Forms and Functions of Authorial Epitexts in the Literary Field of the Present

“副文本”一词通常描述伴随、完成或评论基本或主要文本的文本的类型或要素，它们主要属于作者自己或得到他们的授权。我们可以区分外文，如前言、格言或地名，它们与参考文本的中间部分联系在一起，而外文，如采访、信件或日记条目，通常出现在与它们所指文本的实质距离处。这项与西根大学合作设计的研究项目考察了FWF项目“关于作者副文集在创作作品中的作用”，该项目对1800年前后的时间以及古典现代性进行了模范的仔细观察--不同形式的外文文集及其在当今德语文学领域的作用。这不仅意味着文学-历史的转变，也意味着对改变的文化、经济、特别是中间条件的考虑。基本文本语料库不再完全由书面来源组成--就像上一个项目中的情况一样--但部分也包括视听材料。因为采访或文学奖演讲等作者的摘录在YouTube和其他频道上已经出现了很长一段时间。不仅在媒体技术方面，我们可以假设，目前作者外文的形式和功能是不同的，因此外文的范围扩大并显著增加了对当代德语文学的重要性，而它显然不能被降低为臭名昭著的“点缀”角色。更值得怀疑的是，文学作品在多大程度上为作者身份的外在舞台提供了机会和背景。在明确定义的德语来源语料库的基础上，以理论为指导和材料饱和的方式示范性地审查这些相互关系是我们项目的目标--我们为此分成了三个工作包。除了最初在作者阅读和文学奖颁奖典礼上口头发声的墓志铭之外，重点还在于编造墓志铭的不断增加的变体，这些变体使类无关成为审美游戏的一部分，它在生产上超越了文本和副文本的边界-同时重新标记了它们。

The term 'paratext' generally describes the types or elements of texts which accompany, complete or comment on a basic or main text, they predominantly belong to the authors themselves or were authorised by them. We can differentiate between peritexts, such as prefaces, mottos or eponyms, which are medially tied to their reference text, and epitexts, such as interviews, letters or diary entries, which generally appear in material distance to the text they refer to. The research project designed in cooparation with the University of Siegen examines – subsequently to the FWF project "About the Function of Authorial Paratexts for the Production of Authorship", which took an exemplary close look at the time around 1800 as well at the classical modernity – different forms of epitexts and their function in the German-speaking literary field of the present. This does not only imply a literary-historical shift but also the consideration of changed cultural, econimical and especially medial conditions. The basic text corpus does not exclusively consist of written sources anymore – as still the case in the previous project – but partially also of audiovisual material. Because authorial epitexts, such as interviews or literature prize speeches, have been available on YouTube and other chan-nels for quite a while. Not only with regard to media technology can we assume that forms and functions of authorial epitexts currently differentiate, with the epitextual spectrum therefore extending and significantly gaining importance for the contemporary German-speaking litera-ture, while it evidently cannot be reduced to its notorious role of an 'embellishment'. It rather has to be questioned how far the literary work increasingly offers occasion and setting for the epitextual staging of authorship. Examining these interrelations exemplary in a theory-led and material-saturated way on the basis of a clearly defined, German source corpus is the target of our project – which we have structured in three work packages for this purpose. Beside the epitexts initially voiced orally in the context of author readings and literature prize award cere-monies, the focus also lies on the proliferating variants of fabricated epitexts, which make par-atextuality part of an aesthetic game, which surpasses the borders of text and paratext produc-tively – at the same time marking them anew.