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coronarchiv

Duration: since 2020

The coronarchive is a freely accessible, open online portal that welcomes anyone’s contribution. Its purpose is to collect, archive, contextualize and exhibit personal memories and memorabilia from the time of the coronavirus pandemic. The archive can include anything that is available in a digital or digitizable format: texts (journals, letters, emails, poems, newspaper and magazine articles, shopping lists, reports, signs, warnings, regulations), photographs, drawings, illustrations, videos, chats, social media posts, voice messages, songs, lectures and anything else that is relevant. 

With the coronarchive a central contact point for the documentation of the present is created, which not only allows a retrospective view of the events of the year 2020, but is also available for future research.

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coronarchiv – sharing is caring. become a part of history!


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Behind the scenes

How does the coronarchive work behind the scenes? Fenja Sohn is a student of history at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum and has supported the project from the beginning, initially as a volunteer in the student moderation team. Since a few weeks she works as a student assistant for the Assistant Professor for History Education . On 19 June 2020 she answered questions about the coronarchive in an interview with the magazine Pointer.
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Hinweis: Beim Klick auf den Play-Button wird eine Verbindung mit einer RUB-externen Website hergestellt, die eventuell weniger strengen Daten­schutz­richt­linien unterliegt und gegebenenfalls personen­bezogene Daten erhebt. Weitere Informationen finden Sie in unserer Daten­schutz­erklärung.


Participation campaign of the Körberstiftung

The spread of the coronavirus poses major political, social and personal challenges for everyone. But at some point the pandemic will be over. How will the crisis be spoken of, how will the memory be preserved? The digital coronarchive –  founded by the Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) and the universities of Hamburg and Gießen – and the Körber Stiftung are inviting all children and young people to take part in a competition and document how the corona crisis has changed their everyday lives. All submitted contributions will be transferred to the coronarchive. In addition, the Körber Stiftung will award ten book prizes for the best entries and present the winners and their topics. Children and young people up to the age of 21 were able to take part. The closing date for entries was 15 May 2020.

Read more in the press release in the RUB news portal or here.

More than 1,500 children and young people took part nationwide. The jury awarded 50 book prizes among the 1,120 entries. The prize-winning entries can be found on the website of the Körber-Stiftung.



The coronarchiv in the press


Lectures

  • Das coronarchiv – Eine Dokumentation der Gegenwart für Geschichte(n) von morgen, Online-Event, 09.07.2020
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  • The coronarchive: Become a Part of History, Lecture, DWIH New York (online), 25.06.2020
     
  • coronarchiv, Colloquium of the Chairs for Early Modern History, Modern History with a focus on the history of Eastern Europe and Modern and Contemporary History, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), 24.06.2020
     
  • "Sharing is caring!" – The German coronarchiv project 2020, Lecture, International Federation for Public History (online), 20.05.2020