Propyläen. Research Platform for Goethe’s Biographica.

Letters, Diaries, Encounters and Conversations. Chronology. Sources. Research. Focus

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The aim of the project “Propyläen. Forschungsplattform zu Goethes Biographica” (Research Platform for Goethe’s Biographica) is to develop an integrated research platform for Goethe’s Biographica and to complete the historical‑critical editions of Briefe von Goethe (GB) (Goethe’s letters), Tagebücher von Goethe (GT) (Goethe’s diaries), the Regestausgabe der Briefe an Goethe (RA) (regesta of letters to Goethe) – now enriched with a full‑text edition – and the edition of Goethe’s Begegnungen und Gespräche (encounters and conversations). Goethe's life testimonies provide information about his intellectual environment and the mutual impulses that were exchanged between the actors in Weimar, in the German-speaking world, in other European countries and beyond at a time when Europe and the whole world were undergoing fundamental change.

By making these sources available online, a significant new research potential opens up that cannot be matched by the printed editions alone, because for the first time documents of different source types, each with its own communicative dimension, can be examined together. This yields numerous fresh insights for Goethe scholarship as well as for historiography, cultural history and the history of science concerning the period from the mid‑18th to the mid‑19th century.

The platform is designed for the seamless integration of further source collections and scholarly findings, offering Goethe and Goethe‑era research a unique, sustainable central forum in the digital age.

Anschrift Weimar

Klassik Stiftung Weimar
Direktion Goethe- und Schiller-Archiv
Jenaer Str. 1
99423 Weimar

Telefon

03643/545-240

Fax: 03643/545-241

Website

http://www.klassik-stiftung.de

Postanschrift Weimar

Klassik Stiftung Weimar
Direktion Goethe- und Schiller-Archiv
Burgplatz 4
99432 Weimar

Anschrift Frankfurt

Digitale Akademie im Frankfurter Goethe-Haus –
Freies Deutsches Hochstift
Großer Hirschgraben 23-25
60311 Frankfurt am Main

Telefon

069/138 80-278

Fax: 069/138 80-222

Website

https://freies-deutsches-hochstift.de/forschung/propylaeen/

Former Employee: Hans-Werner Bartz
Project Lead: Prof. Dr. Anne Bohnenkamp-Renken; Prof. Dr. Daniel Fulda
Researchers and Project Staff: Gregor Middell; Felix Schenke; Christian Thomas
Ehem. Leitung der Arbeitstelle im Freien Deutschen Hochstift Frankfurt zur technischen Entwicklung der Plattform: Dominik Kasper

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