Berlin rock and pop archive
The Berlin Rock and Pop Archive was an archive whose aim was to document the history of music in West and East Berlin since 1958.
history
It was founded in 1983 by Lutz T. Manthe and musician friends under the name Berliner Rockmusik Archiv to collect and document exhibits from Berlin rock and pop music.
In order to ensure that the collected materials - even in the event of the association's dissolution - remain accessible to the State of Berlin and thus to the public, the Berlin Rock and Pop Archive was affiliated with the Stadtmuseum Berlin Foundation . The foundation was formed by the association's statutes.
On October 28, 2005 the statutes of the Berlin Rock and Pop Archive were changed. V., which ended the collaboration with the Berlin City Museum Foundation. The association was dissolved in 2011. The liquidation of the association was completed on August 28, 2012; the holdings and the associated database became the property of the Archives of Youth Cultures Association , which contractually undertook to continue the work that had been done so far.
For 2014 he applied for two-year funding from the Berlin Class Lottery Foundation and received - with the approval of the Berlin Senate for Culture - 329,000 euros for the construction of a Berlin-related pop and subculture archive with a "related" database.
In addition to thousands of sound carriers, the collection includes posters, videos, photos, stickers, badges, gimmicks as well as musicians and band biographies. The collection includes a. Documents from Einstürzende Neubauten , Ideal , Interzone , Nina Hagen , Klaus Renft , Tamara Danz , City , Puhdys and Karat .
Web links
- Berlin pop and subculture archive at the archive of youth cultures