Cataloguing Günter Grass's Library
Cataloguing of the Library of Günter Grass
Facts & Files was commissioned to document and catalog the library holdings of the Nobel Prize winner for literature by the Günter-Grass-Haus in Lübeck.
Project Category: History Communications
End of War II in Berlin
Crowdsourcing / Collection Day
To commemorate the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, the Berlin State Library and we have launched a citizen science project in which private documents and photos from the post-war period (1945–1950) are being digitised and made available online.
Lübeck-Schlutup Border Documentation Center
Cataloguing of Objects about the Border
Facts & Files was commissioned by the Border Documentation Centre (GDS) in Schlutup, a former fishing village on the eastern edge of Lübeck.
GDR History Museum in Perleberg
Cataloguing of Objects and Museum Concept
Facts & Files was commissioned by Dokumentationszentrum Perleberg Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts in der Prignitz e.V. with cataloguing of the Hans-Peter and Gisela Freimark’s collection in 2023.
DDR BOX
Research
Facts & Files was conducting research on vocational training and professions in East Germany for the online multi media project DDR-Box.
Exhibition on Karl Fischer
Facts & Files was commissioned in 2020 by the district office Steglitz-Zehlendorf to archive the papers of Karl Fischer and to compile an exhibition concept on it.
Research on Julio Metal
Julio Metal was a banker and investor, who lived in Berlin and Vienna. His property was “aryanized” after 1933. He fled to the USA in 1938. His granddaughter produced the podcast “Recovering Julio” about the history of her family and Julio Metal.
Europeana 1914-1918
Launched in 2011, the “Europeana 1914–1918” project is a pan-European collection of personal memorabilia from the First World War
Facts & Files was handling press relations and organised the collection days during which documents and other objects could be digitised.
“Shot in Moscow …”
The German victims of Stalinism
“Shot in Moscow…” was an international project funded by the Federal Foundation for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in Germany, Berlin. In 2024, we published an online edition of the biographies.
Tutankhamun – His Tomb and Its Treasures
The Tutankhamun exhibition breaks new ground in the presentation of acient Egypt history.
Facts & Files researched footage, illustrations and photographs, and created educational material, such as student work sheets.