Sulzbach-Rosenberg literature archive

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Sulzbach-Rosenberg literature archive
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founding 1976
founder Walter Höllerer
Seat Sulzbach-Rosenberg
Chair Heribert Tommek
Website www.literaturarchiv.de

The literature archive Sulzbach-Rosenberg eV is an association in Sulzbach-Rosenberg (Bavaria) and has the functions of a literature archive , literature house and literature museum . It sees itself as an interface between literary culture and literary research. The literature archive has been located in the old district court building in Sulzbach-Rosenberg since 1977.

tasks and goals

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Its main purposes include collecting, archiving and researching German-language literature since 1945. The archive's basic holdings are the editorial correspondence of Akzente magazine from 1954-1970. Other important holdings are the estate of Walter Höllerer, who died in 2003, as well as a collection on Günter Grass , which includes the only surviving early version of his novel The Tin Drum .

Another area of ​​responsibility of the house is the promotion of literary culture. The literature archive regularly organizes literary readings and, in addition to a permanent exhibition on literature after 1945, shows changing special exhibitions on special topics. The intercultural mediation of German-language literature has become a focus of the work , also through the collaboration with the Prague House of Literature for German-Language Authors and the Berlin Literary Colloquium .

history

The literature archive in the building of the old district court in Sulzbach-Rosenberg, September 2009

In the mid-1970s, Walter Höllerer was looking for a way to permanently secure the approximately 35,000 letters of the editorial correspondence of the Akzente magazine, which he kept in his Frankfurt apartment, and to make it accessible for academic research. After he had been awarded the culture prize of his hometown Sulzbach-Rosenberg in 1974, negotiations began on the establishment of a literary institution in the small town in Upper Palatinate that would serve this purpose. In addition to the archival function, the planning also focused on promoting literary life in the Upper Palatinate region from the start . On October 16, 1976, the Sulzbach-Rosenberg Literature Archive was founded as an association and officially opened on November 4, 1977 in the building of the old local court. In order to support the scientific processing of the documents stored in the archive, the involvement of the University of Regensburg was laid down in the statutes. The opening of the house was accompanied by a program of events lasting several days. Guests with readings included Günter Grass , Hans Mayer , Hans Bender , Michael Krüger , Uwe Dick and Ludwig Harig .

In 1991 the basic holdings of the archive were expanded to include Walter Höllerer's estate. Further smaller collections on the history of literature after 1945 have followed since the 1990s.

In 2004 Renate von Mangoldt donated Walter Höllerer's estate to the Sulzbach-Rosenberg Literature Archive, which has been scientifically researched since 2007.

Chairpersons of the Sulzbach-Rosenberg Literature Archive were:

The acting first chairman has been the literary scholar Heribert Tommek since 2014 .

Publications

  • Baumann-Eisenack, Barbara: Walter Höllerer: To his poems and his poetry anthology Transit. Sulzbach-Rosenberg 2002 (= letters and texts, vol. 1).
  • Bender, Hans and Höllerer, Walter: Contours and Accents of the Literature Industry. Correspondence 1953-1954. Edited by Ralf Gnosa and Michael Peter Hehl. With a foreword by Michael Krüger. Sulzbach-Rosenberg 2009.
  • Gotzmann, Werner (Ed.): Walter Höllerers Weltei-Erkundungen. Willows 1987.
  • Preuss, Patricia: Ingeborg Bachmann. On her essays, poems and letters to the Akzente editor Walter Höllerer. Sulzbach-Rosenberg 2002 (= letters and texts, vol. 2).

See also

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Individual evidence

  1. See the heading "About the House" on the website of the literature archive
  2. Cf. Böttiger, Helmut: Elefantenrunden. Walter Höllerer and the invention of the literary business. Berlin 2005, p. 223 ff.
  3. Cf. Höllerer, Walter: Here where the world began. Sulzbach-Rosenberg, meeting point for authors, house of letters, pictures and stories. In: Contemporary literature in the Sulzbach-Rosenberg literature archive. Book accompanying the exhibition and archive holdings. Edited by Sulzbach-Rosenberg literature archive. Sulzbach-Rosenberg 1996, pp. 9-24
  4. See Heimbucher, Oswald (Red.): Five Years of the Sulzbach-Rosenberg Literature Archive 1977-1982. Sulzbach-Rosenberg 1982, p. 7 f.
  5. See ibid. and Höllerer 1996, p. 12.
  6. See the "Stocks" section on the literature archive website

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