Milestones

The stern Photo Archive in exhibitions of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek

Exhibition 2020 "MUNICH. LOOK here!" – Dalai Lama (around 1990) | © BSB/stern Photo Archive/Jay Ullal

Exhibition 2020 "MUNICH. LOOK here!" – Helmut Schmidt (1969) | © BSB/stern Photo Archive/Peter Thomann

Exhibition 2021 "Facing the Balkans" – Graffiti cover the bullet holes in the facade of a bank building destroyed in the Bosnian war. Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2016 | © BSB/stern Photo Archive/Harald Schmitt — Exhibition 2021 "Facing the Balkans. South-East Europe in photographs by Harald Schmitt" – Graffiti cover the bullet holes in the facade of a bank building destroyed in the Bosnian war. Today, the ruin is a popular meeting point for young people and graffiti artists. Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2016 | © BSB/stern Photo Archive/Harald Schmitt

Exhibition 2021 "Facing the Balkans" – Limited mobility particularly affects women, since fewer women than men have a driving license. Near Saranda, Albania, 2016 | © BSB/stern Photo Archive/Harald Schmitt — Exhibition 2021 "Facing the Balkans. South-East Europe in photographs by Harald Schmitt" – Not everybody owns a car. Limited mobility particularly affects women, since fewer women than men have a driving license. Near Saranda, Albania, 2016 | © BSB/stern Photo Archive/Harald Schmitt

Exhibition 2022 "The Olympic Games 72 in images" – Terrorist on a balcony in Connollystrasse, 5 September 1972 | © BSB/stern Photo Archive/Volker Hinz – Sven Simon — Exhibition 2022 "The Olympic Games 72 in images" – Terrorist on a balcony in Connollystrasse, 5 September 1972 – On the early morning of 5 September, eight Palestinian terrorists forced their way into the accommodation of the Israeli team. They shot the trainer of the wrestlers Moshe Weinberg and severely injured the weight lifter Josef Romano. Both had attempted to stop the hostage takers, thereby giving some of their comrades the time to flee through the back door. | © BSB/stern Photo Archive/Volker Hinz – Sven Simon

Exhibition 2022 "The Olympic Games 72 in images" – Ilana Romano at the grave of her husband Josef Romano, January 1973 | © BSB/stern Photo Archive/Fred Ihrt — Exhibition 2022 "The Olympic Games 72 in images" – Ilana Romano at the grave of her husband Josef Romano, January 1973 – For the families of the murdered Israelis their loved ones’ death made a whole world collapse. In the years following the tragedy, Ilana Romano and other bereaved relatives fought for an official examination of the events. However, the West German authorities and those directly responsible for the police operation refused to accept criticism over their conduct. | © BSB/stern Photo Archive/Fred Ihrt

May 2022
The exhibition "The Olympic Games 72 in images – Photographs from the collections of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek" shows images from the stern Photo Archive among other sources

November 2021
The exhibition "Facing the Balkans. South-East Europe in photographs by Harald Schmitt" presents images of the stern photographer Harald Schmitt from the time after his engagement with the stern

March 2020
First images of the stern Photo Archive are shown as a teaser at the exhibition "MUNICH. LOOK here!"

New database and digitization of the stern Photo Archive

February 2023
The image portal www.stern-fotoarchiv.de goes online with almost 1,100 catalogued photo stories, almost 17,000 contact sheets and more than 250,000 individual images
stern Photo Archive

June 2022
Over 600 indexed photo stories with almost 10,000 contact sheets and more than 140,000 individual images catalogued in the internal image database

May 2022
The third of three scanning service providers takes up work on the mass digitization

December 2021
Start of indexing in the internal image database
The first 100,000 images are digitized

September 2021
Start of mass digitization

June 2021
Relocation of the internal image database from the test server to the productive system

May/June 2021
Assignment of the mass digitization work to three scanning service providers following EU-wide invitation to tender

February 2021
A team of six student assistants starts the preparations for the digitization

September 2020
Signing of the contract with a software provider for the licensing and configuration of a new database for the stern Photo Archive

Acquisitions complementing the stern Photo Archive

June 2022
Acquisition of the photo archive of Volker Hinz by the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek

December 2020
Cession of private image collections by Jürgen Müller-Schneck to the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek

September 2020
Cession of private image collections of the stern journalist Mario R. Dederichs to the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek

August 2020
Cessation of the privately owned stern image collection of Mihály Moldvay to the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek

March 2020
Cessation of the privately owned stern image collection of Harald Schmitt to the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek

February 2020
Cessation of the privately owned stern image collections of Hanns Jörg Anders and Peter Thomann to the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek

September 2019
Cessation of the privately owned stern image collections of Jay Ullal, Jürgen Gebhardt and Fred Ihrt to the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek

Press conference and presentation on the occasion of the donation

Press conference at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek | © BSB/ H.-R. Schulz

STERN photographer Peter Thomann | © BSB/ H.-R. Schulz

Press conference at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek | © BSB/ H.-R. Schulz

Press conference at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek | © BSB/ H.-R. Schulz

STERN photographers Jürgen Meffert and Jay Ullal | © BSB/ H.-R. Schulz

Press conference at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek | © BSB/ H.-R. Schulz

Press conference at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek | © BSB/ H.-R. Schulz

STERN photographers Mihály Moldvay and Peter Thomann | © BSB/ H.-R. Schulz

August 2019
Press conference and presentation on the occasion of the donation of the stern Photo Archive with representatives of the publishing house Gruner + Jahr, former stern photographers and the Bavarian State Minister for Education and the Arts Bernd Sibler

Move and compilation of the stern Photo Archive

Gruner + Jahr publishing house | © BSB/ C. Jahn

Pallet with boxes of the B archive | © BSB/ M. Hermann

Pallets of the A archive are stored intermediately | © BSB/ H.-R. Schulz

STERN Photo Archive, negative archive | © BSB/ H.-R. Schulz

STERN Photo Archive, negative archive | © BSB/ H.-R. Schulz

STERN Photo Archive, negative archive | © BSB/ H.-R. Schulz

STERN Photo Archive, A archive | © BSB/ H.-R. Schulz

STERN Photo Archive, A archive | © BSB/ H.-R. Schulz

May 2020
The boxes of the stern A archive are moved into the shelving system built specially for this purpose at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek.

May 2019
All files and further materials of the stern archive of negatives are compiled at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek.

May – June 2019
The stern Photo Archive is moved from Hamburg to Munich.

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