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Austria

Österreichische Nationalbibliothek
Musiksammlung

Josefsplatz 1
Postfach 308
A-1015 Vienna
Telephone:+(222)53410315
Fax: +(222)53410310
Holdings include: Music manuscripts of Kurt Weill.

Wiener Stadt- und Landesbibliothek
Rathaus
1082 Vienna
Telephone:+(1)4000-84920
Fax: +(1)4000-7219

Germany

Die Stiftung Archiv der Akademie der Künste
Hanseatenweg 10
10557 Berlin
Telephone: +(30)390-0070
Holdings include: Sammlung Ferruccio Busoni, Hermann-Scherchen-Archiv, Sammlung H.H. Stuckenschmidt, Heinz-Tiessen-Archiv, Sammlung Lion Feuchtwanger, Georg-Kaiser-Archiv, Walter-Mehring-Archiv, Sammlung Roma Bahn, Carl-Ebert-Archiv, Valeska-Gert-Archiv, Alfred-Kerr-Archiv, Sammlung Kate Kühl, Sammlung Carola Neher, Sammlung Max Reinhardt, Willy-Trenk-Trebitsch-Archiv, Sammlung Theater im Exil 1933-1945. Holdings described in Die Bestände des Archivs und der Bibliothek der Akademie der Künste (Berlin, 1985).

Bertolt-Brecht-Archiv
(Stiftung Archiv der Akademie der Künste)
Brecht-Weigel-Gedenkstätte
125 Chausseestrasse 126
10115 Berlin
Telephone: +(30)2823125-03
Holdings described in Ramthun, Herta. Bertolt-Brecht-Archiv: Bestandsverzeichnis des literarischen Nachlasses. Berlin: Aufbau, 1969.

Theatermuseum des Instituts für Theater-, Film- und Fernsehwissenschaft der Universität zu Köln
Schloss Wahn
Burgallee 2
51127 Cologne
Telephone:+(2203)600920
Fax: +(2203)61038
Holdings include: Bibliothek, Programmheft-Archiv, Kritiken-Sammlungen, Bildsammlungen, Spezialsammlungen.

Kurt-Weill-Zentrum
Feininger-Haus
Ebertallee
06846 Dessau
Telephone: +(340)619 595
Fax: +(340)619 595

Schiller-Nationalmuseum/Deutsches Literaturarchiv
Schillerhöhe 8
Postfach 57
71672 Marbach am Neckar
Telephone: +(7144) 6061

United States

Beinecke Library
Yale University
P.O. Box 208240
New Haven, CT 06520-8240
Telephone: (203) 432-2972
Holdings include the Langston Hughes Papers, Elmer Rice Papers, Theatre Guild Papers.

Music Library
Yale University

P.O. Box 208240
New Haven, CT 06520-8240
Telephone: (203) 432-0497/432-0492
Fax: (203) 432-7339
Holdings include the Weill-Lenya Papers, sometimes known as the Weill-Lenya Archive, or WLA: music manuscripts, correspondence, scripts, writings of Weill and Lenya, photos, etc. The collection is described in Nesnow, Adrienne, comp. MSS 30: The Papers of Kurt Weill and Lotte Lenya. New Haven: [Yale University Music Library], 1984. The collection is accessible Monday-Friday; appointments should be made in advance. The Music Library is located at 120 High Street, between Elm and Wall Streets, on the main floor of the Sterling Memorial Library. Trains from New York City to New Haven leave hourly from Grand Central Station; the trip takes about two hours.

New York Public Library of the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center
40 Lincoln Center Plaza
New York, NY 10023-7488
Telephone: (212) 870-1630
Fax: (212) 787-3852
Holdings include: Holograph score of Die sieben Todsünden and Down in the Valley; large collections of relevant materials are in the Music Division and in the Billy Rose Theatre Collection.

Sibley Music Library (Eastman School of Music)
27 Gibbs Street
Rochester, NY 14604
Telephone: (716) 274-1350
Fax: (716) 274-1380
Holdings include the Universal Edition-Kurt Weill Archives: Holograph scores, correspondence, and other musical and textual materials pertaining to Weill’s European works on long-term loan from Universal Edition.

Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center
University of Texas
P.O. Box 7219
Austin, TX 78713-7219
Telephone: (512) 471-8944
Fax: (512) 471-9646
Holdings include: Maxwell Anderson Papers, Samuel Nathaniel Behrman Papers, Norman Bel Geddes designs, Ben Hecht manuscripts (mostly fiction), Elmer Rice Papers. The repository’s theater holdings are described in The Library Chronicle 25, no. 1.

Library of Congress
Music Division
Washington, D.C. 20540
Telephone: (202) 707-5503
Fax: (202) 707-0621
Holdings include: Holograph score of Ofrahs Lieder, sketches for The Eternal Road, and the Ira Gershwin correspondence, in addition to a large collection of published materials. Much relevant material is located in the Music Division as well as other divisions of the library.

Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research
816 State Street
Madison, WI 53706
Telephone: (608) 264-6466
Fax: (608) 264-6472
Holdings include: Papers of Moss Hart, Marc Blitzstein, Dwight Deere Wiman, and the Playwrights’ Producing Company.

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