Research for this article was carried out as part of the research
project “knowledge&museum: archive -exhibit - evidence” funded
by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)
(license number 01UB0909). We are grateful to the BMBF for
funding this project. We thank the Deutsches Literaturarchiv and its
literature museums, especially Prof. Dr. Heike Gfrereis, and the ITSupport
of the Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach, especially
Andreas Sobotka. We also thank our student assistants, Linda Greci
and Marie-Luise Saile. And last but not least: research would not
have been possible without the visitors who agreed to participate in
these studies.