Armesünderblätter Online – Annotation and Analysis of 18th Century Broadsheets
This project is dedicated to the so-called ‘Armesünderblätter’, which were printed and distributed on the occasion of executions in Vienna in the 18th century.
The 180 surviving broadsheets will be presented for the first time as a collection in a research-oriented web application and analysed using digital methods from both philological and historical research perspectives.
The digital transformation of the fragile individual sheets consists of the creation of reliable full texts and their multidimensional annotation in TEI/XML format, whereby in particular structural, content-related, typographical and linguistic aspects are coded.
The digital representation of the Armesünderblätter - as an edition and as a corpus - is based on the Static Cookie Cutter framework developed at the ACDH-CH. Its functions offer several access options to the facsimiles and the texts enriched with knowledge: The simple and advanced full-text search as well as the metadata-based query allow today's readers to find new approaches to these time distant execution broadsheets.
The web application, which is based on the latest research findings, conveys philologically and culturally historically verified knowledge about executions in Vienna and thus makes a significant contribution to understanding the messages of the Armesünderblätter today.
PUBLICATIONS:
Resch, Claudia: „ACh! Wie hart fallt jetzt das scheiden“. Urlaublieder des 18. Jahrhunderts – digitale Aufbereitung und Annotation. In: Wiener Digitale Revue 2 2021. URL: journals.univie.ac.at/index.php/wdr/article/view/6087 (Accessed: 04/04/2024).
Resch, Claudia: Street Literature des 18. Jahrhunderts: Flugpublizistik als vernachlässigter Untersuchungsgegenstand sprach- und literaturwissenschaftlicher Forschung. In: Anna Havinga & Bettina Lindner-Bornemann (Eds.), Deutscher Sprachgebrauch im 18. Jahrhundert. Sprachmentalität, Sprachwirklichkeit, Sprachreichtum. (Reihe Germanistische Bibliothek 71). Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter 2022, 233–258.
Resch, Claudia: Zur digitalen Erschließung historischer Flugblätter: Die Todtes- vnd End-Urtheile des 18. Jahrhunderts als Korpus. In: Renata Szczepaniak, Lisa Dücker & Stefan Hartmann (Eds.), Hexenverhörprotokolle als sprachhistorisches Korpus. Fallstudien zur Erschließung der frühneuzeitlichen Schriftsprache (Reihe Germanistische Linguistik 322). Berlin / Boston: de Gruyter 2020, 269–292.
Resch, Claudia, Schopper, Daniel, Wissik, Tanja & Fasching, Daniela: Encoding Crime and Punishment: The Digital Processing of Early Modern Broadsheets from Vienna. In: Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative 11. Online since 17 October 2019. URL: journals.openedition.org/jtei/1925; DOI: 10.4000/jtei.1925 (Accessed: 04/04/2024).
Resch, Claudia & Tanja Wissik: Rechtssprachliche Aspekte in historischen Flugblättern des 18. Jahrhunderts. Fachsprache 41 (2019), 41–60.
Fasching, Daniela, and Claudia Resch. 2018. Female Murderers and the Representation of Crime in Execution Broadsheets in 18th-Century Vienna. Law, Crime and History 8: 108-125.