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Marbach stands for the Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach or DLA for short. The DLA is literature archiv, library and museum at the same time.
The literature archive is the most important research centre for the history of German literature from 1750 to the present time. It is located in Marbach, Friedrich Schiller’s birthplace. Its holdings encompass more than 1.200 estates of writers, scholars, philosophers and historians such as Paul Celan, W.G. Sebald, Norbert Elias, Martin Heidegger and Reinhard Koselleck. Living authors, among them Martin Walser, Peter Handke and Bernhard Schlink, have already trusted parts of their manuscripts to the archive’s care.
The library with nearly 800.000 units and over 1.000 journals is easily accessible and an invaluable source for research on German literature of the 20th and 21st century.
Two museums - the Schiller-Nationalmuseum (SNM) from 1903 and the Literaturmuseum der Moderne (LiMo) from 2006 - present permanent and temporary exhibitions on German literature.
In 2008 a group of American university teachers was invited to visit Marbach and to examine the importance of its archive. In the end, the American Friends of Marbach (AFM) was founded.
| Honorary Chairman: | Fritz Stern |
| President: | Walter Hinderer (Princeton) |
| Treasurer: | Hal Rennert (Gainesville) |
| Secretary: | Frank Druffner (Marbach) |
| Founding Members: | Hans Adler (Madison) Rüdiger Campe (Yale) Peter Hohendahl (Cornell) Tony Kaes (Berkeley) Roland Kamzelak (Marbach) Marcel Lepper (Marbach) Harry Liebersohn (Urbana) Paul Michael Lützeler (St. Louis) Anson Rabinbach (Princeton) Ulrich Raulff (Marbach) Frank Trommler (Philadelphia) Nikolaus Wegmann (Princeton) Liliane Weissberg (Philadelphia) David E. Wellbery (Chicago) Meike G. Werner (Nashville) |
annual membership $ 30, students and emeriti $ 15; founding and supporting membership from $ 250 p.a. With a one-time contribution of $ 2.500 founding and supporting members will become life-time members.
Members are privileged users of the DLA: they receive the DLA-newsletter and pay reduced rates for exhibition entrance and publications. Founding and supporting members are considered as director’s guests and can stay at the Collegienhaus for free for up to three months.
Membership issues: Hal Rennert: hal_rennert(a)hotmail.de General information: Frank Druffner: frank.druffner(a)dla-marbach.de
Please visit the German homepage of the DLA: www.dla-marbach.de – there you can get further information and browse the online catalogue (OPAC Kallìas) for books, manuscripts, documents and objects concerning all aspects of literary life from the Age of Reason to the present time.
Marbach has a guest house (Collegienhaus) for short- and long-term stays of scholars and students. Please check www.dla-marbach.de
erstellt: 2.10.2009, ka - aktualisiert: 2.10.2009, ka - contact: Roland Kamzelak