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The Quellmalz Collection is a collection of scientific sound recordings. It comprises around 400 original magnetic tapes with around 140 hours of recording time from 1940 to 1942, which were recorded in South Tyrol on behalf of the so-called Ahnenerbes in order to record the songs and stories of the South Tyrolean population destined to emigrate. Developed as a result of National Socialist politics, the collection is a testimony to the political entanglement of science during the time of National Socialism , beyond the early and in its scope unique audio documents . The collection owes its name to the musicologist Alfred Quellmalz . It represents the world's first major field use of a young sound recording technology. The collection belongs to the University of Regensburg . Between 2006 and 2007, the Austrian Phonogram Archive prepared a complete source-critical transfer and digitization of the original recordings from the collection . As early as 1982 to 1988, the collection for the Folk Music Department at the Institute for Music Education was copied in German and Ladin / Bozen and transferred to DAT tapes, and later also transferred to CD. The work was carried out by Franz Kofler (folk music curator of the Province of South Tyrol 1979–1995).

literature

  • Nussbaumer, Thomas: Alfred Quellmalz and his South Tyrolean field research (1940-1942): a study of musical folklore under National Socialism . Innsbruck, Vienna, Munich: StudienVerlag 2001, ISBN 3-7065-1517-2 .
  • Franz Kofler / Walter Deutsch: Folk music in South Tyrol. Dances and pieces from the tape collection Dr. Alfred Quellmalz 1940 - 42 (series: Corpus Musicae Popularis Austriacae , vol. 10) Böhlau, Vienna Cologne Weimar 1999, 442 pages, book with CD