Sound archive of the Humboldt University in Berlin

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The sound archive of the Humboldt University in Berlin (also known as the "Berlin Sound Archive") is a collection of sound documents .

history

The Berlin Sound Archive was founded on April 1st, 1920 on the initiative of the linguist Wilhelm Doegen . The basis of the collection was formed by the records of the “Royal Prussian Phonographic Commission”, which were mainly made between 1915 and 1918 under the direction of Doegen.

“Today the sound archive has an acoustic collection in the form of approx. 7,500 shellac records , as well as phonograph cylinders , tapes , gelatine and aluminum records, which primarily document a multitude of languages ​​and dialects as well as vocal portraits of famous personalities of the German Empire and the Weimar Republic . In addition, there are written and photographic documentation and historical devices for sound recording and reproduction in the sound archive. "

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In 1990 the collection was viewed and restructured by phonetician Dieter Mehnert . Likewise were backup copies made.

After digitization, the collection found its way into the database "Kabinette des Wissens".

The sound archive will be the only collection of the Humboldt University to move to the Humboldt Forum in 2019 .

literature

  • Jochen Hennig: Changing formats. A report on the recent history of voice recordings in the Berlin Sound Archives . In: Reports on the history of science: Organ of the Society for the History of Science eV No. 4 , 2016, ISSN  0170-6233 , ZDB -ID 134475-4 , p. 350-366 , doi : 10.1002 / bewi.201601802 ( wiley.com ).

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The sound archive of the Humboldt University in Berlin. Retrieved January 19, 2017 .