Special collections and bequests at the Deutsches Musikarchiv

per: March 2005

Andersen, Lale
Berswordt, Eberhard von
Eight-Track-Tapes (8-Track-Bänder)
Fischer, Helmut
Hutter, Franz
Piano rolls
Leimbach, Berthold
Mager, Christine
Mann, Thomas
Odrich, Ernst
Phonograph cylinders
Single collection
TED picture discs
Tefifon collection

Andersen, Lale

• 80 song texts with some unknown presentations e. g. by Axel Eggebrecht, Erich Kästner
• 130 orchestra interpretations of her well-known songs
• tour programmes
• newspaper articles and correspondence with publishers like Ralph Maria Siegel and Peter Schaeffers

Berswordt, Eberhard von

(Broadcast and media expert)

• 14,000 shellac records and LPs as well as company catalogues
• documentation of records issued abroad by German Jazz and light music artists 
• containing: bequest by Jimmy Jungermann: mostly Jazz, but also 100 original Walt Disney LPs

Eight-Track-Tapes (8-Track-Bänder)

• recordings and reproduction devices for electro-magnetical cassette tapes from the 1970's

Fischer, Helmut

(Actor from Munich)

• Core collection: Cabaret

Hutter, Franz

(Swiss music teacher and private collector)

• 56,000 shellac records
• range from Emile Berliner records to the end of the shellac era (1896 - about 1956)
• all genres
• core collection: song recordings as well as vocal and music recordings from theatre, cabaret and film performances

Piano rolls

• over 2,000 perforated note rolls for electronic pianos, artificial pianos and reproduction pianos
• mostly permanent loans of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz
• reproduction pianos made by Hupfeld present at the Deutsche Musikarchiv Berlin

Leimbach, Berthold

(author of the discography "Tondokumente der Kleinkunst und ihre Interpreten 1898 - 1945")

• 5,000 shellac records
• Cabaret: Chanson singers, movie artists

Mager, Christine

• 2,000 LPs and CDs of organ recordings
• classified by organ locations

Mann, Thomas

• 132 shellac records, mostly Wagner, original covers, bought in Munich, taken into the American Exile

Odrich, Ernst

(Board member of Vox-Schallplatten- und Sprechmaschinen-AG Berlin)

• rare 17.5 cm shellac records, among other things those with imprinted portraits without middle hole, which may only be played with a special turn table supplement

Phonograph cylinders

• 400 cylinders from 1877 until the end of the 1920's made of various materials, especially: Edison cylinders

Single collection

• 13,000 items: mostly foreign artists on German singles

TED picture discs

• complete recordings from the early 1970's, except Ufa recordings
• reproduction device: Donation by Teldec "Telefunken-Decca" Schallplatten GmbH, present at the Deutsches Musikarchiv Berlin

Tefifon collection

• The Tefifon tape is an endless particularly rolled up synthetic tape with engraved spiral-shaped sound grooves in a cassette. The recording time is up to 240 minutes. The reproduction is like records by a phono sound device (Needle sound method).
• dissemination: light music sector of the 1950's
• recordings and sound reproduction devices from the speech machine collection Schoppmann