Literary Estates

The SLUB holds the estates or parts of estates of artists, scientists, photographers, writers and musicians of the 18th, 19th, and 20th century. The estates consist of general written material, music material, stenographic texts, photographs, sound carriers and films. Estates are stored according to their content and media specifics in the special collections and are cataloged in the special catalogs of the manuscript collection, the Deutsche Fotothek, the music department, the stenographic collection and the audiovisual media collection.