Erich Mendelsohn Archiv (EMA)

Abstract

The Erich Mendelsohn Archiv (EMA), which sees itself first and foremost as an "online database" and "archive" and only in a second step as a "digital edition", is a cooperative collection development of the correspondence between the architect Erich Mendelsohn and his wife Luise. The estate has been divided for many decades: While the 1410 letters of Erich Mendelsohn together with his sketches have been in the possession of the Kunstbibliothek Berlin since the beginning of 1975, the 1328 letters of his wife, Luise Mendelsohn, have been kept at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, since 1988. The virtual junction in a joint database began in 2011 and was completed in 2014 with financial support from the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation. All letters exchanged between Erich and Luise Mendelsohn were digitized, transcribed, annotated and linked to external sources. Thus, http://ema.smb.museum/de/ is the first edition of the exchange of letters of the spouses, including its historical and architectural classification.

Keywords

• 20th century
• archive
• correspondence
• digital edition
• german
• letters
• modern
• tei