Heinrich Mann DIGITAL

• Applicant: Werner Heegewaldt, since 9/2020
• Subject Area: German Literary and Cultural Studies (Modern German Literature)
• Term: from 2020 to 2022
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 443243934

Anyone who wants to study the manuscripts of Heinrich Mann has to travel to Berlin and Frankfurt, Los Angeles and Moscow, Zurich and Marbach, Prague and Munich. This dispersion is no coincidence, but rather a consequence of the fractures and dislocations of the 20th century. For the first time, a shared platform will make the virtual reunification possible: In 2021, Heinrich Mann's oeuvre will be made available to research and the public in digitized form through the databases and digital presentation forms of the participating institutions.Over the next three years, 30,000 scans will be taken at the Akademie der Künste Archives: of manuscripts, pre-press, and notebooks. By revealing the "jigsaw puzzle" of the archive holdings, it will become a digital model far beyond Heinrich Mann. It will demonstrate for the first time how a transnational approach can be used to elevate scattered literary holdings from the 20th century to a new level of visibility, structured according to chronology, provenances, holdings, and locations. This digital cooperation project provides corresponding impetus for edition philology, literary history, and provenance research.Heinrich Mann DIGITAL is a cooperative project by the Literature Archives of the Akademie der Künste, Berlin, with the Heinrich Mann Society, the University of Southern California, Feuchtwanger Memorial Library, the German Literature Archive Marbach, ETH Zurich, the Heinrich-und-Thomas-Mann-Zentrum Lübeck, and the Czech Literary Archive in Prague, among others, in agreement with the current edition projects and the publishers S. Fischer and Aisthesis.

• DFG Programme: Cataloguing and Digitisation (Scientific Library Services and Information Systems)
• Ehemaliger Antragsteller: Professor Dr. Marcel Lepper, until 9/2020