Archive of the Academy of Arts
The Archive of the Academy of Arts brings together since 1993 the holdings of the "founded in 1950 Academy of Arts of the GDR " and the "Academy of Arts, founded in 1954 Berlin (West) " and develops timely. It also looks after the museum facilities of the Brecht-Weigel Memorial and the Anna Seghers Memorial. Due to the holdings and the collection strategy, it is considered the most important archive for art and culture in the German-speaking area from 1900.
assignment
The archive acquires archives and legacies of artistic and cultural historical importance on all the arts represented in the academy and makes them available to science and the public (exhibitions, lectures, readings, concerts, publications, external exhibitions).
In keeping with the mutual penetration of the arts in the 20th and 21st centuries, the archive is focused on their interrelationships. The interaction of authors, writers, composers, directors, performing artists and visual artists in all art genres (such as media, visual and performative arts, including opera and song, film, theater and cabaret) is understood and made tangible in an interdisciplinary manner. The institutional separation between genres such as the visual and performing arts will be overcome, as will the separation of film and theater archives for directors and actors.
The overarching collecting strategy refers to a framework of experience that shaped the arts, such as exile during National Socialism or the situation of the arts in the GDR .
The archive and library holdings at Robert-Koch-Platz in Berlin-Mitte are available free of charge for scientific, journalistic or private studies.
The art collection of the Foundation Archive of the Academy of the Arts in Luisenstrasse 60 in Berlin-Mitte contains around 60,000 works and 30,000 posters. The collection focuses on artists related to the academy and members of the academy and their sphere of activity. It can only be viewed after registration.
history
Parts of the archive of the Prussian Academy of the Arts , founded in 1694/1696, have been preserved. They are located in the historical archive of the Archives of the Academy of Arts. Today's archive of the academy, as a unique interdisciplinary collection, was created through the transfer of the estates of the members of the academy and through initiatives to take over other estates and archives. The first members of the German Academy of the Arts, founded in East Berlin in 1950, brought valuable individual items and entire bequests. For the most part, it was returned emigrants who viewed the academy as their spiritual home after the Nazi era and emigration. For example, Wieland Herzfelde (originally Herzfeld) handed over drawings by George Grosz that had been treasured through several emigration stations, and later the artistic estate of his brother John Heartfield . At the Akademie der Künste in Berlin (West), the takeover of estates, and especially their scientific processing, were funded by Walter Huder , who headed its archive from 1959 to 1986. Wolfgang Trautwein headed the archive from 1986 to 2015, Birgit Jooss in 2015 and Werner Heegewaldt since 2016.
structure
The organizational management of the archive is the archive directorate consisting of the director Werner Heegewaldt and the deputy director Sabine Wolf , as well as the archive council.
Erdmut Wizisla has headed the Bertolt Brecht Archive since 1993 and the Walter Benjamin Archive since 2004 .
Collection areas
Only indicated here in a narrow selection of encyclopedically relevant names and collections:
Fine arts archive
Collections: Werner Haftmann
Estates of painters, graphic artists, sculptors, art historians and publicists: Lovis Corinth , George Grosz , John Heartfield , Käthe Kollwitz , HAP Grieshaber , Christian Theunert
Archive: Archive Klaus Hoffmann
Documents from artists 'associations and artists' associations
Architecture archive
Archives and personal holdings: Karl Friedrich Schinkel , Adolf Behne , Erich Mendelsohn , Harry Rosenthal , Julius Posener , Haus-Rucker-Co , Jörg Schlaich , Rudolf Bergermann
Estates: Hans Scharoun , Bruno Taut , Max Taut , Karl Otto
Music archive
Legacies, working archives, personal holdings (composers, conductors, interpreters, theorists, publicists): Siegfried Behrend , Ernest Borneman , Paul Hindemith , Arnold Schönberg , Hans Zender , Bernd Alois Zimmermann , Hanns Eisler , Paul Dessau , Johannes Fritsch , Helmut Lachenmann , György Ligeti , Ralph Benatzky , Blandine Ebinger , Eduard Künneke , Friedrich Hollaender
Literature archive
Personal holdings: Günter Grass , Harald Hartung , Christa Wolf , Edgar Hilsenrath , Helmut Heißenbüttel , Imre Kertész , Georg Kreisler , Gottfried Benn , Leonhard Frank , Klabund , Carl Einstein , Salomo Friedlaender , Walter von Molo , Kurt Tucholsky , Walter Mehring , Erich Mühsam , Johannes R. Becher , Anna Seghers , Arnold Zweig , Hans Werner Richter , Walter Jens , Wolfdietrich Schnurre , Peter Weiss , Heiner Müller , Kurt Bartsch , Jurek Becker , Ehm Welk , Ronald M. Schernikau
Estates: Heinrich Mann , Georg Kaiser
Archives by authors: Archive Ginka Steinwachs , Archive Walter Kempowski , Walter Benjamin Archive, Theodor-W.-Adorno -Archiv Frankfurt am Main (manuscripts and materials as reproductions), Bertolt Brecht Archive,
Archives of literary institutions: Writers' Association of the GDR , PEN associations of West and East German, Central House Archive for Cultural Work of the GDR , Volk und Welt publishing house
Performing arts archive
Personal holdings: Erwin Piscator , Tilla Durieux , Heinrich George , Alexander Lang , Einar Schleef , Bernhard Minetti , George Tabori , Kurt Hübner , Walter Felsenstein , Ruth Berghaus , Götz Friedrich , Heiner Müller , Frank Castorf , Christoph Marthaler , Peter Zadek , Julius Bab , Alfred Kerr , Wolfgang Neuss , Mary Wigman , Gret Palucca , Valeska Gert
19 thematic collections (2011)
Film archive
Personal archives: Heiner Carow , Ulrich Plenzdorf , Paul Wegener , Helmut Käutner , Dieter Borsche , OE Hasse , Hanna Schygulla , Sabine Sinjen , Jeanine Meerapfel , Konrad Wolf
Archives of important DEFA # Important DEFA directors
Art collection
Personal holdings: Johann Gottfried Schadow , Daniel Chodowiecki , Michael Ruetz , Alfonso Hüppi , Thomas Huber
Honoré Daumier's bronze busts of parliamentarians
Calligraphy collection
Initiative and foundation 1999 by Hans-Joachim Burgert , contains the estate of Friedrich Poppl .
Historical archive
Prussian Academy of Arts 1696–1955, Academy of Arts (East) 1950–1993, Academy of Arts (West) 1955–1993, Academy of Arts from 1993
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.adk.de/de/archiv/aufbau-lösungen/
- ↑ http://www.adk.de/de/archiv/benutzerservice/ User Service
- ↑ Gudrun Schmidt: Culture reports 1/01: Art Collection of the Foundation Archive of the Academy of Arts. ASKI - Working Group of Independent Cultural Institutes, pp. 1.6f , accessed on February 8, 2010 .
- ↑ Gudrun Schmidt: Culture reports 1/01: Art Collection of the Foundation Archive of the Academy of Arts. ASKI - Working Group of Independent Cultural Institutes, p. 1.4 , accessed on February 8, 2010 .
- ↑ https://www.adk.de/de/archiv/organisation/
- ↑ https://www.adk.de/de/archiv/organisation/archivdirektion.htm
- ↑ https://www.adk.de/de/archiv/organisation/archiv-rat.htm
- ↑ a b Lydia Kotzan: New in the archive: Szyszkowitz-Kowalski and Schlaich Bergermann , in: Bauwelt 22, June 4, 2010, p. 4