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Biographical File 1924-2000

 

Memoirs: Ein Glas voll bunter Scherben

box 1

First manuscript

 

Second manuscript

box 2

Third manuscript

 

Final manuscript

 

Documents related to his memoirs

 

Short stories and poems

box 3

Short stories: Manuscript 1998

 

Short stories: Opa's kurze Geschichten, 1998

 

Poems: Manuscript 1956-2000

 

Poems: Final manuscript: Opa's poetische Erguesse 2000

 

Personal documents

box 4

Passports, membership passes of FDGB

 

Certificates

 

Photocopies: Family and friends

 

Photocopies: Himself and his cats

 

Documents: Klaus Janisch: Occupation at theatre 1958-1974

 

Correspondence: Klaus Janisch: Hospitalization 1957-1983

 

Correspondence with medical authorities 1977-1979

 

Documents: Klaus Janisch: Financial support 1981-1984

 

Documents: Klaus Janisch: Drawings 1980

 

Letters: Condolences: Walter Janisch 1966

 

Letters: Condolences: Margarete Janisch 1979

 

Receipts: Funeral home 1966-1985

 

Correspondence: Klaus Janisch, Margarete Janisch 1960-1971

 

Documents: Margarete Janisch 1966-1979

 

Documents: Walter Janisch 1924-1936

 

Family documents, miscellaneous

 

Correspondence: Helmut Gubitz 1999-2000

 

Letters: Janisch to mother during military service 1974-1975

 

Letters: Emma Wolf to Margarete Janisch 1935-1960

 

Letters: Hermann Wolf 1934-1944

 

Letters: Paul Wolf 1941-1944

 

Letters: Miscellaneous

 

Documents: Miscellaneous

box 39

Pins and medals

Access

Box 39 may not be used without permission of the Archivist.
box 39

Glass slides showing his family and friends

Access

Restricted.
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Photographic negatives

 

Books related to his childhood

box 5

Der junge Naturforscher II (gift from his parents, 1952) 1952

 

Der junge Naturforscher III 1954

 

Der junge Naturforscher IV 1956

 

Work at State-Run East German Publishing Houses 1961-1996

 

1961-1983

box 6

Documents: Dietz-Verlag 1961-1996

 

Certificates: Dietz-Verlag 1964-1983

 

Dietz Verlag: Photographs of exhibition

 

Magazine: Simplidietzimus, in-house production of Dietz-Verlag

 

Books: Typography or cover art designed by Janisch

box 6

Type and Typography: The Designer's Typebook, Reinhold Publishing Corporation, New York 1963

 

Deformierte Vergesellschaftung: Zur Soziologie des staatsmonopolistischen Kapitalismus der BRD, Akademie Verlag, Berlin 1982

 

Das Haus am Laerchen Wald, Jiří Křenek, 2 volumes

box 37

Das Haus am Laerchen Wald, Jiří Křenek (continued)

 

Wahrhaftige Geschichten. Montesquieu

 

Artgerechte Jugendhaltung: Ideen zur selbständigen evangelischen Jugendarbeit in der Gemeinde. Timona-Verlag, Bochum 1992

 

Buch Club 65, Heft 1. Berlin 1977

 

Konrad's Traktor. Kahlau, Heinz; Platzer Rudolf. Verlag Junge Welt, Berlin 1974

 

Die grosse Initiative, V. I. Lenin. Dietz Verlag, Berlin 1970

 

Lebendige Hoffnung, Evangelische Haupt-Bibelgesellschaft, Berlin 1984

box 7

Die grosse Wende in einer kleinen Stadt. Becker, Franz. Dietz-Verlag, Berlin 1969

 

Anorganische Festköperreaktionen. Engels, Siegfried. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1986, 1989

 

Surface Waves and Discontinuities. Malischewsky, Peter. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1984

 

10 sowjetdeutsche Erzähler. Verlag Volk und Welt, Berlin 1982

 

Die Dolmetscherin. Gergely, Agnes

 

Litauische Poesie aus zwei Jahrhunderten. Verlag Volk und Welt, Berlin 1983

 

Illustrierte Geschichte der deutschen frühbuergerlichen Revolution. Dietz-Verlag, Berlin 1974

 

Internationale Buch-Ausstellung (iba), two volumes. Leipzig 1971

 

Psychologie in unserem Leben

 

A series of books honoring the best designed books of each year

Scope and Contents note

Janisch is included in many of these volumes.
box 8

Die schönsten Bücher der DDR, 13 volumes 1964-1983

 

Work at the Museum 1995-2001

box 9

Photographs: Work at museum

 

Work at museum: Letters, clippings, copies of guestbook 1995-2001

 

Political Art 1971-2003

box 9

Collage: "Spielball"

 

Collage: "Wie man uns gerne hätte"

 

Collage: "Lebensfrohe, glückliche Leibeigene-unser Ziel"

 

Collage: "Die Deutschen Revolutionen"

 

Collage: "Golfregion"

 

Collage: "Den Opfern der Gewalt"

 

Collage: "Frieden ist möglich"

 

Collage: "Der grosse Kurfürst"

 

Collage: "Hurra! Gorbatschow fällt auf die Nase"

 

Collage: "Unmündig"

 

Collage: "Abteilungsleiter"

 

Collage: "Alles zum Wohle des Volkes"

 

Collage: "Nur Hammel laufen in der Herde"

 

Four untitled collages

 

Postcards designed by Janisch 1971-1998

 

Rewards for collages 1984-1998

 

Photocopies of collages 1981-1989

 

Collages removed from exhibitions or prohibited 1980-1989

 

Signets designed by Janisch, two offset plates used in production of two of Janisch's posters

 

Newspaper clippings showing Janisch's collages 1987-1991

 

Posters

box 10

Color posters, 92 images 1983-1995

box 11

96 color posters and galley proofs 1996-2000

box 12

One galley proof of poster, "Ich will nicht so enden," undated

box 13

15 galley proofs of political posters 1980s

box 14

16 posters and 11 galley proofs

box 15

30 galley proofs of posters

box 16

37 galley proofs of posters

box 17

84 posters about environmental concerns, peace, critique of consumer culture, militarism and German past in general 1980s

box 18

25 files, matted prints of animals, abstract images, galley prints

box 19

Newspapers from Germany, Netherlands, Denmark and England 1966-1996

 

Exhibition and related documents

box 20

List of exhibitions and collages donated

 

Correspondence: Exhibitions and related documents 1982-1994

 

Clippings and related documents 1995-1999

 

Invitations to exhibitions

 

Exhibitions in Netherlands: Documents, photographs, letters 1984-2001

 

Exhibitions in Austria, Denmark, Canada: Clippings and related documents 1987-2001

 

Photos of exhibitions

 

Janisch's involvement in art organizations and events

box 20

Exhibition: "Fotomontage als Kunstprinzip" and related documents

 

Documents: "Künstlergruppe Blauer Reiter Leipzig," 1989-1995

 

Postcards: "Bienale" in Mons (Belgium) and other artists 1989-1995

 

Political Activities 1981-2003

 

Stasi and organizations for victims

box 21

Brochure: Abkürzungsverzeichnis/Häufig verwendete Abkürzungen und Begriffe des Ministeriums für Staatssicherheit. Berlin 1996

 

Bruchure: Das Arbeitsgebiet in der Kriminalpolizei/Aufgaben, Strukturen und Verhältnis zum Ministerium für Staatssicherheit. Berlin 1994

 

Correspondence: Buergerbuero, "Gesprächskreis politisch Verfolgter" and related documents 1998-2001

 

Brochures: Torture victims, reports

 

Copies: Excerpts from Janisch's Stasi files 1986-1989

 

Newspapers: Stasi enlightenment 1990-1991

 

Clippings 1992-2002

 

Exhibition about the Stasi: Announcements and clippings 1999-2001

 

Correspondence with German government 2001

 

Involvement in peace organizations and related projects

box 22

Magazines and brochures about peace movements

 

Documents: "9th International Conference on War Tax Resistance and Peace Tax Campaigns," 2002 September

 

Documents: "Netzwerk Friedenssteuer," 1999-2003

 

Documents: "Das mobile Friedensseminar," 1981-2001

 

Documents: Anti-war movements 2001-2002

 

Newsletter: "Conscience of Canada," 2000-2002

 

Newspapers: War on Iraq 2002

 

Correspondence and publications of German parties and clippings about Iraqi War 2001

 

Propaganda against war on Iraq 2003

box 23

Book: Living Non-Violence: Ghandi in Action. Bharadwaj, A. B.; Delhi 1988

 

Brochures: Friedensmuseum der Evangelischen Kirche Berlin-Brandenburg: Seinen Ort finden, Ende und Anfang, 1997-1998

 

Brochure: Dem Frieden eine Chance geben!

 

Brochure: 10 Jahre nach der Revolution in der DDR/ Aufbruch 89. 3 issues 1999-2000

 

Brochure: Für eine Zukunft in Solidarität und Gerechtigkeit. Kirchenamt der Evangelischen Kirche 1997

 

Correspondence and material about exhibition: "Zur Kultur des Friedens" 2000

 

Book: Frieden...zur Kultur des Frieden, Eisenstadt 2000

box MC21

Die Fischerinsel - Zeugnisse und Spuren 2004

Physical Description: 1 VHS videocassette

Separated Materials

Originally housed in Box 23
 

Material related to political work

box 24

Invitations and documents: Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung; August-Bebel-Institut 2000-2001

box 24

Brochure: Gewaltfrei für Demokratie 2000

box 24

Fremd im eigenen Haus. Rainer Eppelmann, with mentions of Janisch in text and Janisch's annotations 1993

box 24

Zu seinem Wort stehen. Friedrich Schorlemmer 1994

Scope and Contents note

Memoirs of East German pastor, with copy of Janisch's letter to him after publication.
box 24

Help-Report: "Fakten über drei Diktaturen" (HELP, e.V.) 1999

Scope and Contents note

Uses images of Janisch's posters.
box 24

Verfassungen der DDR 1990

box 24

Vom Grundgesetz zur Deutschen Verfassung 1991

 

Material Revealing the Time of the GDR 1955-2002

box 24

Atlas 1955

 

GDR-jokes 2000

 

Letter to the German "Bundestagspraesident," 1991

 

Clippings and related documents 1990-2002

 

Miscellaneous documents

box 38

Videocasettes, sound cassettes, and disks

 

Incremental Material 1940-2007

box 25

Photography developing equipment 1980s, undated

box 26

Photography developing equipment 1980s, undated

box 27

Photography developing equipment 1980s, undated

box 28

Photography developing equipment 1980s, undated

 

Praktika Nova camera 1960s

 

Mienolta AF-EII camera 1980s

box 29

Framed painting given to Janisch's parents by a Russian prisoner of war in thanks for their help 1943

 

Photography developing equipment 1980s, undated

box 30

Biographical documents 1940-2005

 

Berlin Castle reconstruction printed matter 2003-2005

 

Russian textbooks 1947-1951

 

Peace activism printed matter 2002-2005

box 31

Volk und Welt photographs 1976

 

Netzwerk Friedenssteuer printed matter 1987-2006

box 32

Album of postcard reproductions of posters by Josef Huber 1980s-1990s

box 33

Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands correspondence and newspaper clippings 1993-2006

 

Deutsche Demokratische Republik reparations correspondence and newspaper clippings 1993-2006

 

Personal correspondence and photographs 1993-2005

 

Photographs of posters 1977-1993, undated

box 34

Berlin Castle reconstruction printed matter 1998-2006

box 35

Berlin Castle reconstruction printed matter 1998-2007

 

Netzwerk Friedenssteuer printed matter 2007

box 36

Political questionnaires 1996, 2003

 

Correspondence related to Janisch's artwork with various publishers, museums, and archives circa 1980-2000

box 40

Meopta Axomat 4 enlarging apparatus

Conditions Governing Access

Box 40 may not be used without permission of the Archivist.
box 40

"Vorwärts immer Rückwärts," art object 1990s

Conditions Governing Access

Box 40 may not be used without permission of the Archivist.