Setup of an internet platform: "Theatre and Music in Weimar. Digitization, registration, scientific processing and online presentation of the Weimar play bills from the season 1969/70 to the political turn 1989/90"

• Applicants: Professor Dr. Michael Klaper; Dr. Bernhard Post
• Subject Area: German Literary and Cultural Studies (Modern German Literature) ; Musicology ; Theatre and Media Studies
• Term: from 2016 to 2021
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 269685553

The project is intended to reconstruct the repertoire of the Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar in the DDR from the time after the construction of the wall until the political change, and to document it on the platform that was created by the ThULB in Jena. The aim of the project is to digitize the surviving theatrical sources from that time, their recording, development and documentation. The documents will be presented within an application (www.theaterzettel-weimar.de) that has been created especially for this project, and can be researched there. All the materials are provided by UrMEL and are integrated in overarching informatic systems, such as DDB, Archivportal-D, and EUROPEANA. The experience and knowledge of the Weimar project team is now a point of reference for other, similar projects (e.g., at the SLUB in Dresden at the end of october 2017), and is a modell for their conceptualiziation (also via a workshop that took place in Weimar at the end of march 2017). The Weimar project, moreover, has applied for a presentation of its work at the 5th International Conference on Digital Libraries for Musicology (DLfM) on 28 September 2018 at the Institut de Recherche et Coordination Acoustique (IRCAM) in Paris, where the international exchange about this and other projects could be furthered.Since the beginning of the current period of support (01/01/2017-31/12/2018), new important, unknown and unused sources as well as new types of sources have been detected, on the basis of which it will be possible to expand the already (because of its completeness) historically unique online database service to the first comprehensive database of theatre sources. The web address will remain the same, since it has become quasi a trademark in the meantime.

• DFG Programme: Cataloguing and Digitisation (Scientific Library Services and Information Systems)
• Participating Institution: Deutsches Nationaltheater und Staatskapelle Weimar GmbH; - Staatstheater Thüringen -; Klassik Stiftung Weimar; Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek; Hochschule für Musik Franz Liszt Weimar; JustOrange - Agentur für Informationsästhetik; Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena; Thüringer Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Jena