International Working Group on Printing and Media History

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The Printing History Working Group (IAD) was founded in 1983 by Claus Walther Gerhardt . In 2003 it was renamed the International Working Group on Printing and Media History (IADM) and entered the register of associations in Leipzig. The office is located in the German Newspaper Museum in Wadgassen in Saarland . Harry Neß , Offenbach , has been the CEO since 1999 .

Goal setting

The IADM promotes research into printing and media history. He examines and describes the technical artifacts for the reproduction of text and images in their effects as a cause and consequence of social movements. The research results should shed light on the understanding of current and future working conditions, technical developments and civilization processes. For this purpose, findings from books, technology, history and social sciences are used, among other things.

The working group brings together those interested in history from libraries and professional practice, artists and graphic designers, experts from research institutes from various branches of science, custodians of technical collections in museums and private collectors. His main concerns are to reach the specialist public with conferences and publications and to form a network on questions of museum didactics, applied knowledge of machines and tools, as well as print and media history research.

So far, joint projects have been carried out with the Georg-Agricola-Gesellschaft eV (annual conference Heidelberg 1997), the musicology department at the Institute for Art History and Musicology at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and the Offenbach House of City History (Offenbach Conference 2015), with the International Senefelder -Stiftung eV , Offenbach (book project history of lithography and lithography technology 2011) and the Association of European Printing Museums eV (annual conference Valkenswaard / Netherlands 2016).

Publications

Journal of Printing History

Between 1988 and 1993, five editions of the then independent publication appeared, published and produced by Eckehart Schumacher-Gebler. The Journal für Druckgeschichte has been published in the specialist magazine Deutscher Drucker since 1995, four times a year since 1997 and three times a year since 2012. The editor and designer in charge has been Silvia Werfel MA since 2000

Contributions to the history of printing

Five volumes appeared between 2001 and 2008, including conference documentation with lectures and research reports as well as publications on special occasions:

  • Volume 1 (2001) for the annual conference in Grevenmacher / Luxembourg: The history of culture and technology in playing card production
  • Volume 2 (2003) for the annual conference in Stuttgart: Printing inks between alchemy and high-tech.
  • Volume 3 (2007) for the annual conference in Leipzig: The mechanical lead type - aspects of technological, social and economic history.
  • Volume 4 (2006) Books, Printing History. Small writings 3 by Claus W. Gerhardt. For his 80th birthday.
  • Volume 5 (2008) History of Printing 2.0. - Festschrift 25 Years of the International Working Group on Printing and Media History.
  • In cooperation with the International Senefelder Foundation (2011): History of lithography and stone printing technology 1971 to 2011: 40 years of the International Sendefelder Foundation in Offenbach

Black art web archive. EUROPA-GUIDE on the history of printing and paper

The database was created as part of a project in the German Newspaper Museum, Wadgassen. It contains addresses and links to more than 150 European museums, historical collections and workshops from 19 nations.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Printing history 2.0. Review - insight - outlook. Festschrift 25 Years of the International Working Group on Printing and Media History. Edited by Harry Neß and Roger Münch 2008 (Contributions to the history of printing, Vol. 5)