in 2009 as part of the ministry’s area studies line of funding. In the second phase of funding (May 1, 2014 – April 30, 2016), the network was expanded to meet goals defined in the research program “Inequality
that were supported by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation, DFG). Subproject 1 covered the years 1930-1945 and Subproject 2 the catalogs from the years 1901-1929. The catalogs come
descriptions in the catalogues raisonné and auction catalogues of 1934, it must have contained over 1,000 individual works of art. For this reason, MARI’s most important tasks are to reconstruct the inventory
instructions described in detail the order in which the inventory of the Louvre was to be distributed: “1. The art objects whose future use the Führer has reserved the right to decide, 2. The art objects that [...] or Leningrad for storage. As a gesture to its socialist “brothers,” the…
scholars fleeing the war. The scholarships are initially provided for up to three months and offer up to 1,200 euros per month. The application process and requirements have been simplified, but it is still
is unusual for the Geheimes Staatsarchiv. Altogether, they were "certainly 40 centimeters high and 1.5 meters wide." Adlung had already spent several months collating the estate of Prince Albert of Prussia
has its own large digitization center. Is there ever a break in the work? Hardly ever. We scan around 1.7 million pages a year with special, very different devices in a two-shift system. That is remarkable
academics were compelled to leave Austria’s universities and non-university research institutions (group 1). They emigrated because antisemitism, androcentrism, and anti-Socialism were dominating their daily
(Berlin State Library), he has the source material at his fingertips. The library’s collection contains 1.2 million maps on paper, plus 250,000 digital maps, tens of thousands of views, atlases, and plans,
On January 1, 2022, architect Claudia Zirra took the reins at the Construction and Engineering department of the SPK. In this interview, she describes her first days on the job and shows us her “first-day