Research Institute Brenner-Archiv

The Research Institute Brenner-Archiv is a center for documentation and research on literature at the University of Innsbruck, which emerged in 1964 from the archive of the journal Der Brenner. Initially, the Brenner-Archiv was a division of the University's Department of German Studies. In 1979 it was established as a separate research institute of the university by a contract between the Republic of Austria, the State of Tyrol and the University of Innsbruck. The Brenner-Archiv comprises about 270 literary estates, partial estates and collections of culturally engaged persons and cultural organizations (publishers, literary awards, etc.), about 30,000 books and several thousand photographs. In early 2019 the archive received an extensive collection on the writer and journalist Karl Kraus. The inventory also includes the literary estates of philosophers such as Ernst von Glasersfeld, Victor Kraft and Wolfgang Stegmüller as well as a Ludwig Wittgenstein collection. Important publications, complete editions and editions of works by Georg Trakl, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Norbert C. Kaser, Christine Lavant, Grete Gulbransson, Fritz von Herzmanovsky-Orlando, Ferdinand Ebner, Christine Busta and other personalities of cultural life originated at the Research Institute Brenner-Archiv.

External links

• Research Institute Brenner-Archiv – official website
• Walter Methlagl: Literary Archives - Manuscript Librarians as Scholars
• Life in the Archives! – Finds from the Brenner Archives Research Institute (edited by Annette Steinsiek)
• Brenner Archiv wird 50 Jahre alt (The Brenner-Archiv turns 50) – ORF Tirol 6/10/2014