Milestones

STERN Photo Archive as part of the exhibition "MUNICH. LOOK here!"

Exhibition opening at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek | © BSB/ H.-R. Schulz

Exhibition opening at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek | © BSB/ H.-R. Schulz

Exhibition opening at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek | © BSB/ H.-R. Schulz

Exhibition opening at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek | © BSB/ H.-R. Schulz

Exhibition opening at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek | © BSB/ H.-R. Schulz

Exhibition opening at the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek | © BSB/ H.-R. Schulz

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

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

Cessation of privately owned STERN image collections 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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