COURAGE

connecting collections

Die Sammlung der Inszenierungdokumentationen hat ihren Ursprung in den 1960er Jahren in der Arbeit der Akademie der Künste (Ost-Berlin) und dem Verband der Theaterschaffenden der DDR. Ziel der Dokumentation war es, künstlerische Erfahrungen und Ergebnisse der Arbeit zwischen Theaterfachleuten auszutauschen. Neben der Möglichkeit, einen differenzierten Einblick in die Berufsgeschichte des Theaterpraktikers und seine kreativen Prozesse zu bieten, zeigt die Dokumentation auch, wie die Zeitgeschichte in den Theaterproduktionen reflektiert wird. Die Sammlung ist nicht nur für die Bereitstellung einer wertvollen und einzigartigen Dokumentation der kreativen Arbeitsprozesse in den DDR-Theatern von Bedeutung, sondern erfasst auch die abwechslungsreichen Ansätze zum Regime, insbesondere ab den 1980er Jahren.

The collection holds various documents (manuscripts, letters, etc) relating to the Lithuanian historian Ignas Jonynas. His works written in the interwar period laid the foundations for modern Lithuanian national historiography. During Soviet times, Jonynas was a professor of history at Kaunas and Vilnius universities. In 1949, he was severely criticised by Party activists for ‘bourgeois objectivism’ and nationalism. However, Jonynas was still very popular among students, and had a huge influence on the younger generation of Lithuanian historians.

The Igor Cașu Collection represents above all an alternative collection of archival materials about the history of the Soviet Regime in the Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic (MSSR), originating from major public archives in the Republic of Moldova that preserve such documents without granting free access to them. The founder of this collection had privileged access to the items that are now part of his collection in the short time span when he acted as vice-president of the Commission for the Study and Evaluation of the Communist Regime in Moldova in 2010.  In contrast to the public archives, the Igor Cașu Collection, which also includes an oral history interviews section, is shared with fellow researchers.

The Iljko Karaman Collection is an archival collection established in 1949 by the Zagreb Deputy Public Prosecutor, Iljko Karaman (1922-2010), who deposited the collection at the Croatian State Archives in 1992. The collection includes unique material related to state censorship practices in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, the Independent State of Croatia, the People’s Republic of Croatia and the latter Socialist Republic of Croatia until the 1980s.