Ikonische Prägnanz von Schrift und die Prägung der Überlieferung: Beobachtungen zum editorischen Textverständnis anlässlich der Neuausgaben von ›Rosengarten‹ und ›Wunderer‹ in den ›Texten und Studien zur mittelhochdeutschen Heldenepik‹ (TSMH)

Editing Middle High German texts today is led much more by the ventilation of practical necessities than by theoretical consideration. Especially lacking discussions of a basic concept of ›text‹ raises the risk of developing blind spots. The article will try to identify these blind spots as places where the traditional strategy of editing texts on the basis of the faulty-replication model persists. This will be illustrated by new editions of the ›Wunderer‹ and the ›Rosengarten‹. Furthermore, the article evolves a semiotic model of the philological praxis of editing Middle High German heroic epics.