Wilhelm Doegen Lautarchiv recordings

What is today known as the Lautarchiv (“sound archive”), based at the Humboldt University, Berlin, contains the remaining traces of almost a century’s endeavors in scientific sound archiving: 7,500 shellac recordings and smaller collections of wax cylinders, tapes, and aluminum discs. Our database provides digital copies of a small selection of these recordings, produced in the 1920s by the archive’s first director, Wilhelm Doegen. The database also holds digital copies of archival material from the early years of the Lautarchiv, preserved at the Deutsches Historisches Museum and the Humboldt University Archive, and of Doegen’s published work on sound recording in the sciences and humanities.