With over 5 million articles, the press clippings archive documents the history, politics and economy of East (Central) Europe around 1900 until today. These articles are supplemented by around 600,000 photographs on microfiche. For each country (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, northern East Prussia, Poland, Slovakia, Soviet Union/Russia, Czechoslovakia, Czech Republic, and others), the collection is organized according to people (around 1.5 million clippings) and places (around 0.5 million clippings). A special collection includes around 90,000 documents from the interwar period relating to Poland, the Baltic region, and Czechoslovakia. The material on the war years and the immediate postwar period was supplemented through acquisitions. The press archive of the former GDR institute “Deutsches Institut für Zeitgeschichte/Institut für Internationale Politik und Wirtschaft (German Institute of Contemporary History/Institute for International Politics and Economics), which contained around 300,000 clippings mainly from the period between 1945 and 1991, was transferred to the Herder Institute in 2011 and can be considered a “parallel communist historic record”. It contains, predominantly, articles from the FRG and GDR press, which covered a large geographical area. Articles from East (Central) European newspapers are, in most cases, attached as a kind of press report. There is almost no material in the archive from non-German-language press.
Materials
| ca 5 Millions | Clippings (information artifacts) |
Research online
Due to copyright law, digitized press clippings are accessible only within the Herder Institute and not via Open Access.Descriptions of superordinate collections
Links to external collections
Visit
Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe – Institute of the Leibniz AssociationISIL: DE-2718
Gisonenweg 5-735037 Marburg
Website
Referenced/represented regions
Baltic StatesCzech RepublicCzechoslovakiaEast PrussiaEstoniaGermanyHungaryKaliningradKönigsbergLatviaLithuaniaPolandRomaniaRussiaSilesiaSlovakiaSoviet UnionVoivodeship PoznanWest PrussiaYugoslavia...Topics
BiographyBoundariesCity developmentContemporary historyCultureEastern studiesEconomyEthnicityForced migrationGeographyGeographyHistoryLocal geographyMigrationMusicPeriod between the world warsPolitics historyPopular cultureReligionSettlement developmentSocial historyWorld War, 1914-1918World War, 1939-1945...Referenced/represented persons/bodies
Geede, Ruth + Gehrmann, Karl-Heinz + ...Referenced/represented time period
since 1914 until today (focus 1950-1999)Classification
BiographyChurch historyCivil societyCultureEconomyEducation, Educational and University HistoryEuropean integration / History of integrationHistory of Humanities and Ideas / Intellectual historyHistory of Religion and Religious StudiesIndustrial history, trade and commerceInternational RelationsLegal history and jurisprudenceParties, associations and social movementsPoliticsPopulation history and migration historyRegional and country historyRegions / Regionalization / RegionalismSocialSocial history and social sciencesUrban and metropolitan history...Languages
CzechEnglishEstonianGermanLatvianLithuanianPolishRussianSlavic LanguagesSlovak...During the period from 1952 to 1999, an appraisal was carried out in a separate department of the Herder Institute in order to evaluate a selection of the newspapers the Institute subscribed to (including national daily and weekly newspapers from across the German-speaking countries). This was done using a detailed classification system (object archive, place archive, person archive) and with the aid of around 450 keywords. The work of the press archive was discontinued in 1999 and its holdings were incorporated into the Herder Institute library. Prior to 1975, the in-house press clippings archive was supplemented with a special collection on the interwar period, which was created at the Hamburgisches Welt-Wirtschafts-Archiv (Hamburg Institute of International Economics) in Kiel and Hamburg. In 2011, the press clippings collection of the GDR’s German Institute of Contemporary History (which became the Institute for International Politics and Economics in 1971) was added to the archive.
Creation/Production
| Time Event: | ca. 1900 until today |
Aggregation/Collecting
| Time Event: | 1952 until today |
| Place/Area: | Marburg |
| Creator of the collection: | Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe, Library + |
Provenance
| Time Event: | 1945-1991 |
| Place/Area: | Berlin |
| Creator of the collection: | Institute of International Politics and Economy of the GDR, Berlin (East) + |
| Creator of the collection: | Deutsches Institut für Zeitgeschichte (DIZ), Berlin (Ost) + |
Provenance
| Time Event: | ca 1900 until ca. 1975 |
| Place/Area: | Hamburg |
| Creator of the collection: | Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWI), Hamburg + |
Acquisition/Transfer of Custody to Herder Institute: Gift
| Time Event: | probably before 1975 |
| Lessor of the collection: | Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWI), Hamburg + |
| Collection recipient: | Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe, Library + |
Acquisition/Transfer of Custody to Herder Institute: Gift
| Time Event: | 2011 |
| Place/Area: | Marburg |
| Lessor of the collection: | Institute of International Politics and Economy of the GDR, Berlin (East) + |
| Lessor of the collection: | Deutsches Institut für Zeitgeschichte (DIZ), Berlin (Ost) + |
| Collection recipient: | Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe, Library + |
Literature
KARL VON DELHAES (Hrsg.): Biographische Materialien aus der Presse Ostmitteleuropas nach 1945 : Kurzbeschreibung ausgewählter Bestände des Pressearchivs im Herder-Institut, Marburg 2008. [PPN: 056501196]
OPAC
HeBIS Discovery System (HDS)
Präsentationen/Vorträge
Jan Lipinsky: “German-language Newspaper Collections from Eastern Europe – ongoing digitalization project”, a workshop of the Bundesinstitut für Kultur und Geschichte der Deutschen im östlichen Europa (Federal Institute for Culture and History of Germans in East Europe), Oldenburg, Sep 29, 2010 Website
Jan Lipinsky: “East Central Europe in the Daily Press – can the Marburg clippings archive also be a digital resource in the future?”, 43rd Scientific Work and Advanced Training Conference of the ABDOS e.V., Hannover, May 6, 2014 Website
Jan Lipinsky: “The Benefits of an Accessible Online Press Clippings Archive – experiences gained from the initial stages of digitalization”, at the workshop "Intelligente Inhaltserfassung von Zeitungsartikeln" (Intelligent Content Gathering from Newspaper Articles), Berlin, May 26, 2014
Jan Lipinsky: “The Newspaper Clippings Collection – choosing digital scrolling over handling disintegrating paper”, 103rd German Librarians’ Day, Bremen, Jun 5, 2014 Website
Links
Blog post: Poland in Focus: New Material from the Newspaper Archive Website
| ID: | DE-2718/HI000025 |
| Record Type: | Group/Holding |
| List title: | Holdings of the Press Clippings Archive |
| Title: | Press Clippings Archive of the Press Collection of the Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe |
| Short Title: | Holdings of the Press Clippings Archive |
| Repository Name: | Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe, Library [ISIL: DE-Mb50] + |
| Source/Rights: | Herder Institute for Historical Research on East Central Europe – Institute of the Leibniz Association [ISIL: DE-2718] + |
| Image: | The Restoration of the Kingdom of Poland at the End of the First World War: Press Coverage in Berlin and Munich, 5.11.1916/6.11.1916, Press Clippings Collection, Signature: P 155 (1915–1921), Photo: Claudia Junghänel, 2011, Rights of use: Herder Institute, Marburg |
| Author: | Lipinsky, Jan |
| Reviser/Editor: | Schiebl, Beate |
| Export date: | 2019-03-05 |
