Ilse Aichingers Lyrik
Das gedruckte Werk und die Handschriften
[Ilse Aichinger's poetry. The printed work and the manuscripts]

Ilse Aichinger's poetry belongs more to the postulated than to the actual literary canon: almost a hundred of the poems and poetry sketches kept in the German Literature Archive Marbach are still unpublished, and a methodologically sound overview study for the award-winning work has been lacking so far.
The volume offers analyses of all printed and unprinted poems and prose density, drafts and preliminary stages. A combination of quantitative evaluation methods with precise text analysis as well as the breakdown of preliminary stages and drafts according to text-genetic aspects allow the characteristics and lines of development of this poetry to become comprehensible and to reveal previously unseen text references. It becomes apparent how consciously selection processes have taken place in the working process and in publication policy. Text structure and text control make the poetic principles that characterise this lyrical work visible in relation to one another.
Excursuses on the prose poet Günter Eich and on the parallels with regard to Paul Celan's handling of biographical traces locate Aichinger's work in his time and open up new approaches to researching the history of poetry after 1945.

In German.