The Beihefte zu editio [editio Supplements] appear as a complement to editio, the international journal dealing with questions of editorship, which is published in association with the relevant working groups of Germanists, philosophers and musicologists. While editio has a preference for fundamental and overarching papers covering editorship in as wide a variety of fields as possible, the Supplements deal with specialised questions from the concrete practice of editorship. In each case, the papers focus on one subject, which has normally arisen from a conference.

The editing of texts is a central function of philology. Besides complex editions, nowadays there is a call for user-oriented critical historical editions of individual works from more recent German literary history, including editions of correspondence, diaries or other text-types. The criterion for inclusion in the Exempla critica is the exemplary nature of the text in terms of its tradition, genesis, materiality, mediality or edition history.

In contrast to most of her famous contemporaries, Droste-Hülshoff shunned publicity, with the result that most of her oeuvre remained unpublished during her lifetime. For this portion of her work, an editor has to construct the texts from posthumous manuscripts. The resultant editorial problems were not satisfactorily resolved in the recognised critical edition of Droste-Hülshoff's works dating back to 1925–1930, which is outdated in every respect and in addition has long been out of print.Finally, Droste-Hülshoff has a second idiosyncrasy which makes the provision of an historical-critical edition particularly urgent. Droste-Hülshoff often did not really finish her texts in manuscript, but left various possibilities open, without really deciding on one rather than the other. The consequences of this basic indecisiveness, particularly for posthumous texts, for which the editor had to decide on one particular version for the text edition, can only be fully realised within a historical-critical edition which in its critical apparatus fully documents the genesis of the texts using extant manuscripts and prints. It is here in particular that the new material is brought to bear which the editor, the Germanist Winfried Woesler, and his research team processed in the course of years of preparatory work.This historical-critical edition, of the works and correspondence of Annette von Droste-Hülshoff (1797–1848), prepared according to modern editorial principles, was finally completed at the end of 2000 after 22 years of work. The edition comprises a total of 28 volumes (14 volumes with part-volumes).

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