Fonds Landesarchiv Baden-Württemberg, Abt. Hauptstaatsarchiv Stuttgart, J 25 - Friedrich Knilli collection on the media history of anti-Semitism

822 Büschel, 273 Tondokumente, 407 Filmdokumente (29,00 lfd. m)

1. biography of Friedrich Knilli: Friedrich Knilli, born Friedrich Venier on February 14, 1930 in Fehring, Styria (Austria), held the professorship for General Literary Studies with a focus on Media Studies at the TU Berlin from 1972 to 1998. During his time as a university lecturer, he played a key role in shaping the department he co-founded by initiating the "Media Studies" and "Graduate Media Consultant" courses and, after his retirement, by founding the Institute for Applied Media Studies in 2009. His work as a university lecturer was characterized in particular by the practical teaching of scientific content and cooperation with non-university institutions and commercial enterprises. After graduating as a technical school engineer for mechanical engineering in 1949, Knilli studied psychology and general literature in Graz and at the universities of Tübingen and Munich. This was followed by a doctorate in psychology at the University of Graz in 1959 and his habilitation in literature at the Technical University (TU) Berlin in 1972. In addition to his academic career, the scientist, who received the Adolf Grimme Prize in 1971 for the documentary television play "Auf, Sozialisten, schließt die Reihen [...]", also worked as an author of radio plays and screenplays. In addition, he was chairman of the Förderverein Offener Kanal Berlin and initiator of the media portals "Lion Feuchtwanger relaunch" and "kinomarkt.de", for the realization of which he worked closely with the media agency "Dramaworks". His research and teaching activities at the TU Berlin were characterized by his preoccupation with the media forms of expression of anti-Semitism, particularly in relation to the film "Jud Süß", and took him to various European countries, America and Asia for research and lectures. Under his direction and that of his wife Barbara von der Lühe, his decades of research into Joseph Süß Oppenheimer and the media treatment of the film "Jud Süß" resulted in numerous lectures, exhibitions and online projects at the TU Berlin. Interviews with contemporary witnesses and surveys of people of different ages on German film history were at times of great importance. Another field of research and activity of his academic work as a university lecturer was the medium of radio, especially during the National Socialist era. He found a comrade-in-arms in all these matters in his student Siegfried Zielinski, who later became the founding rector of the Academy of Media Arts Cologne and rector of the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design. After his retirement, Friedrich Knilli devoted himself increasingly to the publication of his decades-long book project "Ich war Jud Süß. The story of the film star Ferdinand Marian", the leading actor in the 1940 National Socialist propaganda film "Jud Süß" directed by Veit Harlan. In addition to the publication as a print version, the accompanying academic apparatus appeared as a monthly subscription on the website "www.ich-war-jud-suess.de". A film version of the book, directed by Frank Beyer and starring Max Tidof, was planned for the year 2000, but was not produced. Friedrich Knilli was a member of various academic associations, such as the Lion Feuchtwanger Society and the German Authors' Association and co-founder of the Literary Colloquium Berlin in 1963, whose work he supported from then on.<br /><br />Knilli grew up in Graz with his sisters Hildegard, married name Golubovic (born 1940) and Karla, married name Wagner (born 1945). Friedrich Knilli's first marriage was to the Austrian Monika Kraker; this marriage produced the daughters Maria Knilli, married name Tittel (born 1959), Lena (born 1961) and Judith. Knilli's second marriage was to the historian and colleague Barbara von der Lühe, née Tölle, at the end of the 1990s. Friedrich Knilli's son-in-law and husband of his eldest daughter Maria is the cameraman Volker Tittel (1957-). Even after his retirement, Friedrich Knilli continued to live and work in Berlin.<br /><br />2. History of transmission, evaluation and content of the collection: The Friedrich Knilli collection forms fonds J 25 in the Stuttgart Main State Archives. In 2013, after lengthy negotiations, Friedrich Knilli's collection of around 55 linear meters was purchased by the State Archives, Stuttgart Main State Archives Department. The State Archives' interest in acquiring the documents was also preceded by the collaboration with Friedrich Knilli for the exhibition "Beschlagnahmte Briefschaften. The criminal trial against Joseph Süß Oppenheimer 1737/38", which was organized by the Stuttgart Main State Archives in 2007. The exhibition still survives as an online version and can be viewed on the website of the Baden-Württemberg State Archives at https://www.landesarchiv-bw.de/web/43659. The Knilli Collection thus complements the rich holdings of original documents from the historical trial of Joseph Süß Oppenheimer, which are stored under the holdings designations HStAS A 48, in particular HStAS A 48/14, and HStAS J 300. In a project funded by the "Stiftung Kulturgut Baden-Württemberg", the material in fonds J 25 was re-evaluated, classified, recorded, packaged and made accessible to the public and usable for research in a digital finding aid by the undersigned over a period of 18 months. The repertory of the collection covers the period from 1737 to 2011; the original documents in the collection are available for the period from 1896 to 2011. In terms of content, the collection is divided into two thematic and collection complexes. On the one hand, there are documents on the research and collection area of Joseph Süß Oppenheimer, the historical figure and material history as well as the reception history of the film "Jud Süß". This includes the areas of film history with a focus on the National Socialist era and the biographical history of the actor Ferdinand Marian. The second - much less extensive - section is dedicated to other research projects by Friedrich Knilli, including the history of radio and technology. Both sections of the collection are largely linked by the topic of anti-Semitism and are filled with documents relating to courses from the 1970s to the end of the 1990s. This also includes accompanying events by student staff such as exercises and tutorials, e.g. by Siegfried Zielinski. A large part of the written documents collected over several decades and the trips undertaken were created in connection with preparatory work for the publication project, the biography of Ferdinand Marian "I was Jud Süß". Teaching events and practical projects, correspondence, research and lecture trips as well as the extensive marketing efforts for the book are also to be placed in this context. In addition to Friedrich Knilli's professional and private documents, the collection also contains documents - including diaries and correspondence - from his wives Monika Kraker and Barbara von der Lühe. There are also a few objects in the collection, such as photo plates belonging to Barbara von der Lühe's parents. The heterogeneous collection material, consisting of originals and reproductions, includes printed documents, some with handwritten annotations, correspondence, manuscripts and typescripts, scripts, newspaper articles, newspapers and magazines, archival materials from various archives in Germany, France and America, printed matter, hand drawings, maps and plans, postcards, collector's pictures, photographs and reproductions, slide images and photo negatives, as well as written documents, sound and film sources.<br /><br />The content of the audiovisual documents ranges from recordings from the evening program of German television, silent and feature films of the 20th and 21st centuries and reports on various topics, to recordings from lectures and discussions. In addition to all Jud Süß films, the collection also includes all Ferdinand Marian films. In addition to documentary films, particularly on the film history of the 20th century, the collection also includes portraits of and interviews with greats of the Ufa film industry, such as Arthur Brauer or Kristina Söderbaum, as audio or film documents. In addition, there are interviews with companions of Ferdinand Marian or with people who were interviewed as part of research projects by Friedrich Knilli on the topics of anti-Semitism, film under National Socialism, the film "Jud Süß" or Ferdinand Marian. The use and exploitation of these documents is restricted due to the existing protection periods and the existing copyrights, which are not held by the Stuttgart Main State Archives. Due to the completeness of the published and unpublished materials on the reception history of the film "Jud Süß" and the actor Ferdinand Marian available until the beginning of the 2000s, the collection serves as an extensive source fund for works on the reception history of the film "Jud Süß" as well as on the topics of film under National Socialism and anti-Semitism. In addition, more or less extensive insights can be gained into Friedrich Knilli's professional and private contacts and his way of life and work. The latter include, for example, manuscripts that reveal the individual layers of the author's working process through superimposed text modules. The documents were delivered in boxes, cartons, standing and hanging files or plastic bags. Some of Friedrich Knilli's containers were labeled with keywords, abbreviations, years or numbers and recorded in a rudimentary partial inventory list compiled in 2007. Only some of the containers were organized according to subject or chronology. Provenance information was often not given for literature excerpts and clipped press reports, and photographs and reproductions were only partially labeled. It was not always possible to obtain information on the provenance, dating or context of the documents in question from other documents scattered in various containers and - despite further research - to fully clarify thematic connections within the heterogeneous collection structure. The correspondence was arranged chronologically in accordance with the usual sorting schemes in the collection; in other words, where a chronological sorting system was in place, this was continued; in the case of subject-related archiving, this was intervened in accordingly and the material was also arranged chronologically. Reproductions of archival documents relating to Joseph Süß Oppenheimer, which are located in the aforementioned holdings of the Main State Archives, reproductions of freely accessible online publications and duplicates of reproductions that do not contain any further (handwritten) entries were subject to cassation. If it was assumed that an original was endangered, both the original and the reproduction were archived. In addition, the bibliographic content of card indexes that did not contain any further or individual annotations was removed.<br /><br />In addition to the digitization of the audio-visual documents, which were already separated and listed separately after delivery and inspection, the conservation measures included the proper packaging of the documents and the making of copies of endangered documents. The files stored on CD-ROM and diskette formats were archived in comparison with the existing physical documents. In order to enable standardized searches, personal and location standard data was also added, allowing a large amount of personal data to be entered into the system for the first time. After sorting and indexing, the collection comprises around 29 linear meters in 822 bundles of written sources, 273 numbers of audio recordings and 407 numbers of film archive materials. The audio-visual material was digitized by Sabine Degener, while Hermann Schäffner carried out the indexing. In the months of May 2016-September 2016, Dr. Niklas Konzen created bundles 1-168. In the months of October 2016-October 2017, the undersigned processed the remaining material and comprehensively revised the indexing of the audio-visual documents and bundles 1-168. Further reading: Haus der Geschichte Baden-Württemberg (ed.): "Jud Süss". Propaganda film in the NS state. Catalog for the exhibition at the Haus der Geschichte Baden-Württemberg Stuttgart from December 14, 2007 to August 3, 2008, Stuttgart 2007. Knilli, Friedrich: Dreißig Jahre Lehr- und Forschungsarbeit zur Mediengeschichte des "Jud Süß". A report, in: Alexandra Przyrembel/ Jörg Schönert (eds.): "Jud Süß". Hofjude, literary figure, anti-Semitic distorted image, Frankfurt/ New York 2006, pp. 75-113. Ders.: Ich war Jud Süß. The story of the film star Ferdinand Marian. With a foreword by Alphons Silbermann, Berlin 2000. Web presence for the exhibition "Beschlagnahmte Briefschaften. The criminal trial against Joseph Süß Oppenheimer 1737/38": https://www.landesarchiv-bw.de/web/43659, last viewed on 19.10.2017. Stuttgart, October 2017 Friederike Witek

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