Description of the Literary Colloquium Berlin Archive (LCB) in the Sulzbach-Rosenberg Literary Archive

• Applicant: Michael Peter Hehl
• Subject Area: General and Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies ; German Literary and Cultural Studies (Modern German Literature)
• Term: since 2022
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 497552221

The archive of the Literary Colloquium Berlin (LCB) is an outstanding collection of the institutional history of modern German literature. Founded in 1963 in West-Berlin by Walter Höllerer, and in its first years funded by the US-American Ford Foundation, the LCB marks a specific intersection of both poetological discourse sand international cultural policy: literary funding programs, translation funding, workshops on the poetics of prose, stage plays, poetry and film – all this took, and still takes place in the LCB in a context that provides multiple connections to other literary and media institutions (such as publishing houses, magazines, public broadcasting etc.), as well as to national and international cultural policy (Goethe-Institutes, DAAD etc.). Aim of the project is a precise description and cataloguing of all resources in the collection with due regard to international archival standards and authority control in the Kalliope-catalogue, as well as a compact and neatly arranged presentation of the description on the website of the Sulzbach-Rosenberg Literary Archive. The description process is based upon the RNAB-Standard developed by the Berlin State Library, the Austrian National Library and the Swiss National Library which regards both international standards like RDA, and authority control vocabularies like the Integrated Authority File (GND). Special attention is directed towards the cross-linkage between records of different types of media and genres (such as audio recordings, event schedules, manuscripts, photos or correspondence) which can be represented as relations within the EAD-profile of the Kalliope-catalogue using controlled vocabulary from the Integrated Authority File (GND).

• DFG Programme: Cataloguing and Digitisation (Scientific Library Services and Information Systems)
• Participating Institution: Universität Regensburg; Universitätsbibliothek
• Co-Investigator: Privatdozent Dr. Heribert Tommek