Bei dieser Sammlung geht es um die Akten des Staatssicherheitsdienstes der DDR in einer von der Bundesrepublik eigens für ihre Verwaltung gegründeten Behörde: der des Bundesbeauftragten für die Unterlagen des Staatssicherheitsdienstes der ehemaligen Deutschen Demokratischen Republik (BStU). Die Überwachungsakten der Geheimpolizei bilden einen eignen Quellenkorpus, der Einblicke in Akte kultureller Opposition der DDR erlaubt, die an anderer Stelle nicht mehr zu gewinnen wären. Ein großer Teil der Dokumente konnte 1989/90 nur durch den beherzten Einsatz von "Bürgerkomitees" gerettet werden.

Ort:
- Berlin Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 31, Germany 10178
Themen:
- demokratische Opposition
- Überwachung (verschiedene)
Gründungsdatum:
- 1990
Besondere Beispiele:
- Geheime Berichte an die SED-Führung
- Geheime Telefonabhörprotolle

Samizdat Collection at Petőfi Literary Museum (PLM)

This collection is one of the most important samizdat collections in Hungary. The Museum's Library and Archive started systematically to collect samizdat materials in the 1980s. The materials were kept in closed stacks not available to the public until 1989. The Museum held one of the first exhibitions on samizdat in Hungary after the change of regimes.

Ort:
- Budapest Károlyi utca 16, Hungary 1053
Themen:
Gründungsdatum:
- 1981
Besondere Beispiele:

Samizdat Collection at the Hungarian National Széchényi Library

The Closed Stacks Department of the National Széchényi Library (OSZK) was established in 1946. Everything that was not permitted by the censors and could not be part of the public collection of the library was put here. The librarians argued that the task of the national library was to collect every type of publication regardless of its content. The books and journals which were published by Hungarians who fled the country after the Revolution of 1956 added to the number of items. The department became a meeting point for members of the emerging opposition in the 1980s, which created an opportunity to get actual samizdat writings.

Ort:
- Budapest I. kerület, Hungary 1013
Themen:
- Samisdat and Tamisdat
- Zensur
Gründungsdatum:
- 1977
Besondere Beispiele:

Samizdat Collection of Czechoslovak Documentation Centre

This unique collection of samizdat literature (1972-1989) contains samizdat books by Czech and Slovak authors whose works could not officially be published in socialist Czechoslovakia, as well as a collection of samizdat periodicals and individual texts.

Ort:
- Na Zátorách 6, 170 00 Praha 7 - Holešovice, Czech Republic
Themen:
Gründungsdatum:
- 1976
Besondere Beispiele:
- Seifert, Jaroslav. Plague Column. 1973. Book.

Samizdat from Hungary in the Vera & Donald Blinken Open Society Archives

The samizdat holdings in the Vera & Donald Blinken Open Society Archives is a unique collection of illegal publications of the Hungarian oppositional intellectual circles. Though censorship was milder in Hungary than it was in the other countries of the Eastern Bloc, it would not have been possible for these volumes to have been published in socialist Hungary without independent publishers in the secondary public sphere, or “islands of the free press.”

Ort:
- Budapest Arany János utca 32, Hungary 1051
Themen:
- Samisdat and Tamisdat
Gründungsdatum:
- 1995
Besondere Beispiele:
- 'Ramka' [Illegal Printing Tool], 1981. Object