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[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

Do you have the web addresses for the online catalogue(s)?
Any concrete info (author, title etc.)?

http://www.ub.hu-berlin.de/standorte/archiv/
I'm looking for Karl Leonard Falk's file. The article I found it referenced in didn't give a link or a way to find it at all (it just said it's in the University of Berlin's possession). I have the names of a textbook he wrote for HU and his doctoral dissertation, but I'm not particularly interested in the contents of either, per se, so much as the rest of his file (letters, apparently, details of his doings/travels when he was the Reich's pet American, etc.). Some of it only became available once the Berlin Wall fell, if that helps somehow.

Edit: Oops.
Berlin Universitatsbibliothek Archiv certified copies of official documentation of immatrikulation of Karl L. Falk No. 802 05-10-32; resume; travel records; employment record; diploma, records, and correspondence,commendations, requests, academic examinations

[Swatopluk]

I can't promise anything, esp. if it deals not with publications but personal material. In other words, it could be difficult to just walk in and grab it
With old material photocopying may very well be out of the question and if it is from the 20ies a lot may be handwritten in Sütterlin which I cannot read very well (or at all depending on the person writing).

Could you write a formal wish/request list about what and in what form you want? Maybe with a cover letter to the archivists?
If necessary (i.e. nobody at the archive speaking English) I could translate that for you.

I can PM you my email address, if necessary.

Again, no promises!

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

That you offered to help means more than enough, lol.

I can't promise anything, esp. if it deals not with publications but personal material. In other words, it could be difficult to just walk in and grab it
With old material photocopying may very well be out of the question and if it is from the 20ies a lot may be handwritten in Sütterlin which I cannot read very well (or at all depending on the person writing).

Could you write a formal wish/request list about what and in what form you want? Maybe with a cover letter to the archivists?
If necessary (i.e. nobody at the archive speaking English) I could translate that for you.

I can PM you my email address, if necessary.

Again, no promises!

It's from the 30s, since he didn't show up in Germany until 1933. And yeah, I'll do that, and thank you so much!

[Swatopluk]

Don't thank me before you get any results.
As fas as paper and handwriting is (are?) concerned there will not be much difference between the 20ies and 30ies. It will be quite frail and in Sütterlin (unless a typewriter was used). I have no problems with Fraktur type but Sütterlin looks like a seismogram to me in most cases.