provide central impulses both for the specialist world and for a wider public.
The scope of the undertaking includes the consolidation and consolidation of the archive holdings as well as the documentation and comprehensive philological description of both the primary sources and their academic and journalistic reception. The project will be analyzed and commented on according to specific questions and parameters, such as subjects and themes, genre-specific classifications, relevant cultural, aesthetic or socio-political references or characteristic trends in reception. The academic and journalistic reception is examined both quantitatively and qualitatively. The results of the reception and primary text analysis are linked and systematically correlated in the digital setting.
The digital workflow provides for an online repository with an intuitive and data-driven interface. The entire indexing process is based on proven methods of digital humanities, which make it possible to record the diverse information on Frischmuth's work in a structured and standard-compliant manner. Both the workflow for data acquisition and the analysis and presentation of the data are being developed and implemented in collaboration with the Austrian Center for Digital Humanities, Vienna.
Located at the interface between archives and German studies, the project's multi-layered approach not only makes a significant contribution to academic research into Frischmuth's work, but also establishes an exemplary, innovative and original open access system for recording, structuring and indexing literary texts and their reception. In addition, the project provides a content-related basis for possible follow-up projects, such as the digitization of the bequest material or edition-philological undertakings.
In order to ensure the quality of the project, the project team, i.e. Anna Babka, Peter Clar, Julia Lingl and Matthias Schmidt, is made up of renowned literary scholars together with experts from the ACDH-CH.