Heinrich Böll Archive

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The Heinrich Böll Archive , based in Cologne, is a documentation and information center on the life and work of Heinrich Böll . The archive works together with the Historical Archive of the City of Cologne , the Archive of Heinrich Böll's Heirs and the Heinrich Böll Foundation . It collects and catalogs all of Heinrich Böll's works as well as secondary literature about him.

The archive's office on Antwerpener Strasse

history

The Heinrich Böll Archive was set up in 1979 on the basis of an agreement between the City of Cologne and Heinrich Böll. His assistant, his nephew Viktor Böll , became the first director of the archive. Despite his severe cancer, he was still preparing to move the archive from Antwerpener Straße 19–29 to the central library building on Neumarkt. After Viktor Böll's death on January 31, 2009, Dr. Gabriele Ewenz, previously head of the Adorno archive, is his successor.

Much of the biographical material from the Cologne City Archive was still in the Heinrich Böll Archive when it collapsed on March 3, 2009, and thus escaped destruction.

Heinrich Böll's work edition

One of the main tasks of the archive was to collaborate in the editing of the critical, commented edition of Heinrich Böll's works, which was published between 2002 and 2010 by the Kiepenheuer & Witsch publishing house . The Cologne edition comprises 27 volumes.

Events and exhibitions

The archive organizes exhibitions on the life and work of Heinrich Böll, including a poster exhibition that can be ordered from the archive. It also offers introductions to the life and work of Nobel Prize winner Böll, especially for schoolchildren, but also for other groups, and organizes city tours in Cologne in the footsteps of Heinrich Böll.

Publications

  • Heinrich Boell. ... bound to time and contemporaneity. 70th birthday on December 21, 1987. City of Cologne, Cologne 1988
  • Heinrich Böll and his publishing house Kiepenheuer & Witsch. The German autumn. Heinrich Böll and the terrorism discussion of the 1970s. Two exhibitions. City of Cologne, Cologne 1992

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Coordinates: 50 ° 56 '24.6 "  N , 6 ° 56' 9.6"  E