ARCHIVE OF WOMEN IN MUSIC GOES DIGITAL
Digital German Women’s Archive (DDF)
The Archiv Frau und Musik realises digital projects within the framework of the Digital German Women’s Archive/Deutsches Digitales Frauenarchiv (DDF).
The Digital German Women’s Archive (DDF) is an interactive portal specialized on the history of women’s movements in Germany. It invites you to get to know topics, actors and networks of women’s movements from two centuries. For this purpose, the lesbian/women’s archives, libraries, and documentation centres linked in the i.d.a. umbrella organisation present selected digital copies and further information from their holdings. Since the online launch of the portal on September 13th 2018, the Archiv Frau und Musik has been represented through a selection of its holdings. The Women’s Orchestra Project (FOP), led by conductor Mary Ellen Kitchens, who is also a board member of the International Working Group Women and Music e. V./Internationaler Arbeitskreis Frau und Musik e. V. (IAK), provided the musical accompaniment at the festive ceremony marking the online launch of the DDF at HU-Berlin.
In 2022, the Archiv Frau und Musik launched the project #WIMUGG! Women in Music: Heard – Seen! The focus is on documenting concert events, as well as archiving websites related to women and music.
In 2020, the Archiv Frau und Musik launched the project #WhatAreWeWaitingFor? Here the archive focused on the estate of the female composers Felicitas Kukuck, Leni Alexander, Silvia Alvarez de la Fuente, and Weronika Aleksandra Markiewicz, digitising large parts of their materials.
In 2019, the Archiv Frau und Musik realised another digitisation project as part of the DDF portal. Under the title #MASCHA: Musik-Akteurinnen schaffen Aufmerksamkeit, interviews were conducted with important representatives of women’s music movements (since the 1970s).
In 2018, the #PARFUMO project was carried out. The aim was to digitise and make accessible selected archival materials and exhibits from the archive. In addition, the journal VivaVoce, published by the Working Group Women and Music (IAK), as well as the predecessor publication Info. Archivnachrichten, were completely digitised. Depending on the legal situation, all digitised media will gradually find their way into the META catalogue of the i.d.a. umbrella organisation.
Project teams
#PARFUMO: Mary Ellen Kitchens M. A. (project management) | Anne-Marie Bernhard M. A. (project coordination until April 2019) | Julian Fischer M. A. (project assistance)
#MASCHA: Mary Ellen Kitchens M. A. (project management) | Anne-Marie Bernhard M. A. (project coordination until April 2019) | Julian Fischer M. A. (project assistance until April 2019; project coordination from April 2019)
#WhatAreWeWaitingFor?: Mary Ellen Kitchens M. A. (project director) | Julian Fischer M. A. (project coordinator) | Jelena Rothermel M. A. (project assistant)
#WIMUGG! Women in Music: Heard – Seen!: Mary Ellen Kitchens M. A. (project management) | Julian Fischer M. A. (project coordinator until June 2022) | Jelena Rothermel M. A. (project coordinator from Juli 2022) | Bettina Weber (project assistance)