UMAC Worldwide Database of University Museums & Collections

Address:
Forschungsinstitut für deutsche Sprache, Deutscher Sprachatlas, Hermann-Jacobsohn-Weg 3, 35032 Marburg, Germany

Opening Hours:
By appointment for scientific studies

Contact:
Dr. Alfred Lameli, Head of the Archive
lameli@staff.uni-marburg.de
Phone: ++ 49 (0) 6421-28-22482
Fax: ++49 (0) 6421-28-28936

Additional information:
http://www.svmbg.de:8080/sixcms/detail.php?id=20608

Links:
Forschungsinstitut für Deutsche Sprache - Deutscher Sprachatlas
Philipps-Universität Marburg

Description:
The archived materials include handwritten and printed texts, maps, graphic and sound documents, plus private and institutional bequests dating back to the second half of the 19th century. Among other things, over 100,000 dialect questionnaires from more than 50,000 German-speaking localities are archived. The sound archive encompasses around 3,500 recordings of German dialects on various media. A digital archive, which will eventually incorporate the most important material, including the sound recordings, is being assembled and can already be viewed at http://www.diwa.info.

Further Reading:
Herrgen, Joachim / Lenz, Alexandra / Pennay, Mark (2003): The Research Institute for German Language - "Deutscher Sprachtlas" (Marburg). In: Dialectologia et Geolinguistica, 11, S. 94-109.