The annual conference took place from 22 to 24 June 2022 at the German Exile Archive 1933–1945 at the German National Library in Frankfurt am Main.

“KOOP-LITERA Deutschland” is part of “KOOP-LITERA international”, a network of German, Luxembourgian, Austrian and Swiss institutions which acquire, catalogue and preserve estates and autographs and make them available for public use. The network’s objectives are to professionalise the working environment by coordinating and strengthening cooperation and synchronisation both nationally and internationally. The 9th symposium of German literary archives and related institutions focused on the topics of digitisation and cooperative virtual projects. It also included presentations by the Frankfurt-based institutions involved.

Programme

Wednesday, 22 June 2022

14:00 – 14:30

• Welcome speech: Ute Schwens, Director of the German National Library in Frankfurt am Main
• Welcome speech: Dr. Sylvia Asmus, Head of the German Exile Archive 1933–1945
• Greetings: Dr. Ralf Breslau, Berlin State Library – Prussian Cultural Heritage
• Introduction: Dr. Jörn Hasenclever, German Exile Archive 1933-1945

14:30 – 17:30

Section 1: Digitisation and cooperation

Moderation: Thomas Stern, Saxon State and University Library Dresden

• Access to Archivportal-D – perspectives for the development of a national reference system for archival material (Oliver Götze, Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek / Archive Competence Centre)
• Digital collaborative working at the Marbach Weimar Wolfenbüttel Research Association (Dr. Katharina Günther und Christiane Müller, Marbach Weimar Wolfenbüttel Research Association)

Coffe break from 16:00 – 16:30

• Heinrich Mann digital - Challenges and opportunities of an international cooperation project (Dr. Gabriele Radecke und Volkmar Ernst, Academy of Arts)
• The collections of the Historical Museum Frankfurt (Dr. Dorothee Linnemann, Historical Museum Frankfurt)

18:00

• Active participation in Beta Test of Kurt S. Maier’s eyewitness account and presentation of the project “Learning from the Past for the Present – Interactive 3D Interviews with

19:00

Communal dinner

Thursday, 23 June 2022

09:00

• “It is so sad that we are scattered to the 4 winds.” Virtual merging of Ulrich Becher’s two partial estates (Dr. Moritz Wagner, Swiss Literary Archives and Dr. Jörn Hasenclever, German Exile Archive 1933–1945)

Coffe break from 10:00 – 10:30

10:30 – 12:30

Section 2: Frankfurt’s archives introduce themselves

Moderation: Dr. Sylvia Asmus, German Exile Archive 1933–1945

• The archive at the Jewish Museum in Frankfurt (Dr. Franziska Krah, Jewish Museum Frankfurt)
• Since 1436: The Institute for the History of Frankfurt and its collections (Dr. Kristina Odenweller, Institute for the History of Frankfurt)
• “L” for literature. A department of Frankfurt’s university archive (Dr. Wolfgang Schopf, Frankfurt university archive)
• Exhibiting, editing, online publishing – the Freies Deutsches Hochstift (Dr. Konrad Heumann, Freies Deutsches Hochstift)

12:30 bis 14:00

Lunch

14:00 – 17:00

• Workshop: SONAR – Metadata and networks (Gerhard Müller, Berlin State Library – Prussian Cultural Heritage)

Coffe break from 15:30 – 16:00

17:00 – 18:00

• Guided tours through the permanent exhibition of the German Exile Archive 1933-1945 "Exile. Experience and Testimony”
• Guided tour through the German Exile Archive 1933-1945
• Active participation in Beta Test of Kurt S. Maier’s eyewitness account and presentation of the project “Learning from the Past for the Present – Interactive 3D Interviews with Eyewitnesses of the Historical Exile”

19:00 – 20:30

• Public evening event “Reich-Ranicki under fire. A polemic quartet discusses his work” as part of the exhibition “Marcel Reich-Ranicki. One life, many roles“. With Elke Heidenreich, Hubert Spiegel, Volker Weidermann, Uwe Wittstock.

Friday, 24 June 2022

9:00 – 10:45

Section 3: News from the German National Library

Moderation: Dr. Jörn Hasenclever, German Exile Archive 1933-1945

• News from the Office for Library Standards (AfS) (Renate Behrens, German National Library)
• GND Explorer – making the data cooperation network visible (Jürgen Kett, German National Library)

Coffe break from 10:45 – 11:15

11:15 – 12:00

• KOOP-LITERA – Reports / closing discussion (Dr. Ralf Breslau, Berlin State Library – Prussian Cultural Heritage)

12:00 -13.00

• Guided tours through the permanent exhibition of the German Exile Archive 1933-1945 "Exile. Experience and Testimony”
• Guided tour through the temporary exhibition of the German Exile Archive 1933-1945 "Marcel Reich-Ranicki. One life, many roles“.

13:00

End of the event