German Typewriter Museum
 Museum seat in the monument of a former orphanage |
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Bayreuth 
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| Art |
Technology history
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| opening | 1936 |
| operator |
Research and training center for shorthand and word processing in Bayreuth e. V.
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| management |
Holger Woppmann
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| ISIL | DE-MUS-013016 |
The German Typewriter Museum is located in the Bayreuth district of St. Georgen in the former Leers ' orphanage from 1901. The museum documents the development of the typewriter from its invention in 1864 to the present day. The arsenal is based on a collection from 1934. Today the museum is operated by the research and training center for shorthand and word processing in Bayreuth e. V. , who runs the museum on a voluntary basis.
history
The basis for today's museum was the German Stenographers' Association in Kulmbach . For the tests of teachers of touch typing 1934 and 1935 the institution began to collect historical typewriters. It is not known on whose initiative the collection was actually brought into being. At that time, the devices were used exclusively for lectures.
At Pentecost 1936, the House of Shorthand was inaugurated in Bayreuth , which the population simply called the Stenohaus . With that, the German Stenographers moved to Bayreuth and brought the machine collection with presumably 120 typewriters and calculating machines . The devices were still reserved for teaching purposes only. Responsible was the lecturer Carl Müller, who was to become chairman of the research and training center for shorthand and word processing in Bayreuth from 1956 to 1958 , the current operator of the museum.
With the end of the Second World War , many typewriters were lost, and the house, including the typewriters, fell to the Free State of Bavaria by law in 1945 . In 1947, the research and training center for shorthand and typing was re-established in Bayreuth . The Free State handed over the 86 remaining writing implements to her in trust for maintenance and use. Donations and a few purchases increased the collection piece by piece. In 1965 negotiations took place with the Bavarian Ministry of Finance , and after the payment of a transfer fee , the collection became the property of the research institute. In 1968 the collection had grown to around 130 pieces. In 1974 the museum moved from the now dilapidated building to the Reger Private Business School .
The move to today's address took place in 1982. Until then, the collection had operated as the “Museum of Historic Typewriters”. In 1984 it was opened to the public as the “German Typewriter Museum” in a separate exhibition room at the research facility.
Exhibits
The exhibits bear witness to the development of writing technology over the last century and a half, with technical variants and different stages of development. The calculating machines that were initially collected have now been dispensed with. In 2006 the number of exhibits was 428, for 2019 numbers of over 300 or over 600 are communicated. Around 150 of these are on display in the museum, according to other sources there are 250 or 450.
The presentation on the development of mechanical writing implements begins with a replica of the world's first surviving typewriter, the first writing instrument by Peter Mitterhofer from 1864. A follow-up model from 1874 by Sholes & Glidden , which has already been mass-produced, is well preserved to visit. Other historical machines are, for example, the Bar-Lock, Mignon or an Ultima manufactured in Germany in 1914 . Electronically controlled machines are represented in the museum by the history of the IBM typewriters.
In 2006 there were thoughts about expanding the museum towards computers. Even if rooms and finances were lacking, PCs from the early days were stored in order to be able to exhibit them one day, including a Commodore 8032 . But the museum is concentrating on its core competency. The collection is continuously expanded as far as spatial conditions permit. A lack of space accompanies the recent history of the museum. “We don't even know what to do with all the typewriters that are brought to us.” ( Jörg Heimler : Nordbayerischer Kurier ) The rooms of the former orphanage are semi-optimal for storing the stocks. In 2015, the museum director Holger Woppmann wanted exhibition rooms in the city center.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ German Typewriter Museum. In: architektur-bildarchiv.de. Architektur-Bildarchiv, Herten, accessed on September 15, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c Typewriter Museum. German Typewriter Museum. In: Bayreuth.Bayern-online.de. Netz Aktiv AG, accessed on September 13, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c d e The German Typewriter Museum. In: Research institute online. Research and training center for shorthand and word processing in Bayreuth EV (FAKT), accessed on September 13, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i Hans Gebhardt: 70 years of the German Typewriter Museum . In: Research and training center for shorthand and word processing in Bayreuth EV (Hrsg.): Archive for shorthand - word processing - information technology . No. 3 , 2006, p. 83 f . ( forschungsstaette.de [PDF; accessed on September 12, 2019]).
- ↑ a b c d e Between Spessart and Karwendel. Details - clock and keys: The "German Typewriter Museum". In: rbb - ARD Play-Out-Center. Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg RBB, accessed on September 19, 2019 .
- ↑ a b c German Typewriter Museum. In: www.bayreuth.de. City of Bayreuth, accessed on September 13, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Michael Weiser: Too little space, too much to show, too close to the edge: Typewriter Museum has problems. Looking for a place: a museum and its treasures. In: Nordbayerischer Kurier. Nordbayerischer Kurier Zeitungsverlag GmbH, September 20, 2015, accessed on September 15, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Gordian Beck: Excerpt from the North Bavarian Courier from June 16, 2014. A jewel in the deep sleep. In: Nordbayerischer Kurier. StudyLib, June 16, 2014, accessed September 15, 2019 .