The archive of the german johann strauss society (DJSG) in the state library records important growth. In the context of the johann strauss music days, DJSG chairman ingolf robberg presented three handwritten letters from waltz concerto king johann straub’s son to silvia pfister, director of the coburg state library.
This is just one of the letters – in it johann strauss deals with questions to the berlin publisher simrock about his opera "ritter pasman – excerpts known, the other two letters are unknown so far. The archives of the DJSG have been housed in the landesbibliothek since 1991 and are the only archives of the world’s twelve johann strauss societies that are open to the public.
The joint goal of the landesbibliothek and the german johann strauss society is to further enhance the value of the landesbibliothek coburg with the most important collection of original strauss materials outside austria.
In times of tight budgets, the german johann strauss society sees itself challenged to "demand the collection activity of the coburg state library within its framework with civic commitment." This was also the purpose of the purchase of these three manuscripts.
In addition, further strauss materials were donated by the DJSG for the collections of the coburg state library.