Digitisation

Digitization

Sustainable Building in Berlin - Hugo Häring's Architectural Plans

1700 plans and drawings by important architect Hugo Häring (1882-1958) from his estate, which is held in the Archives of the Akademie der Künste, have been conservationally preserved, digitised and put online to stimulate new research approaches and perspectives.

Digitization

Heinrich Mann DIGITAL – A transnational reconstruction

For the first time, an international portal enables the virtual consolidation of the scattered collections making up Heinrich Mann’s bequest.

Digitization

Digitization and editing of the correspondence between Hans and Lea Grundig

As a joint project of the Hans and Lea Grundig Foundation and the Archives of the Akademie der Künste, the entire correspondence between the painter Hans Grundig and the graphic artist Lea Grundig is being digitized, scientifically processed and edited.

Digitization

„Whodidwhattowhomwasneverreallyclear…“

Indexing and digitisation of the dance films of the Tanzfabrik Berlin

In a cooperative project, dance films produced by the Tanzfabrik Berlin from the 1970s to the 1990s, which have been in the Performing Arts Archives of the Akademie der Künste since 2012, were indexed, digitised and made available online.

Digitization

Digitising the historic exhibition catalogues and presenting them online

For many years, the art exhibitions held by the Prussian Akademie der Künste were a leading medium in Berlin's art and cultural life. The project involves the digitisation and online presentation of 216 exhibition catalogues from 1786 to 1943.

Digitization

Digitising Carl Einstein’s literary and art historical papers

In cooperation with the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, art historian Carl Einstein's handwritten papers, a total of over 8000 pages, were digitised and are now freely accessible via the Archives Database.

Digitization

Digitising Brecht’s Manuscripts

The Archives of the Akademie der Künste has started the process of digitising all the manuscripts held in the Bertolt Brecht Archive. Over the coming years, all typescripts, handwritten manuscripts, letters, documents, newspaper clippings and photos from the Bertolt Brecht Archive folders are to be scanned and successively made available internally at monitors in the reading room.

Digitization

John Heartfield. Online Catalogue and Virtual Exhibition

The personal papers and artistic estate of John Heartfield, comprising a total of around 6200 items, are considered the best-known holding in the Akademie der Künste's Art Collection. Not only do these items include original photomontages and designs for book covers and posters, but also stage and costume designs as well as Heartfield's collection of materials. Thanks to generous funding by the Ernst von Siemens Kunststiftung, this indexing project is making the entire holdings publicly accessible.

Digitization

Securing and digitising the cinematographic works in the Bertolt Brecht Archive of the Akademie der Künste

The cinematographic holdings of the Bertolt Brecht Archive of the Akademie der Künste comprise around 50 titles on approx. 70,000 metres of analogue film material. In cooperation with the Deutsche Kinemathek and funded by the LOTTO-Stiftung Berlin and the Federal Government's Commissioner for Culture and the Media (BKM), the cinematographic works in the Bertolt Brecht Archive are being secured and subsequently made available to the general public.

Digitization

Creating an index of students at the Prussian Akademie der Künste 1751 – 1875

One of the Prussian Akademie der Künste's key tasks was to provide academic training for visual artists. Whether a particular artist actually studied at the Akademie der Künste, will be available via a full text database.

Digitization

Digitising the Literature Archive’s analogue inventories and finding aids

The Archives of the Akademie der Künste has digitised inventories and finding aids dating from between 1950 and 1996 for the personal papers of 33 authors. Now, online users can browse and search for information in a total of 57 inventories (inventories for some holdings comprise several volumes) with over 21,000 individual items.

Digitization

Retroconversion of the Art Collection’s card inventory

For decades, index cards listing individual art works as well as bundles of papers (portfolios, etc.) were the primary finding aid for Art Collection staff and visitors. To facilitate the digital indexing of the holdings, an external service was commissioned to scan the pre-sorted index cards.

Digitization

Digitising the Modellbücher (‘model books’) and the Hainer Hill Photo Archive in the Bertolt Brecht Archive

In 2013, with financial support from the Berlin Senate Chancellery – Cultural Affairs, a complex process of restoration was successfully completed for 104 of Bertolt Brecht's Modellbücher ('model books'), some heavily worn, as well as 724 photographs by Hainer Hill.

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Digitising the Prussian Akademie der Künste Archives

The most extensive digitising project as yet in the Akademie der Künste Archives was successfully concluded in 2016. The Prussian Akademie der Künste Archives comprising over 77 linear metres has now been fully digitised.

Digitization

Digitising Florens Christian Rang’s personal papers

The Hamburger Stiftung zur Förderung von Wissenschaft und Kultur took over the personal papers of Florens Christian Rang (1864–1924) as a donation for the Walter Benjamin Archive. During the last years of his life, Florens Christian Rang, German theologian, politician and writer, was one of Walter Benjamin's close friends.

Digitization

Securing and digitising Theodor W. Adorno’s personal papers

The Theodor W. Adorno Archive is an institution of the Hamburger Stiftung zur Förderung von Wissenschaft und Kultur, the owner of Adorno's entire unpublished personal papers. Since 2004, the Theodor W. Adorno Archive has been integrated into the Institute of Social Research (Frankfurt am Main), so much a part of Adorno's biography.