Special Collections and Bequests at the German Music Archive

• Andersen, Lale
• Berswordt, Eberhard von
• Eight-Track-Tapes (8-Track-Bänder)
• Fischer, Helmut
• Hutter, Franz
• Piano rolls
• Leimbach, Berthold
• Mager, Christine
• Mann, Thomas
• Odrich, Ernst
• Phonograph cylinders
• Single collection
• TED picture discs
• Tefifon collection

per: March 2005

Andersen, Lale

• 80 song texts with some unknown presentations e. g. by Axel Eggebrecht, Erich Kästner
• 130 orchestra interpretations of her well-known songs
• tour programmes
• newspaper articles and correspondence with publishers like Ralph Maria Siegel and Peter Schaeffers

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Berswordt, Eberhard von

(Broadcast and media expert)

• 14,000 shellac records and LPs as well as company catalogues
• documentation of records issued abroad by German Jazz and light music artists
• containing: bequest by Jimmy Jungermann: mostly Jazz, but also 100 original Walt Disney LPs

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Eight-Track-Tapes (8-Track-Bänder)

• recordings and reproduction devices for electro-magnetical cassette tapes from the 1970's

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Fischer, Helmut

(Actor from Munich)

• Core collection: Cabaret

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Hutter, Franz

(Swiss music teacher and private collector)

• 56,000 shellac records
• range from Emile Berliner records to the end of the shellac era (1896 - about 1956)
• all genres
• core collection: song recordings as well as vocal and music recordings from
  theatre, cabaret and film performances

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Piano rolls

• over 2,000 perforated note rolls for electronic pianos, artificial pianos and reproduction pianos
• mostly permanent loans of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz
• reproduction pianos made by Hupfeld present at the German Music Archive (Deutsche Musikarchiv) Berlin
  
  

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Leimbach, Berthold

(author of the discography "Tondokumente der Kleinkunst und ihre Interpreten 1898 - 1945")

• 5,000 shellac records
• Cabaret: Chanson singers, movie artists

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Mager, Christine

2,000 LPs and CDs of organ recordings
classified by organ locations

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Mann, Thomas

• 132 shellac records, mostly Wagner, original covers, bought in Munich, taken into the American Exile

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Odrich, Ernst

(Board member of Vox-Schallplatten- und Sprechmaschinen-AG Berlin)

• rare 17.5 cm shellac records, among other things those with imprinted portraits without middle hole, which may only be played with a special turn table supplement

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Phonograph cylinders

• 400 cylinders from 1877 until the end of the 1920's made of various materials, especially: Edison cylinders

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Single collection

• 13,000 items: mostly foreign artists on German singles

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TED picture discs

• complete recordings from the early 1970's, except UFA recordings
• reproduction device: Donation by Teldec "Telefunken-Decca" Schallplatten GmbH, present at the German Music Archive (Deutsches Musikarchiv) Berlin

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Tefifon collection

• The Tefifon tape is an endless particularly rolled up synthetic tape with engraved spiral-shaped sound grooves in a cassette
• The recording time is up to 240 minutes
• The reproduction is like records by a phono sound device (Needle sound method)
• dissemination: light music sector of the 1950's
• recordings and sound reproduction devices from the speech machine collection Schoppmann

• Information Deutsches Musikarchiv

Last update: 15.3.2013

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