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Cultural Report 2024

Stuttgart City Archive 2022/2023

The Stuttgart City Archive is a place and a partner for everyone who is interested in the history of Stuttgart. The employees of the City Archive record sources, preserve them and make them accessible. The City Archive imparts science-based historical knowledge and critical skills.

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  1. Place of social debate
  2. Education and mediation at the city archive as a place of learning
  3. Digitization
  4. events
  5. Data and facts
  6. Outlook
  7. The City Archive on the Internet
Themed tour for International Women's Day at the Stuttgart City Archive.

Place of social debate

In this reporting period, the Stuttgart City Archive once again discussed key social issues at events and exhibitions.

One highlight was the event with Charlotte Isler in October 2023. She was born in Stuttgart on November 24, 1924 and was expelled from Stuttgart as a result of the pogrom on November 9, 1938. Her family managed to flee to the USA.

In her memoirs, which have been published in German translation as volume 115 of the Stadtarchiv's publication series, Charlotte Isler recounts her childhood in her home town in the late 1920s and early 1930s. After the National Socialists came to power, the living conditions of her Jewish family changed dramatically and they were subjected to increasing discrimination and open hostility.
Charlotte Isler in conversation with Silke Arning (SWR) on October 4, 2023 at the Stuttgart City Archive.
On October 13, 2022, a conference on the history of homelessness from a historical and current perspective took place in the city archive on the occasion of the acquisition of a thematically relevant bequest.
Homelessness is a historical phenomenon with a long history. At the same time, unlike other risks of human existence, it remains an unsolved social problem.
In a panel discussion with historian Dr. Martin Ulmer and the state government's commissioner against anti-Semitism Dr. Michael Blume, the city archive recalled anti-Semitic riots in Stuttgart in 1873 in March 2023 under the title "The forgotten pogrom".
From left to right: Dr. Martin Ulmer, Prof. Barbara Traub, Dr. Günter Riederer, Dr. Katharina Ernst. Dr. Michael Blume

Education and mediation at the city archive as a place of learning

The City Archive's educational and outreach work was significantly expanded once again thanks to the newly created position of archive educator in 2022. Very different groups, including preparatory classes and trainees, were able to get to know the possibilities of the archive in an action-oriented way, tying in with their own questions, experiences and interests. The existing collaborations with a wide range of institutions were expanded through the educational partnership concluded with the Königin Olga-Stift in June 2023, which includes regular offers in the city archive for five year groups. New modules were also created, for example on colonial references in Stuttgart's past.

Workshop at the Stuttgart City Archive - A stumbling block and its history

Data and facts

Shelf meters used in the reporting period.
Almost 5,000 archive records were presented in the reading room of the city archive in each reporting year.
Number of requests received by the city archive in the two years 2022 and 2023
Number of blog posts published in the reporting period.
Number of scans on the visitor scanner in the reporting period.
The city archive offers around 20 events a year.
During the reporting period, the City Archives offered more than 50 archive education programs.

Outlook

The City Archive will continue to expand its digital offerings as well as welcoming and supporting all those interested in Stuttgart's history on site. It will enrich the lives of Stuttgart's citizens by increasing understanding and appreciation of the past. It will be a place where the future and the past of the city are discussed.

The City Archive on the Internet

Locations of the city archive

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  • Lernort Geschichte in cooperation with the Stuttgart City Archive and students of the HdM Stuttgart
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  • Stuttgart Cultural Office Photo: Julia Sang Nguyen
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  • Cultural Office Stuttgart Photo: Sandra Feller
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  • Max Kovalenko
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