Kofler intermedial. Annotated Edition Werner Kofler

The Austrian author Werner Kofler (1947-2011), known for his radical and uncompromising satirical texts, is considered one of the most powerfully eloquent linguistic virtuosos of German- language literature. With the three-volume annotated edition of his prose (FWF-Project 27418), his allusive work will receive its long-awaited recognition in the summer of 2018. Kofler intermedial will, on the one hand, make his dramatic works (24 radio plays, the film script Im Museum, and both stage plays) accessible to readers as Volume IV of the annotated edition, and on the other hand it will establish a research platform that presents innovative solutions and instruments for exploring intermedia in Kofler`s work. Kofler`s oeuvre crosses all genre boundaries, and the intertwining of his texts with the media of music, image, film, and theatre are manifold. The Kofler Platform will make samples of acoustic and visual realizations audible and visible, and connect them directly with the corresponding text passages. This will provide the research into intermediality with an innovative working basis for consider- ing the phenomenon, often portrayed in cultural studies, of the voice. Kofler`s work, frequently labelled polyphonic, is uniquely suited for examining the interrelations between text and voice. The proposed online platform will offer the complete annotations to the edition in addition to making the intermedial `textual movements` visible via network analysis. Selected methods of quantitative textual analysis as well as strategies for visualization and instructional implementa- tion (didactisation) will complete the online presentation of Kofler intermedial. This research project considers itself a decisive step towards canonizing and mediating Werner Kofler`s literature. It hopes to make a substantial contribution to research on the radio play and intermediality, and to discuss and develop approaches to solving the current challenges of digital humanities in dealing with copyrighted literature.

The Austrian author Werner Kofler (1947-2011), known for his radical and uncompromising satirical texts, is considered one of the most powerfully eloquent linguistic virtuosos of German-language literature. Kofler intermedial makes, on the one hand, his dramatic works (20 radio plays and three stage plays), his poetry and short prose accessible to readers as Volume IV and V of the annotated edition, and on the other hand it establishes a research platform that presents innovative solutions and instruments for exploring intermedia in Kofler's work (www.wernerkofler.at). Kofler's oeuvre crosses all genre boundaries, and the intertwining of his texts with the media of music, image, film, and theatre are manifold. The Kofler platform presents 15 complete radio plays as well as the film "Im Museum" including the film script. Two radio plays are made avail-able to researchers in digital editions, with audio, the reading text, renotate and typescript - to be linked in synoptic view for readers. This provides the research into intermediality with an innovative working basis for considering the phenomenon, often portrayed in cultural studies, of the voice. Kofler's work, frequently labelled polyphonic, is uniquely suited for examining the interrelations between text and voice. The online platform, which also offers the complete commentary on the edition of the work, also makes the central passages of the text visible via network analysis, shows the most important historical events addressed by the work in a timeline, and offers maps of the Carinthian and Viennese "Kofler places" in the sense of literary mapping. This research project considers itself a decisive step towards canonizing and mediating Werner Kofler's literature. It hopes to make a substantial contribution to research on the radio play and intermediality, and to discuss and develop approaches to solving the current challenges of digital humanities in dealing with copyrighted literature.