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The Brenner-Archives contains about 190 literary estates, partial literary estates and collections mainly from writers, but also from philosophers, musicians and artists as well as thousands of photos of figures such as Karl Kraus and Georg Trakl. Its library comprises about 30.000 books (many of them from the libraries of people whose literary remains are preserved there) and over 300 sets of periodicals of historical and contemporary interest. The archival work involves making literary remains accessible for research but it also bears upon completing the collections by acquiring new research materials. Various conservational measures are crucial to preserving the materials collected in the Archives for coming generations. This involves conserving the original papers as well as digitalising them. From the beginning the Brenner-Archives has existed to facilitate research. It prepares sources for scholars by
In addition the Brenner-Archives hosts conferences and other events. They are mainly organized by the "Literaturhaus am Inn", which is a part of the Brenner-Archives, and by the Brenner-Archives’ supporting association, known as "Brenner-Forum".
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Collecting, organizing and conserving literary estates with a view to increasing public interest in literary-historical interrelations within the scholarly community as well as the general public is the Archives primary aim. Its various publications, including for example, editions of literary works by Tyrolean writers such as Josef Leitgeb or the “Brenner”-author Carl Dallago present them to new readerships and complement the scholarly research preformed at there.