solution: “in Thelkow begraben, das seine Heimat war und wo er Jahrzehnte hindurch in großem Segen gewirkt hatte. Hier sollte er im Jahre 1883 seine goldene Hochzeit, im Jahre 1886 sein 50jähriges Dienstjubiläum feiern dürfen. 1887 war er pensioniert worden und hatte seinen Wohnsitz nach Senzlin verlegt.”
Reading older European records requires familiarity with Gothic script. The Gothic handwriting prevailed in Germany until 1941. Today we are out of practice deciphering hand written letters and documents from the 19th and the early 20th century. Our holiday-riddle therefore should be an exercise to jog your memory and reading skills. The objective is to transliterate the text between the red marks. Please, send your transliteration to buero@archivauskunft.de* until 06.01.2008. The Winners will be drawn by lot and contacted via email.
1. prize: calligraphy-kit with dip pen, three different nibs, ink from elder berries and a booklet with examples of alphabets
2. prize: Khonnor: Handwriting (Audio-CD, 2005), the debut album of the 17 year-old low-tech-E-musician Connor Kirby-Long
*it is not necessary to specify your name and address. If you are among the winners, we will get back to you in January asking, where to send the prize.
The collection mapping project Handbuch der historischen Buchbestände in Deutschland, Österreich und Europa (Fabian 1992, 1997) is now available on b2i, a research portal for the subjects of library, book and information sciences. The handbook provides information about libraries and collections mainly in Germany and Austria , furthermore in the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Croatia, Slovenia, Italy, Great Britain und Ireland. It is planned to extend the coverage to Switzerland and South Tyrol.
“Free to All” - this inscription above the main entrance of the Boston Public Library accords with the intention of the citizen, ground developer, manager and collector Norman B. Leventhal. He gifted his precious collection of historical maps to the Boston Public Library and initiated projects for their preservation, indexing and presenting them to the public. 200.000 maps and 5.000 atlases are gradually digitized and made available in an on-line database with different access points. Users can search for names of places and for bibliographic information as author, publisher and year of release . The maps themselves can be navigated individually with comfortable on-line tools. Training aids, on-line exhibitions and a “Map of the Month” complete this on-line resource.
Heritage Open Days are an annual celebration of architecture and culture that allows visitors free access to historical landmarks that are usually not open to the public. It also includes tours, events and activities related to architecture and culture.
This year’s European Heritage Day in Germany (Tag des offenen Denkmals) is themed Places of contemplation and prayer- historical religious buildings.
The Berlin Monuments Day puts an additional focus on modern architecture and especially on Berlin Postwar architecture as a testimony of the division of the city and the competition between the political systems in the East and West.
The Bauhaus Archive shows the Exhibiton: Berlin Settlements from the 1920s - UNESCO World Heritage Nominations and organizes guided tours.
National Open Monuments Day Germany: September 09 2007 Berlin Monuments Day: September 08/09 2007
Wikisource like Wikipedia is an on-line project of the Wikimedia Foundation which is based on the MediaWiki-Software. Texts, pictures, audio recordings stored and jointly edited there are free of copyright, either because this has expired or because the text has been released under a free license. Wikisource is splitted up into language domains, e.g. English, German, French, Hebrew (ויקיטקסט), Polish (Wikiźródła) and Russian (Викитека).
The Illustration above depicting medieval Rome is from the Nuremberg Chronicle, a current project of German Wikisource.
The 50th anniversary of the International Building Exhibition in 1957 is accompanied by plenty of public lectures, films, exhibitions and book releases. Our tip for the month of June should lead you off the beaten tourists tracks to discover modern architecture in its historical setting.
- until July, 31
The Exhibition Development of the Hansaviertel and Hansaviertel Quarter Today, Historical Photographs of the Old Hansaviertel and the New Construction Site in the subway station Hansaplatz
- until June, 30
Hansa-Library Architecture and People : Modernism from Inside. A presentation of Jovis Publishing House on Mawa-Design Resopal, Bauhaus Dessau
- until July, 15
“The City of Tomorrow“ An Archaeological Approach to Hansaviertel Berlin at the Academy of Arts, Hanseatenweg in Berlin with an exhibition, films and a conference. A book will be published in autumn 2007.
- until October, 31
An exhibition about the Old Hansaviertel from 1877 bis 1944 at Kaiser-Friedrich-Memorial-Church, Händelallee 20
- July, 8
An exhibition about the New Hansaviertel Seen Through the Eyes of Artists of the 50ies and 60ies at St. Ansgar-Church, Hansaplatz, daily from noon until 4 pm
The Deutsches Wörterbuch (”German dictionary”) is still considered the standard reference for German etymology. It was started by the Grimm Brothers in 1838 and the first major step in creating a standardized German language since Martin Luther’s translation of the Bible to German.
When the project finally was finished in 1961, the dictionary contains 32 volumes and includes about 350,000 main entries.
Editions: Grimm, Jacob / Grimm, Wilhelm: Deutsches Wörterbuch
original: Hirzel, ISBN 978-3-7401-0000-1, 4990 €
paperback reprint: dtv, ISBN 978-3-423-59045-7, 499 €
CD-ROM: Zweitausendeins, ISBN 978-3-86150-639-3, 49,90 €
A major collection of about 25,000 slides owned by the Insitute for the History of Arts at the University of Halle is being digitized and published in a picture database.
The photographs were taken for teaching purpose between the years 1895 and 1952. They show architecture and art objects from all over the world, that today in many cases do not exist any more.
Access points for the database are names of the artists, type/category of art and place names or names of landscapes. Unfortunately there are neither informations
how to use images in teaching and publication.
Current results in scientific research are particularly published and discussed in journals and anthologies.
Online catalogs of libraries very often do not contain bibliographical references to articles. The latter can be found in databases related to specific fields of research.
These databases mostly are not available online, but Litdok provided by the Herder-Institut Marburg is. Litdok contains bibliographical references to articles on the history of East Central Europe. A user interface
with the possibility to choose between ten languages and multilingual subject headings offer a comfortable search for literature in different languages.
