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Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe

Fertigstellung in neukonzipierter Form

Digital Edition: http://megadigital.bbaw.de/index.xql

The Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe (MEGA) is the historical-critical edition of all publications, manuscripts, and drafts as well as the correspondence of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. For the first time, work and legacy are documented here in their entirety and in authentic form, such as manuscripts on “German ideology” and “capital”. Furthermore, previously unknown journalistic contributions by Marx and Engels are identified through author analyses, which are published here for the first time. The correspondence between the two, including the letters of their over 2,000 correspondence partners to them, will be published in full. Finally, all excerpt books and notebooks are published, which open up previously unknown fields of work of Marx, such as his scientific studies.

The edition makes Marx’s encyclopaedic research program visible for the first time. The MEGA thus puts Marx research on a new footing and forms the basis for new text editions worldwide.The edition is edited by the International Marx-Engels-Foundation (IMES), an international network which, in addition to the International Institute for Social History Amsterdam (IISG) and the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (BBAW), includes the Historical Research Centre of the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung in Bonn and the Russian State Archive for Social and Political History (RGASPI) in Moscow.

The work of MEGA is carried out in international research cooperation, coordinated and managed by BBAW, where the secretariat of IMES is based. To date, 64 volumes of the edition have been published. In future, the edition will appear in large parts digitally and be freely accessible: Under “MEGAdigital” central texts on “Capital” are available, furthermore the correspondence as well as the excerpt books and notebooks are published there.

Persons

  • Prof. Dr. Harald Bluhm (Project Leader)
  • Dr. Gerald Hubmann (Office Site Leader)
  • Timm Graßmann M.A. (Research Associate)
  • Dr. Jürgen Herres (Research Associate)
  • Dr. Thomas Lindenberg (Research Associate)
  • Dr. des. Ulrich Pagel (Research Associate)
  • Dr. Claudia Reichel (Research Associate)
  • Dr. Regina Roth (Research Associate)
  • Dr. Hanno Strauß (Research Associate)
  • Dr. Christine Weckwerth (Research Associate)
  • Ulrike Reichhoff (Technical Associate)
Acronym
MEGA
Running time
1970-2031
Project type
Edition

Contact person for the academies' programme

Sebastian Zwies M.A.

Geschäftsstelle Mainz
Union der deutschen Akademien der Wissenschaften
Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 2
55131 Mainz

Tel: 06131/218 528-17
E-Mail: sebastian.zwies@akademienunion.de