Deutsches Rundfunkarchiv

The DRA was founded in 1952 as the German Broadcasting Sound Archive and was renamed the German Broadcasting Archive (Deutsches Rundfunkarchiv) in 1963. Later, in 1994, the radio and television broadcasting archive from the former GDR was incorporated into its Berlin location. Its comprehensive collection includes audio and video, documentary records, printed media and historical objects encompassing significant parts of the audio-visual tradition in Germany and reflecting the development of German broadcasting before 1945 as well as the radio and television of the former GDR. It is not only responsible for preserving audiovisual material of historical value, but for transferring the content of discs, analogue tapes, DATs and other aging media into the digital domain.