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