MWW Research Association

The Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach, the Klassik Stiftung Weimar and the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel preserve collections of works, representing over 500 years of German cultural history. In order to better coordinate and intensify their ongoing collaboration, the three institutions established the MWW Research Association with funding provided by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Under the aegis of the MWW, the participating researchers carry out projects, expand digital research infrastructures, manage a joint scholarship programme, and strengthen international exchange.

 

MWW case studies at the Klassik Stiftung Weimar

  • Goethe Digital

    Since March 2019, the project “Goethe Digital” has been creating an authorial library collection room, in which Goethe’s private library and the books he borrowed from the ducal library (HAAB) in Weimar are digitally documented. The project is headed by Prof. Dr. Stefan Höppner.

  • Art and Memoria  

    The focus of this case study is the physical estate of the Nietzsche-Archiv in Weimar, in particular the former belongings of Elisabeth Förster-Nietzsche, as well as authentic Nietzsche memorabilia and artworks produced in connection to the Nietzsche-Archiv. The project is headed by Manuel Schwarz.

    MWW Digital Humanities (DH) projects at the Klassik Stiftung Weimar

    • Virtual Research Space

      The Virtual Research Space offers researchers digital access to the collections of the three partner institutions independent of their location, along with interactive, computer-aided possibilities for methodically innovative research perspectives. The project is headed by Christiane Müller.

    • Virtual Collection Space

      The aim of the Virtual Collection Space is to provide researchers with a cross-disciplinary, standardised infrastructure for studying the collections of the partner institutions using different cataloguing systems. The project is headed by Stefan Alschner.

    • Digital Makerspace

      The Digital Makerspace enables visitors to engage with digital, digitized and digitizable cultural heritage objects. The exploration is possible virtually (as a lab in the Virtual Research Space), analog (in the rooms of the Herzogin Anna Amalia Library and as a so-called pop-up variant also at other locations), and hybrid. The project is headed by Ben Kaden and Tim Köhler.

      • Christiane Müller
        Research Assistant at the MWW Research Association

        P +49 3643 545 545
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      • Ben Kaden
        Research Assistant Digital Collection Research

        P +49 3643 545 592
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      • Stefan Alschner
        Research Assistant at the MWW Research Association

        P +49 3643 545 549
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      • Tim Köhler
        Research Assistant Digital Collection Research

        P +49 3643 545 592
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      Conferences and events

      • End-term Conference

        On February 16 & 17, 2023, the End-term Conference of the MWW Research Association will take place at the Klassik Stiftung Weimar under the title "Is Digital Better? Collection Research in the Digital Age". The conference aims to initiate an interdisciplinary dialogue about the goals, effects, potentials, and limits of digital collection research and presentation.

        Promotion of junior researchers

        • International Research Internship Program 2023

          The aim of the program is to promote the international exchange of knowledge and to give advanced students the opportunity to get to know the diverse fields of work in a modern non-university research institution.

        • International Summer School 2023

          In conjunction with the textklang project (University of Stuttgart), the International Summer School entitled "Literary Data and Digital Literature" will be held at the German Literature Archive in Marbach from July 31 to August 11, 2023.

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          • Logo of the Marbach Weimar Wolfenbüttel Research Association

          Projects of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar are funded by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and the Free State of Thuringia, represented by the State Chancellery of Thuringia, Department of Culture and the Arts.