Neudrucke deutscher Literaturwerke. N. F.

Julius Wilhelm Zincgref (1591–1635) is one of the most remarkable authors in the field of seventeenth-century literary reform efforts. This volume provides a historical-critical edition of his short writings in Germany and a comprehensive commentary. They reveal the Heidelberg jurist to be a satirist, polemicist, and moral guide, who intervened in the disputes of the Thirty Years’ War with various genres and publication forms.

Danzig organist Thomas Strutius set to music the first comprehensive collection of seventy-five religious songs by Johann Maukisch, the principal of the local academic gymnasium. This volume is the first to fully explore the Lobsingende Hertzens-Andacht über die Evangelia (1656/57), a unique work of early modern pericopal poetry, and documents the collaboration between these two personalities.

This volume provides a critical edition of the complete correspondence of the late humanist Nicodemus Frischlin (1547–1590) together with registers and commentaries, making available a key part of the production of one of the most important authors in German literary history. Moreover, patterns of competition and exclusion typical of the period are revealed in a clash of courtly, academic and "humanist" interests.

The second part of Rist’s 1668 posthumously published "Die verschmähte Eitelkeit" is an Early Modern milestone in the literary engagement with the vanitas topos. Like the first part (1658), the second part of this piece also comprises 24 meditative texts in the form of "soliloquies," each of which is summarized in a song, intensified and translated into the sung, remembered appropriation of the addressee.

This book makes the independent German writings of the late humanist Nicodemus Frischlin available as a critical edition, providing a new presentation of his vernacular poetry. It creates a text basis for the German texts he wrote during his conflict with the south-west German nobility within the context of the Oratio de vita rustica for the first time.

This edition of Johann Rist’s Die verschmähete Eitelkeit of 1658 contains twenty-four meditative soliloquies, each of which is summarized in a spiritual song. The aim of the texts and songs is to provide insight into the vanity of earthly life and to establish a practice of piety that is oriented toward eternal life, which can be attained by faith alone. The music for the songs was composed by Heinrich Scheidemann.

The Hamburg choirmaster Thomas Selle prepared the scores for Rist’s sixth collection of sacred songs. The Musical Festivities includes, in addition to prefaces, lyrics and 52 songs for the festival days of the church year, hymns for the days of the apostles and the Marian feast days, Luther Day, the thanksgiving day for the presentation of the Confessio Augustana, and the Thanksgiving for the German Translation of the Bible.

Alltägliche Hausmusik was a new collaboration between Rist, Johann Schop and Michael Jacobi, devoted almost exclusively to promoting the domestic practice of piety in song. The 70 songs cover life circumstances of various occupational groups and provide songs for everyday situations, responses to typical moments of crisis, and for domestic preparation for worship, particularly grace before partaking in evening meal.

Klinger did not include the tragedies Roderico and Oriantes or the comedy Die zwo Freundinnen (The Two Friends) in his own edition of his works. Klinger was employed by the Russian Grand Duke Paul, and his titular characters’ ideas of freedom and justice targeted despotism in the Tsarist Empire. The comedy was inspired by the close bond between two ladies of the court. This new edition makes the plays available once more.

This compilation includes the “Sermons on the Cross” – which were highly influential in pastoral history – along with 70 hymns. The themes are the cross, the comfort solely found in God’s word, and His resulting praise, including proper thanksgiving by the comforted; they permeate all parts of the work as a cantus firmus.

The volume contains Birken’s correspondence with three younger members of the Pegnitz Flower Society – Magnus Daniel Omeis (Nuremberg, Vienna, Altdorf), Joachim Heinrich Hagen (Bayreuth), Sebastian Seelmann (Regensburg) – and with the Breslau rector Georg Wende. Birken was an important promoter of the younger members, while Wende ensured that one of the thirteen women Birken nominated entered the society.

This collection contains poems of Sigmund von Birken that he wrote either for or on behalf of the high nobility. The spectrum of recipients comprises the imperial family, the members of the Swedish royal family, various princes of the Holy Roman Empire, and many other aristocrats. The occasions for the poems include weddings, deaths, journeys, and other important events within patrician circles.

Sabbath Desire of the Soul was a critical milestone in the early modern generic tradition of pericope lyrics. Before Rist, such authors as Johann Heermann, Andreas Gryphius, and Philipp Georg Harsdörffer had helped create this genre. The book documents Rist’s first collaboration with the renowned Hamburg cathedral choirmaster Thomas Selle, one that was later continued in the New Musical Devotions for Festivals (1655).

The volume contains Sigmund von Birken’s (1626–1681) collection of Latin poems, letters, and devotional texts, augmented by other texts included in supplementary lists and the contents of two workbooks that were intended to be part of the collection. All of the texts are published here for the first time, with extensive commentary and a German translation.

The work, critically edited for the first time with commentary, is Rist’s ninth collection of sacred songs, and an extraordinary document of early modern poetry based on biblical texts from the New Testament. Along with 82 songs about New Testament texts, the volume includes many dedicatory pieces that reveal Rist’s scholarly network. Christian Flor composed the musical scores.

The Catechism Devotions are comprised of 50 spiritual songs that impart all of the material in Luther’s Small Catechism in vocal form. They are regarded as an important milestone in early modern theologia catechetica that aimed at an elemental presentation of the liturgy.

In addition to two programmatic prefaces and words of praise, the work includes 82 songs, 74 of them devoted to key passages in the Old Testament (mostly from Prophets and Psalms), and eight related to apocryphal passages. The compositions were written by the organist Christian Flor, who was active at the St. Lamberti church in Lüneburg.

The documentary volume offers a complete reproduction of the autograph versions, duplicates, and single reprints of Günther's poetry, thus providing a clear impression of the works and their rare textual sources. Of the documented reprints and collected manuscripts, only a third have survived, and of the printed works, many have been preserved in only a single copy. Transcriptions are included.

This volume edits and comments on 151 spiritual poems by Sigmund von Birken (1626–1681). The poems are accompanied by textual criticism, historical contextualization, and placed in their theological historical contexts. The edition includes several indices (index of metrical forms, index of titles and first lines, index of persons, and an index of biblical passages).

Sigmund von Birken’s well-documented correspondence with the Nuremberg scholars Dilherr and Wülfer as well as with Lilien, a theologian from Bayreuth, are major sources for the biographies and literary histories of all four authors and for understanding the social and literary networks of the era. Von Birken’s correspondence with Lilien also serves as a complementary source to his correspondence with Catharina Regina von Greiffenberg (Vol. 12).

The double volume makes autograph works of the poet Sigmund von Birken (1626–1681) accessible for the first time. The texts are part of the devotional literature of the Early Modern Era, and reveal the medial and thematic diversity of this genre in greater detail than ever before. The apparatus and commentary document text-critical information, elucidate historical places mentioned in the text, Biblical references, and the theological approach.

This volume presents 430 poems and poem groups written by Sigmund von Birken, typically on commission, for bourgeois patrons and members of the city of Nuremberg’s patrician class. The first subvolume contains the texts; the second subvolume the philological apparatus and commentaries. The book reveals the activity of a “literary service provider,” and will be of interest to historians, theologians, and scholars of cultural and literary studies.

This volume presents 196 poems, letters, and drafts dating from the final 21 months of Günther’s life. During this time, Günther wrote new derisive verses, panegyrics, and wedding verses; spiritual poems for a devotional setting; and his well-known self-justification letter to his father. Despite illness and exhaustion, Günther was able to maintain his poetic sensibility, his role as learned poet, and his clever wit.

This edition includes manuscripts (re)discovered in Breslau and elsewhere, the contemporaneous collected editions, later transcriptions, and the Nachlässe of the scholars Enders and Kräme. The poems, letters, and the school dramas are arranged according to their periods of creation as well as traditional genres. The volume includes the original version of the Latin texts and a German translation, a catalog of variants, and commentary.

Until now, there has been no complete critical textual edition of the works of Günther, after Carl Enders was unable to realize his publishing plans and since Wilhelm Krämer’s edition remained incomplete. The new edition takes all of the works of the great Silesian poet into consideration, including their preliminary stages and fragments. The commentary section provides detailed explanations of the textual legacy and dissemination, including musical settings of the poetry and translations. The occasions and dates for writing the poems are discussed, and difficult sections are explained. Thus, literary critics and friends of literature will at last have a secure foundation for interpreting the texts.

For the first time, this double volume makes accessible to researchers two extraordinary collections of religious poetry by the prominent Baroque poet Sigmund von Birken (1626-1681). The critical apparatus and commentary provide detailed documentation of issues of textual criticism, indicate the historical place of each text, document scriptural references, and reveal both the theological and pietistic as well as emblematic orientation of the poems.

Beginning in the mid-1760s, a circle of young literati was formed, primarily through the initiative of Martin Kempe of Königsberg, known as the Pegnesischer Blumenordnen, or Pegnitz Flower Society. The writers came from different places around the Baltic region, often beyond the borders of the Holy Roman Empire; they were all engaged in an exchange of letters with the Nuremberg poet Sigmund von Birken, and were all counseled and supported by him. This volume brings to light all of the correspondence that has been preserved, most of it for the first time, and provides detailed commentary. The collection offers great insights into the difficulties of literary production for writers who were far from the centers of the old Empire.

This is the first reissue of Klinger’s fairy tales since their original publication in 1778–80 and 1791: Orpheus, a Tragico-Comical Story and Bambino’s Sentimental-Political, Comical-Tragic Story. Both versions of the text are identical to a great extent. Since the page breaks are noted in the apparatus, the reader can orient him- or herself towards the original publication.

These two correspondence collections, containing the letters of each of the partners and preserved almost in their entirety, are published here for the first time. They have high value as source material for the biography and history of the works of Sigmund von Birken and for the academic, economic and social history of the second half of the 17th century. Birken, who viewed female poets as equals and who accepted several women as members into the literary society “Pegnitz Order of Flowers”, insisted in his role as husband on the theologically justified claim to male dominance, and this led to problems. The correspondence illuminates the historical development of several of Birken’s works.

Starting with the lyric poetry, this volume opens the first critical edition of the sacred works of the prominent Nuremberg Baroque poet Sigmund von Birken (1626‑1681). A double volume, it provides access to the most extensive collection of Birken's sacred poetry still extant in manuscript. Alongside mourning poems, the collection contains poems covering a wide variety of other occasions. The apparatuses and commentaries provide a detailed documentation of critical textual issues, locate the texts historically, cite biblical references, show the theological and devotional orientation of the poems and a great deal more.

Julius Wilhelm Zincgref (1591‑1635), the Heidelberg jurist, is considered in his century to have been a master of the short literary form intended for edification purposes. The two-volume collection of his sayings, Der Teutschen scharpfsinnige kluge Sprüch [Wise and Witty German Sayings], published in 1626 and 1631, was particularly outstanding and influential. This is the first critical edition of this history and memorial book which was written in the spirit of a humanistic ‘light’ version of Calvinism. The accompanying commentary volume elucidates the factual content, origin and reception of the brief narratives and paratexts.

This double volume opens the edition of the posthumous manuscripts of one of the most respected and influential 17th century German authors in his life-time. Vol. 1/I contains the first of Birken's five collections of lyric poetry, the poems of love and friendship composed between 1642 and 1681 - epic poems, songs, sonnets and epigrams covering a wide range of topics and forms, at one and the same time indebted to tradition yet surprisingly modern. They afford multi-faceted insights into the reality of the life in which they were created. Vol. 1/II provides textual variants, printing history, details of the situation in which the poems were written, factual explanations and an index.

Joachim Camerarius (1534–1598), the Nuremberg doctor and botanist, produced one of the most influential writings on European emblematics with his four-volume work which was published from 1595–1605. In this 1587 volume, appearing for the time with scholarly commentary, Camerarius develops a new project - he sets the moral-religious interpretation of the world against the empirical-scientific view. In this edition, Camerarius’ watercolors and interpretative texts are accompanied by extensive notes so that his influences and intended effects can be clearly understood.

The volume contains the first publication of the five most important of the early epistolary relationships between Sigmund von Birken and various literary figures and patrons. They are instructive sources for the biographies, works, and print careers of all those involved, as well as for a finer perception of the role played by literature and literary figures in 17th century German-speaking society.

Andreas Gryphius' »Leichabdankungen« (funeral sermons and speeches), presented here for the first time in a critical edition, are unique examples of the culture of mourning and consolation existing in the early modern age. The edition is based on the posthumous collected edition of 1666. An appendix contains all those supplements to the first prints of the »Leichabdankungen« that were not included in the collected edition and all other texts by Gryphius relating to the persons thus commemorated. The concluding section supplies the most important bibliographic, prosopographic, and historical information required.

The correspondence presented here extends over a period of almost two decades (1662--1681) and is one of the most revealing literary exchanges of the 17th century. The hitherto unpublished and largely unknown texts supply rich source material for reconstructions of the history of the author's works and for studies on social history and the history of mentality. Not least, they provide new access to the work of one of the most influential writers and literary managers after Opitz and one of the most important German authors of the 17th century.

Friedrich Maximilian Klinger's »Geschichte Biafars des Barmeciden« appeared in two parts between 1792 and 1794 and was the third volume in a planned cycle of ten philosophical novels. Though Klinger's engagement with Kant in this work met with a muted response from the critics, 1798 saw the publication of a revised and expanded edition of the novel. The last edition authorized by Klinger appeared in 1816 in the framework of the complete edition of his works. This new publication is based on the 1792-94 version and includes all variants authorized by Klinger. The introduction informs the reader on the history of the novel's inception, transmission, and impact.

Friedrich Maximilian Klinger's (1752-1831) tragedy "Die Zwillinge" (The Twins) is generally held to be one of the most important and dramatically successful stage plays of the Sturm und Drang period. Klinger's own high opinion of the play is reflected in the way he constantly reworked it throughout his life, with the result that there are a number of very different extant versions. This volume is first of all a parallel edition of the first version of 1776 and the reworking of 1792. Further it contains the manuscript variants from later revisions by Klinger and Karl Morgenstern, his authorized assistant, as well as those transcribed from the manuscript of the Hamburg performing version by Friedrich Ludwig Schroeder (1780). The variant apparatus gives access to all authorized versions and the Introduction provides detailed information on the genesis of the play and the history of its publication and reception.

Hier wird erstmals die handschriftliche, überwiegend lateinisch verfaßte Autobiographie Birkens publiziert. Der Band enthält eine Transkription des Textes, eine ausführliche Einleitung, einen Kommentar (mit Übersetzung der lateinischen Passagen) und Register. Es ist sehr sinnvoll, daß die Edition mit diesem Band eröffnet wird: Auf diese Darstellung seines Lebens nämlich geht die gesamte spätere Birken-Biographik zurück. Freilich ist sie nie direkt ausgewertet worden, sondern hat ihre Wirkungsgeschichte über zwei Darstellungen des 17. und 18. Jahrhunderts entfaltet, deren Verfasser die Autobiographie nach je besonderen Gesichtspunkten ausgewertet haben. Die Veröffentlichung dieses Textes bietet die Möglichkeit, am Beispiel der Birken-Biographik als einem besonders deutlichen Einzelfall Möglichkeiten und Grenzen literaturwissenschaftlicher Biographik zu studieren.

Die Gedichte des Freiherrn von Canitz (1654-1699) waren bis zur Mitte des 18. Jahrhunderts in jedermanns Hand. Canitz galt als Erneuerer der deutschen Poesie, weil er als erster seine Schreibart am Klassizismus Boileau'scher Prägung orientierte. Die letzte Gesamtausgabe dieses Opitz redivivus erschien 1772. Grundlage der hier vorgelegten historisch-kritischen Ausgabe ist die Prachtedition Königs von 1727, die - mit Ausnahme von Königs Abhandlung über den guten Geschmack - vollständig wiedergegeben wird (Neusatz aus der Fraktur). Der Apparat enthält vor allem die Lesarten der vorangehenden, sehr fehlerhaften Ausgaben von 1700 bis 1719, der 1737 von Bodmer besorgten sowie der späteren Berner Ausgaben 1764-1772. Die Kenntnis der frühen Lesarten ist zur Korrektur der zahlreichen Eingriffe Königs in den Text unentbehrlich; der Apparat will aber insgesamt auch als Teil einer Wirkungsgeschichte verstanden werden, für die im Kommentar sowie in einem gesonderten Abschnitt zahlreiche weitere Zeugnisse mitgeteilt werden. Bei der einstmals ungewöhnlichen Verbreitung und Beliebtheit der Gedichte des brandenburgischen Diplomaten, der an ihre Veröffentlichung nie gedacht hatte und doch für Jahrzehnte zu einem Klassiker erster Ordnung wurde, dürfte vor allem dem Literaturhistoriker der vollständige Überblick über deren Textgeschichte und der Einblick in die Reaktionen des Lesers (bis hin zum späten Goethe) willkommen sein.

Before Goethe's »Werther« arrived on the scene, Sebastian Brant's (1457-1521) central work »The Ship of Fools« (1494ff.) was the most successful book ever published in German. In 112 chapters, this moral satire presents as many fools and follies to the reader, with a view to prompting Brant's contemporaries to take thought and mend their ways. One remarkable feature is the close connection between text and images, which did much to enhance the impact and the dissemination of the book when it was first published. The fourth reprint of this study edition is fully up to date in bibliographic terms and takes account of the renewed upsurge of research interest caused by the 500th anniversary (1994) of the first appearance of the book.

Die Neukirchsche Sammlung barocker Gedichte erschien in sieben Teilen in den Jahren 1695 bis 1727 und blieb durch Neuauflagen der verschiedenen Teile mindestens bis zur Mitte des 18. Jahrhunderts dem lesenden Publikum vertraut. Die Neuausgabe der Anthologie - in Fraktur - folgt dem frühesten vollständigen Druck, sprachliche und sachliche Fehler wurden beibehalten, aber in den Anmerkungen erläutert, offensichtliche Druckfehler wurden ohne besonderen Hinweis korrigiert.

The set encompasses the complete edition of the works of Johann Christian Günther. The five volumes (volume V in two sub-volumes) of the "Text-Critical Edition" are now available in paperback for the first time, marking the 300th anniversary of the poet's death. The paperback set is thus a foundational work for all researchers studying the literature of the transitional period between the late Baroque and early Enlightenment.