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Collaboration

As the Austrian archive for the preservation of audio and video, we have a very broad range of responsibilities. We are very happy to work with national and international partners, with whom we are very happy to network and without whom our work would not be possible. The Österreichische Mediathek would like to thank all the people and institutions that have significantly supported and continue to support our work by donating material as gifts or permanent loans and by collaborating on projects!

[Translate to English:] 2 Hände. Symbolbild Kooperationen

Collaborations are an important pillar of the work of the Österreichische Mediathek

[Translate to English:] Analoge Medienträger in einer Kartonschachtel

We are happy to preserve audio and video collections of historical relevance to Austrian media history.

[Translate to English:] Festsplattenspeicher, Langzeitarchivierung

Media content is digitally archived for the long term together with other cultural institutions.

Digitization partnerships in the fields of music and theater

We cooperate with other cultural institutions in the fields of theater and music to fulfill our mission of preserving Austria's audiovisual cultural heritage. In recent years, several successful collaborations have been established to secure unique recordings of Austrian music and theater history.

Since 2013, audio and video recordings of Burgtheater performances have been digitized, digitally preserved and made available online by the Österreichische Mediathek

Since 2020, audio and video recordings of performances at the Salzburger Festspiele have been digitized, digitally preserved and made available online by the Österreichische Mediathek

Since 2023, audio and video recordings of the Vereinigte Bühnen have been digitized, digitally preserved and made available online by the Österreichische Mediathek.

Since 2018, audio and video recordings of performances by the Volkstheater have been digitized, digitally preserved and made available online by the Österreichische Mediathek.

Collaborations with cultural heritage institutions

We cooperate at various levels with a range of cultural heritage institutions in Austria and abroad. This promotes professional exchange and networking at the institutional level. By acquiring historically significant recordings related to Austrian cultural history, we expand our collection in cooperation and exchange with other institutions.

We have a long-term partnership with the Vienna City Library in the City Hall regarding the acquisition of Viennese-relevant estates and media collections.

We have been in continuous professional and content-related dialog with the ORF's multimedia collections for many years.

We are in close contact with the Phonogrammarchiv at the Academy of Sciences, both at the professional level and in projects.

We are in contact with the Austrian Film Museum regarding new additions to the collection from the film and video sector.

We work together with the Austrian Film Archive to ensure that we preserve historical footage of Austrian cultural history.

Together with the Austrian Parliament, we preserve historical recordings of Austrian parliamentary sessions.

Together with the Arnold Schönberg Center, we preserve Arnold Schönberg's record legacy.

We are happy to use illustrations from the image archive of the Austrian National Library and coordinate our collecting activities

We are working with the House of Austrian History to preserve historical media recordings.

We cooperate with Austro Mechana regarding the preservation of Austrian music productions.

We cooperate with the ÖGL with regard to Austrian literary recordings.

We work together with the Austrian Volksliedwerk on historical Wienerlied recordings.

We are in contact with the Society for Contemporary History at the University of Vienna regarding historical voice recordings.

Preservation of historical theater recordings

We archive recordings on the history of the SPÖ

We archive recordings on the history of the ÖVP

We are keeping the historical tape and record archives of Preiser-Records.

Collaborations of the collection MenschenLeben

Interview cooperation with a focus on openly homosexual people, queer, trans and non-binary individuals, 2021-2024

Interview cooperation focusing on the memories of descendants of Nazi victims, since 2023

Interview cooperation in the Graz region and surrounding area, 2019-2023

Interview cooperation with the Zeithistorisches Zentrum Melk on the focus of memories of the Nazi regime and the post-war period in Lower Austria, since 2020

Interview series with young people from the 20th district in Vienna, 2021-2022

Series of interviews with homeless women, as well as lesbian and activist women, 2020-2021

Interview series with unaccompanied minor refugees 2020-2021, as well as Styrian labor migrants in Vorarlberg, 2022

Interview series with people living with disabilities, 2021-2022

Interview series with people who were connected to Maria Lassnig during her lifetime, 2021-2022

Interview cooperations with a focus on refugees and first-generation Muslims in Austria, 2020-2023

Interview cooperation on the topic “Living in a municipal building”, 2020

Interview cooperation with the focus “Life in Lavanttal”, 2020

Interview cooperation on the topic of “amateur film”, 2020-2021

Interview series on the history of the national park and the development of the Neusiedlersee-Seewinkel region, 2021-2022

Series of interviews on the occasion of the exhibition “Jetzt im Recht!” (Now you're in the right!) marking 30 years of the Austrian Ombud for Equal Treatment.

A series of interviews with women involved in the Austrian women's movement centered around the frida association

Interview cooperation on the topic of “Resistance to the Nazi regime” in the region around Neumarkt am Wallersee, 2021

Interview cooperation as part of the state exhibition “100 Years of Burgenland”, 2021

Are you interested in a collaboration?

Please feel free to contact us!