German Dance Archive Cologne
The German Dance Archive Cologne is an information and research center in the Mediapark in Cologne with an archive, library, video library and museum on the past and present of dance art , particularly stage dance .
The archive continuously takes over, manages and documents the legacies and dance documents of well-known personalities in dance history, processes them and presents them to the public in exhibitions and publications.
The institution's dance museum, which opened in 1997, documents the history of dance under changing thematic aspects, primarily with its own holdings - works of art (sculptures, paintings, graphics), photographs, documents, costumes, props or films - up to the present day, with a focus on the dance history of 18th to 20th century.
Place and carrier
The dance archive is housed in MediaPark 7 in Cologne. The institution is run by the SK Stiftung Kultur der Sparkasse KölnBonn and the City of Cologne; The dance scholar Frank-Manuel Peter has been in charge of the dance archive since 1986 (as of 2016).
History and predecessor institutions
The origins of the dance archive date back to the 19th century: from 1873 were at the dance teaching Art Academy in Berlin - the art of dance a library and an archive for the systematic documentation established that in the 1930's to the - the first time in Germany German champions facilities for Dance by Fritz Böhme was continued as the German dance archive and financed with public funds. Of its extensive holdings, however, only a collection of 20 scrapbooks was saved from the destruction of the Second World War , which had been deposited in the Berlin archive and which the owner had taken to Switzerland when the war began. The dance archive itself was completely destroyed in a British air raid on the night of March 2, 1943. After the total loss, Böhme built up a new collection, which was relocated in more than 30 book boxes to Seeberg Castle in what was then Reichsgau Sudetenland , Eger administrative district and has since been lost. Only a very small number of books from this second collection have returned to today's German Dance Archive in Cologne as a gift from a Czech dance enthusiast.
After 1945 the dancer, dance teacher and publicist Kurt Peters continued this tradition and rebuilt the archive on a private initiative, initially in Hamburg and from 1965 in Cologne. These holdings were finally bought in 1985 by the SK Stiftung Kultur and made available to the public together with the city's cultural office.
Stocks
The holdings of the dance archive are divided into four departments: archive , library , video library / film collection and museum collection .
archive
The archive is subdivided into the three areas of bequests and collections , photo archive and documentation .
The area of estates and collections includes estates, partial estates, bequests, personal collections created by close people such as family members or dance students, as well as thematic special collections. These over 400 personal archives include a. extensive holdings on dancers, choreographers and dance teachers such as Isadora , Elizabeth , Anna and Lisa Duncan, Mary Wigman , Harald Kreutzberg , Kurt Jooss , Yvonne Georgi , Dore Hoyer , Vera Skoronel , Birgit Åkesson , Claire Eckstein , Hertha Feist , Lotte Goslar , Niddy Impekoven , Jo Mihaly , Trudi Schoop , Alexander and Clotilde Sacharoff , Leonide Massine , La Jana , Oda Schottmüller , Natascha Trofimowa , Konstanze Vernon and Vivienne Newport as well as by dance writers and critics such as Fritz Böhme , Max Niehaus , Georg Zivier and Horst Koegler . The area of thematic special collections includes, for example, the archives of associations and organizers, dance magazines and collections designed for special aspects such as advertising stamps with dance motifs.
The area of the photo archive includes a central collection with over 160,000 photos and photographer archives on dance history such as those of Siegfried Enkelmann , Hans Rama , Walter Boje , Fritz Peyer and Annelise Löffler . It also contains stocks of vintage prints by well-known photographers such as Hugo Erfurth , Albert Renger-Patzsch , Arnold Genthe and Germaine Krull .
The documentation area comprises around 650,000 newspaper clippings and press kits as well as around 25,000 program booklets.
Library
The library currently contains around 13,000 titles on all dance topics from home and abroad, including rare books from the 16th century and numerous dissertations. In addition, around 16,000 trade journal issues are accessible.
Video library / film collection
The stock of the presence video library currently comprises (as of 2016) over 3,000 productions from various dance film categories such as B. dance films, musicals, documentaries as well as studio and stage recordings. One focus of the collection is video dance and camera choreography. Part of the inventory is accessible via an online catalog.
Museum collection
The collection of works of art related to dance contains a few examples from ancient Greece, as well as sculptures, paintings, several thousand sheets of original graphics (hand drawings, copper engravings, lithographs, etchings, etc.), several thousand posters, as well as dance masks and other props and around 500 Dance costumes (including unique pieces by well-known fashion designers such as Paul Poiret , Fortuny or Madame Grès ). The inventory also includes estates related to dance by visual artists such as Ernst Oppler , Arthur Grunenberg and Raimondo Puccinelli .
Publications of the archive
A separate page on the website provides information about the more than 60 publications of the dance archive (as of 2016).
literature
- Frank-Manuel Peter: Terpsichores Temple. The Museum of the German Dance Archive Cologne. In: Inform! Museums in the Rhineland , published by Landschaftsverband Rheinland , No. 1/1998, pp. 9–11. ISSN 1431-7249.
- Frank-Manuel Peter: Resources and Riches. The German Dance Archive, Cologne. In: Dance Chronicle , Vol. 32, No. 3/2009, pp. 476-489. ISSN 0147-2526.
Web links
- German Dance Archive Cologne , website, accessed March 27, 2018
Remarks
All web links of the annotations last accessed on June 15, 2016, unless otherwise noted.
- ↑ cf. Short biography of Peter at the Cologne University of Music and Dance .
- ^ Frank-Manuel Peter: Resources and Riches. The German Dance Archive, Cologne. In: Dance Chronicle , Vol. 32, No. 3/2009, pp. 476-489, v. a. P. 478.
- ↑ Past and present ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Overview on the archive's website.
- ↑ Overview of the bequests and personal collections ( Memento of the original from August 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the web presence of the dance archive.
- ^ Duncan Archive at the German Dance Archive .
- ^ Wigman archive at the German Dance Archive .
- ^ Sacharoff archive at the German Dance Archive .
- ^ Massine archive at the German Dance Archive .
- ↑ Reklamemarken ( Memento of the original of September 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at the German Dance Archive.
- ↑ Buoy archive ( Memento of the original from August 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at the German Dance Archive.
- ↑ Dance video catalog ( Memento of the original from December 10, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. of the German Dance Archive Cologne.
- ↑ Puccinelli archive ( Memento of the original from August 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at the German Dance Archive.
- ↑ Publications ( Memento of the original from June 15, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at the German Dance Archive.
