Abstract
Abstract The article focuses on editions of poetry from the prae-Gutenberg galaxis, coined by a doubled transformation process. The first transformation took place when such old texts were written down in (mostly medieval) manuscripts. The second transformation is the modern edition of the texts, based on the extant manuscripts. Modern philological debate suffers from the fact that it is concentrated on this second transformation, which is nowadays mostly seen as problematic, while not taking into account that even the supposedly ‘authentic’ manuscript transmission implies a sometimes even harsh alienation from what might have been the original state of a poem. From the perspective of scholarly editing, we are confronted with the question of which texts we constitute when relying on the principle of ‚Überlieferungsnähe‘, and if there is, as was the belief of editors of the ‘long’ 19th century, a way back behind the transmission. Examples are taken from the German lyric poetry of the 12th and 13th century (‚Minnesang‘).
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