Mainz mini press archive

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The Mainz Minipressen-Archiv (MMPA) has existed in its current form since 1980 and is attached to the Gutenberg Museum . The aim of the MMP archive is to collect literary products from small and very small printing works and publishers, the production of which was difficult to find in public libraries and archives. Either the small editions were not known at all or they were not taken into account as alternative literature.

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The MMPA forms a collection of books (approx. 6000), magazines (approx. 2000 titles in 20,000 issues), press prints (approx. 200), videos (approx. 30), sound carriers (approx. 200), posters (approx. 500), leaflets (approx. 1000), brochures from small publishers (approx. 30,000) and addresses of small publishers (approx. 4,500) from German-speaking countries. The archive gives an impression of the creation and work of mini-presses and also provides information (through discussions, seminars at the Mainz mini-press fair and further literature) on self-publishing your own works or on founding your own publishing house.

Some of the books and magazines exhibited at the mini press fair will then be transferred to the MMPA. The fund of the MMPA was mainly created through these donations. In addition there were u. a. the complete magazine collection of the "U-Archiv" (Hamburg underground archive), a complete edition of the daily TAZ , the literary magazine collection of Günther Emig (editor of the "Directory of German-language literary magazines" VdL), the alternative magazines by Udo Pasterney (publisher of the "Bibliography of Counterculture "), Hadayatullah Hübsch's collection of alternative journals, as well as literary and cultural journals published by small publishers.

For the mini-press fair, the MMPA publishes a catalog of international presses, small and author publishers, which contains over 450 addresses, publisher's ideas and articles on small-scale publishing, book art and writing.

In addition, the MMPA processes the Victor Otto Stomps Prize of the City of Mainz . The archive compiles exhibitions from the holdings of the archive and lenders, which interested institutions can borrow. It currently has the following exhibitions:

  • Retrospective for the mini press fair in Mainz
  • Victor Otto Stomps Prize Winner of the City of Mainz
  • the draftsman and writer Gerhard Seyfried

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