Abstract
Since the 1970s, school lessons at the Humboldt University in Berlin have been recorded on video in a studio set up for this purpose. With the help of the German Research Foundation (DFG), approximately 100 lesson recordings can now be restored and processed at the Humboldt University in Berlin, which are no longer available in a common 1-inch format and are threatened by decay. In a pilot project funded by the Stiftung Aufarbeitung (Foundation for Reappraisal), three history lessons documented on video were initially digitised; among them was one recorded in 1977 with a school class from Köpenick on the subject of "Securing the State Border on 13 August 1961". It was possible to identify and interview the pupils and teachers of the recording. Together with the FWU (Film in Wissenschaft und Unterricht) Munich and the Stiftung Aufarbeitung (Foundation for Reappraisal), it was possible to enrich all the material on a DVD with detailed background material, which also includes teacher handouts and teaching suggestions as well as integrating background literature. In the research project approved by the DFG for two years, the video material is to be saved on currently popular media, processed and made available to the scientific public on the Internet. In a subsequently planned project, these are to be compared with West German teaching recordings as examples.
