Westphalian literature archive

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Westphalian literature archive

Entrance area of ​​the LWL archive office / Westphalian literature archive
Entrance area of ​​the LWL archive office / Westphalian literature archive
Archive type Cultural archive
Coordinates 51 ° 58 '35.3 "  N , 7 ° 36' 59.3"  E Coordinates: 51 ° 58 '35.3 "  N , 7 ° 36' 59.3"  E
place Muenster
Visitor address Jahnstrasse 26
founding 2001
ISIL DE-Mue305
Website www.lwl-archivamt.de

The Westphalian Literature Archive (WLA) is an institution of the Regional Association of Westphalia-Lippe (LWL) for literary legacies and bequests in Westphalia and Lippe and an information point with competent advice on all questions relating to the subject of "literary legacies in Westphalia".

founding

With the establishment of the WLA in September 2001, the literary estate maintenance in Westphalia-Lippe, which had structural deficits for a long time, should be improved and promoted. The shortcomings concerned:

  • lack of responsibility for inheritance acquisition (competition or random principle)
  • missing criteria in the assessment of the archival worthiness of the estate
  • lack of advice from the authors or the heirs
  • lack of Germanic competence of the archives
  • lack of resources for estate development

The literature commission for Westphalia , which has existed since 1998, has been considering , in close cooperation with the cultural maintenance department of the regional association and the LWL archives office for Westphalia , for better coordination and responsibility for literary estates in Westphalia. The committees formulated the framework for the establishment of the Westphalian Literature Archive. A corresponding parliamentary proposal was approved in spring 2001 by the culture committee and the landscape assembly.

With the symbolic handover of the estate of the Westphalian poet Ernst Meister (1911–1979) on the occasion of his 90th birthday on September 3, 2001, the Westphalian Literature Archive was presented to the public.

Organization and task

Magazine inventory of the LWL archive office / Westphalian literature archive

In interdisciplinary cooperation, the WLA is carried out jointly by two departments of the LWL, the LWL Archive Office for Westphalia and the Literature Commission for Westphalia, with the aim of ensuring the highest possible quality standard in the care of literary estates.

The LWL archives office for Westphalia brings in the archiving knowledge and the experience gained from the regional archive maintenance. The literature commission for Westphalia has knowledge of the Westphalian literary landscape and maintains personal contacts with authors and their estates.

The offers in detail:

  • Advice to writers "during their lifetime" in dealing with their own work tradition
  • Professional transfer of legacies and bequests to the Westphalian Literature Archive, indexing and provision for use
  • Mediation of qualified professional support, for example in the local municipal archive, if the estate is to remain on site due to close regional connections

Stocks

The Westphalian Literature Archive accepts documents from writers with a regional reference. You either come from Westphalia-Lippe or have worked here for a long time. Traditions from institutions such as literary societies, associations or publishers are also adopted.

Literary assets and bequests contain documents that are closely related to the work and the writer personality; The materials include, in accordance with the rules for cataloging personal papers and autographs (RNA), above all

  • Work manuscripts
  • Correspondence
  • Life documents
  • Collections of the work and biography

Development of stocks

Storage room of the LWL archive office / Westphalian literature archive

A selection of stocks

Research opportunities

The holdings of the WLA and online finding aids can be researched in the Archive in North Rhine-Westphalia portal, as well as in the central database of papers of the Federal Archives and in the Kalliope union catalog , the evidence of papers and autographs by the Berlin State Library .

Since the WLA sees itself as an information point for questions about the estate situation in Westphalia, a portal was created in 2005 in cooperation with the NRW Literature Council with evidence of over 600 literary traditions in more than 80 archives in Westphalia. The estate database is logistically networked with the online version of the "Westphalian Author's Lexicon" , which is an important step towards a comprehensive cadastre of Westphalian writers' bequests.

All portals offer interested users free research options.

use

The holdings of the Westphalian Literature Archive are used in the LWL Archive Office for Westphalia. Use is free of charge.

Publications

The publication series “ Aufgeblättert ... Discoveries in the Westphalian Literature Archive” has been published on behalf of the LWL Literature Commission for Westphalia in conjunction with the LWL Archive Office since 2012 ; it presents insights into the holdings of the Westphalian Literature Archive.

So far:

Author / s title ISBN
Jochen Grywatsch Word structure, meaning, creation of form. The hidden literature of Werner Warsinsky 978-3-89528-901-9
Walter Gödden , Michael Kienecker , Christoph Knüppel World and me. New Peter Hille finds 978-3-8498-1095-5
Walter Gödden Bibliophile, committed, unique. Big literature in small publishers 978-3-8498-1125-9

literature

  • Eleonore Sent: 10 years of the Westphalian Literature Archive: Conference “Between literary businesses and research - Regional literary archives today” . In: Archive maintenance in Westphalia-Lippe . No. 76 , 2012, ISSN  0171-4058 , p. 12–13 ( online [PDF]).
  • Event on the occasion of the opening of the Westphalian Literature Archive in the Westphalian Archives Office and handover of the Ernst Meister estate on 2/3 September 2001 . In: Archive maintenance in Westphalia-Lippe . No. 56 , 2002, ISSN  0171-4058 , p. 2–24 ( online [PDF]).
  • Westphalian Literature Archive - a new archive for Westphalia-Lippe . In: Archive maintenance in Westphalia-Lippe . No. 55 , 2001, ISSN  0171-4058 , p. 42–43 ( online [PDF]).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Template 11/0443. In: Meeting service for citizens. Landschaftsverband Westfalen-Lippe, accessed on November 2, 2016 : "The landscape committee decides to set up a" Westphalian literature archive in the Westphalian archive office "based on this template."
  2. ↑ Eleonore Sent: 10 Years of the Westphalian Literature Archive: Conference “Between Literature Businesses and Research - Regional Literature Archives Today” . In: Marcus Stumpf, Wolfgang Bockhorst (Hrsg.): Archive maintenance for Westphalia . tape 2012 , no. 76 , 2012, ISSN  0171-4058 , p. 13–19 (64 pp., Lwl.org [PDF; 2.0 MB ; accessed on August 15, 2017]).
  3. ↑ Nina Gawe, Friederike Krippner (Ed.): 1998–2008. LWL literature commission for Westphalia. A documentation . 2008, Westphalian Literature Archive, p. 88 , col. 1 ( lwl.org [PDF; 9.5 MB ]): "While the Westphalian Archives Office contributes its specialist archiving knowledge and its experience from decades of work in the field of regional archive maintenance, the Literature Commission contributes its knowledge of Westphalian literary history and its contacts to authors and authors' associations."
  4. ↑ Homepage of the literature commission for Westphalia. Accessed on May 13, 2016
  5. ↑ Portal Archive in NRW Retrieved on May 13, 2016