Der "edierte Editor". Die Erstausgabe der Gedichte Hoelderlins durch Ludwig Uhland und Gustav Schwab und die Bemuehungen des Autors, eigene und fremde Texte zu edieren

The essay reconstructs the history of the first edition of Friedrich Hölderlin’s poetry, published in 1826 by Ludwig Uhland and Gustav Schwab, after a long gestation period, started in 1820 by Johann Heinrich Diest, who was a lieutenant in the Prussian army stationed in Berlin and was in contact with the Romantics. In many ways, the history is a paradigm of the approach to Hölderlin’s texts by his editors, who censured them, superimposed their own aesthetic tastes and inserted ideological intentions. On the other hand, the essay intends to show how Hölderlin himself was interested in publishing his texts in a certain way, and was therefore – at least potentially – his own “editor”. In particular, the essay means to clarify how the Romantic poetics of the “fragment” was extraneous to the author. This leads to the problem of how to publish, today, his texts that remained unfinished.