The Edition of Adolf Hitler's Speeches 1933–1945

• Applicants: Professor Dr. Magnus Bernhard Brechtken; Professor Dr. Christoph Cornelißen
• Subject Area: Modern and Contemporary History ; Image and Language Processing, Computer Graphics and Visualisation, Human Computer Interaction, Ubiquitous and Wearable Computing
• Term: since 2023
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 521316864

Hitler's speeches (1933-1945) are a central source for the nature of National Socialism and its ruling practise. The project aims at completely recording them, making them accessible in their original wording in sound and text, as far as the difficult recording situation allows it. A concentrated, careful commentary will place the speeches in their historical context, present the persons mentioned and briefly explain the most important facts to which Hitler refers. In an audio commentary special auditory and broadcasting aspects will be pointed out. For the first time, the edition makes it possible to present the situation, target audience, content, language and performance in an empirically secured way in an unprecedented overall view. A print edition, its online version in open access and a digital text and audio edition with controlled access, aim to meet the needs of interdisciplinary academic research, journalism, public history and educational events. Due to their respective functionalities, the online version in Open Access and the digital text and audio edition in particular allow targeted research and the conduct of serial investigations. The edition can promote a historical-critical examination of right-wing populism and right-wing extremism and provide well-founded answers to the politically highly topical, socially relevant questions about their intellectual proximity to the historical National Socialism.

• DFG Programme: Research Grants
• Co-Investigators: Professor Dr.-Ing. Bernd Freisleben; Dr. Götz Lachwitz; Professor Dr. Henning Lobin