Theatre Collections and Museums in Germany 1

Theatre Collections in Germany*

Nationalarchiv der Richard Wagner Stiftung e.V. BAYREUTH https://www.wagnermuseum.de/nationalarchiv/informationen_16.html @ [email protected] ⇒ photos, press clippings, Richard Wagner’s papers, engravings, etc. related to Richard Wagner

Archiv der Universität der Künste BERLIN http://www.udk-berlin.de/sites/universitaetsarchiv/content/index_ger.html @ [email protected] ⇒ more than 100,000 engravings, thousands of press clippings, papers

Theaterhistorisches Archiv, FU BERLIN http://www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/we07/institut/sammlungen @ [email protected] ⇒ library, 10,000 playbills/ programmes, 15,000 stage portraits/ photographs

Theatre Collections and Museums in Germany 2

Heiner Müller Archiv / Transitraum BERLIN https://www.literatur.hu-berlin.de/ort @ [email protected] ⇒ Heiner Müller’s papers, photos, library

Theatergeschichtliche Sammlung Kurt Dörnemann BOCHUM http://www.archiv.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/ @ [email protected] ⇒ 5,000 engravings, 300 stage designs and costume designs

Theatermuseum Landeshauptstadt DÜSSELDORF http://www.duesseldorf.de/theatermuseum/ @ [email protected] ⇒ ca. 250,000 photographs, 1,500 images and sound recordings, 350,000 press clippings, 12,500 text books

Theatre Collections and Museums in Germany 3

Theatermuseum HANNOVER http://www.staatstheater-hannover.de/schauspiel/index.php?m=104&f=07_seiten&ID_Seite=40 @ [email protected] ⇒ playbills/ programmes, stage photos, reviews, stage designs, figurines

Theaterwissenschaftliche Sammlung COLOGNE http://tws.phil-fak.uni-koeln.de/ @ [email protected] ⇒ library, engravings, drawings, photography, stage design, costume design, circus

Tanzarchiv COLOGNE http://www.sk-kultur.de/tanz/ @ [email protected] ⇒ ca. 155,000 photographs, more than 117,000 original negatives and slides, 650,000 press clippings, 3,000 sound recordings

Theatre Collections and Museums in Germany 4

Deutsches Kabarettarchiv MAINZ http://www.kabarettarchiv.de/ @ [email protected] ⇒ library, film library, audio recordings, engravings, poster collection, photos, manuscripts, text books, programmes, etc.

Deutsches Theatermuseum MUNICH http://www.deutschestheatermuseum.de/ @ [email protected] ⇒ 250,000 engravings, 50,000 autographs, 4.3 mio photographs

Orff-Zentrum MUNICH http://www.orff-zentrum.de/dokumentation_archivbestand.asp @ [email protected] ⇒ papers of Carl Orff, autographs, photographs, press clippings

*) list compiled by Nic Leonhardt, LMU, Theatre Studies Munich, with the help of Lion Piehl, January 2015. Contact n.leonhardt [ at ] lmu.de for comments and corrections, please.