8. Newsletter Datenbank CARLA der HMT Leipzig
Dear readers interested in the CARLA database of the University of Music and Theatre Leipzig,
Spring is slowly arriving, bringing with it lots of sunshine and good humour. We hope that our news about CARLA will also put you in a good mood.
Current state of completion
Firstly, we would like to report on the pleasing status on the indexing and linking of data from the study records in CARLA.
Currently 12.636 of the 12,776 student records up to and including the year 1918 (99%) have been fully processed. In terms of time, we are in the last inscription year of our reporting period - 1918.
The data collection is therefore in the final stages and will soon be completed.
Night at the library
On 4 April 2025, the nationwide Night of the Libraries will take place for the first time and the library of the University of Music and Theatre ‘Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy’ Leipzig will also take part!
Between 11 a.m. and 10 p.m., anyone interested will have the opportunity to use the library and talk to staff about various topics. There will also be an exhibition of historical materials from the library and the university archives.
At 18:43, we will present the CARLA project in a lecture. Based on the story of a former student of the conservatory, we would like to report on the database and other areas of work in the library and archive. As a highlight, you can look forward to a short musical contribution.
We cordially invite you all to visit us at the HMT Leipzig library on 4 April and listen to our presentation in the university's rehearsal hall at 18:43.
CARLA on tour
In our newsletter from 24 September 2024, we reported that we were able to present CARLA at the annual conference of IAML Germany. We are now pleased to announce that CARLA will be given a stage at other specialist conferences this year.
The small lecture tour starts in June at the 9th Library Congress. From 24 to 27 June, the German library world will meet in Bremen and we will be part of it with CARLA. Our presentation will take place on Thursday 26 June at 5pm and is part of the session ‘Inhalte bewahren + zeigen’. You can find the entire programme of the Library Congress here.
Afterwards, our CARLA lecture tour will take us to Salzburg for the international IAML congress. Between 6 and 11 July, people from music libraries, archives and documentation centres from all over the world will gather and CARLA will be there. At the moment CARLA's presentation is scheduled for Wednesday 9 July at 11am in the session ‘Databases for Music Libraries and Archives’.
We are very pleased to have the opportunity to present CARLA to even more people and thus make the project better known.
Article in the ‘Forum Musikbibliothek’
Anyone who missed our presentation at the IAML Germany annual conference in September last year can now read it in written form in the new issue of the magazine ‘Forum Musikbibliothek’ published by ortus musikverlag. CARLA is discussed in detail and illustrated on pages 7 to 13.
New digitised material from HMT Leipzig on sachsen.digital
As part of the State Digitization Programme for Science and Culture of the Free State of Saxony coordinated by the SLUB Dresden, numerous historical materials from the library and archive of the University of Music and Theatre ‘Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy’ Leipzig have once again been digitized. These are now available via sachsen.digital.
A large proportion of the new digitized material relates to works by Gewandhaus conductor and Conservatory teacher Carl Reinecke. Other interesting sources on the history of the Conservatory, such as the album of a former student as well as rare prints and autographs from the library's holdings, have also been digitized.
All digitized holdings of the HMT Leipzig library and archive can be found on sachsen.digital.
Thank you!
As at the end of every newsletter, we would like to thank you for your continued interest in CARLA.
If you have any further questions or comments about the CARLA database or any of the issues mentioned in this newsletter, please do not hesitate to contact us at carla@hmt-leipzig.de.
We wish you a wonderful springtime!
PS:
This time we would like to put two of our former students in the spotlight. Through research to check whether data records already created in the German Authority File match these two students, we have come across some interesting findings about them.
Daisy Else Clotilde Dürr was born in Leipzig in 1895, the daughter of booksellers and publishers Else and Johannes Friedrich Dürr. Her parents owned the Dürrsche Buchhandlung, an educational publishing house. From 1915 to 1918 and from 1924 to 1928, Daisy studied singing at the Leipzig Conservatory with Julia Hansen and Hjalmar Arlberg, among others.
She later worked as a musician and composer. The print of one of her compositions (3 songs for one voice with piano accompaniment) is held in the German Literature Archive in Marbach. In 1922, the medallist Karl Goetz (1875-1950) produced a bronze medal with her profile.
Dürrs study records (inscription number 12251) from our collection:
inscription (2. page with photograph)
report (1918)
Rose Hirschel (married name Gerisch) was born in Braunschweig in 1894. After studying at the Leipzig Conservatory between 1917 and 1919, she worked as a music teacher at a music teachers' college in Kiel. She then attended a business college.
In 1922, she joined the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) and the Central Association of Employees (ZDA). In 1925, she left the SPD and became a member of the International Socialist Fighting League (ISK), whose local group in Magdeburg she led. After the National Socialists seized power in 1933, Rose Hirschel was involved in illegal political work and was taken into ‘protective custody’ by the Gestapo in Berlin from January to April 1938. She was then in pre-trial custody in Moabit. In May 1939, she was sentenced to two years in prison for preparation of high treason, which she served in Waldheim prison.
After the end of the war in 1945, she was involved in setting up the Free German Trade Union Federation (FDGB) and joined the SPD again. After the forced reunification, she became a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) and was elected to the Saxony-Anhalt state parliament in 1946. From 1950 onwards, Rose Hirschel was repeatedly caught up in the SED's political purges until she was expelled from the SED following a review in March 1951.
(source: Rose Gerisch in the German Wikipedia)
Hirschels study records (inscription number 12525) from our collection:
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