This project will research collections of the Archive of the “Zentralinstitut für Theaterwissenschaft” founded 1943 at the University of Vienna, as ideologically motivated scholarly studies. The goal is to conduct an historical analysis of the generated sources, following a scholarly investigation of the collection inventory. The project will develop the best practice for digitizing the research of a collection’s history with the premise, that analyzing the history of a specific collection defines its structure and the purchase of individual objects in it. This is of great significance for collections that were made during the National Socialism, where provenance issues are especially pertinent. This research work will apply to three representative inventories of the Archive, that were verifiably purchased or established in 1943: the Nazi Picture Archive, the Houben Censorship Archive and the Leuschke Theater Archive. These self-contained collections enable the work to be done in a realistic period of time and the heterogeneity of the material allows a broad-scoped investigation with archival and scholarly historical questions, as well as the necessary digitizing. Amongst others the collections comprise photographs, manuscripts and newspaper clippings, which ensures a representative selection of materials. The in-depth investigation of a collection formed during the Nazi era will contribute to the clarification of complex provenance issues regarding questionable inventories, and will thus form the basis for restitution proceedings. The publication of the research results in the form of papers, a digital exhibit and the metadata in the Phaidra repository. Examining the ideology of the collection and the collecting process will form the basis for the overdue research of the historical provenance of materials that were most likely stolen, such as some of those integrated in the Archive in this case.
Institution: University of Vienna, Department for Theater, Film and Media Studies
Project leader: Birgit Peter
Team: Louise Hartmann, Janina Piech, Sara Tiefenbacher, Klaus Illmayer
Cooperation: Martina Cuba (Theater-, Film- and Media Studies Library/ Vienna University Library), Claudia Feigl (University
Collections Coordinator, Library and Archive Services/University of Vienna)
Nov 2017- Nov 2020
funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF)/ P30545-G24
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