Martin Auer
Pioneer of the Internet literature
Jura Soyfer Open Access is an online archive that contains works by Jura Soyfer and documents concerning this work.
Open access is a set of principles and a range of practices through which research outputs are distributed online, free of cost or other access barriers. With open access strictly defined (according to the 2001 definition), or libre open access, barriers to copying or reuse are also reduced or removed by applying an open license for copyright (Wikipedia).
The greates part of the archive is truly open access, with only a few exceptions that require an access code.
Above all the archive makes accessible the 1912 edition of Jura Soyfer’s writings. The four volumes, edited by Herbert Arlt, incorporate all the author’s works that have been found so far: dramatic works, prose, poetry and letters.
The second department of the archive presents facsimiles of letters by and to Jura Soyfer from 1931 to 1938. Furthermore the correspondence between Helli Ultmann (Andis) and Marika Szecsi (Rapoport) 1938 to 1946, and a letter by Marika Rapoport to Eva Breuer from 1946.
The third department presents facsimiles of typescripts, namely two versions of „Astoria“, „Broadway Melodie – 1492“, „Der treuest Bürger Bagdads“, „Geschichtsstunde 2035“, „Der Lechner Edi schaut ins Paradies“, two fragments of „So starb eine Partei“ and two versions of „Der Weltuntergang“.
The fourth department is dedicated to documents concerning Soyfer’s biography. It presents the rare photographs of the author.
The fifth department presents documents concerning the circulation of Soyfer’s works: print editions, translations, theatrical productions, radio plays, film adaptions and secondary literature.
The sixth department will present more scientific literature concerning Jura Soyfer. Among others it will document all the symposia from 1989 to the present. There are about 150 documents awaiting publication.
The archive is a work in progress. There are hundreds of files that neeed to be incorporated and thousands of pages that still need to be scanned and archived.