COURAGE

connecting collections

Leipzig ist nicht nur die Stadt der Montagsdemonstrationen, die sich im Herbst 1989 schnell auf die gesamte DDR ausweiteten und das Regime kollabieren liessen. In der Stadt waren auch die Jahre zuvor zahlreiche Jugend-, Friedens-, Umwelt- und Menschenrechtsgruppen aktiv. Mit seiner Dokumentensammlung besitzt das Leipziger Archiv Bürgerbewegung die größte Sammlung zu ihrer und der Geschichte der Montagsdemonstrationen.

The collection of the D-fund of Prohibited Literature (1945-1991) is located in the National and University Library in Ljubljana and forms an integral part of the Slovenian Press Collection Outside of the Republic of Slovenia. The D-fund mostly contains books and periodicals published outside of socialist Yugoslavia and those primarily pertaining to the Slovenian émigré scene. However, a smaller part of the same fund encompasses the émigré literature of other Yugoslav peoples. In this sense, the D-fund also belongs to the culture of dissent.

The Danilo Kiš collection contains the estate of one of the most important non-conformist writers of socialist Yugoslavia. Kiš's collection is kept at the Archives of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SANU). His anti-authoritarian stance triggered attacks on his writing, which brought him to court. "Nobody did more to prove that Europe's twentieth-century experiments in fiction can take the measure of its experiments in totalitarianism, without curbing the liberties of the one or blurring the crimes of the other." asserts Mark Thompson in "Birth Certificate. The Story of Danilo Kiš" (2013, xi).