Team and Contact
Address
The building Dock 4 in the street Unteren Karlsstraße 4
Our address
documenta archiv
Untere Karlsstraße 4
D- 34117 Kassel
Billing address
documenta und Museum Fridericianum gGmbH
documenta archiv
Friedrichsplatz 18
D-34117 Kassel
Telephone
+49 561 70 72 73 100
Fax
+49 561 70 72 73 9
archiv[at]documenta.de
www.documenta-archiv.de
Disclaimer
The documenta archiv is part of the documenta und Museum Fridericianum gGmbH, a non-profit organization financed by the City of Kassel and the State of Hesse.
Bank Account
Kasseler Sparkasse
IBAN: DE70 5205 0353 0000 060082
SWIFT: HELADEF1KAS
Opening Hours
Reading Room
Tuesday
from 9.00 am til 7.00 pm
Wednesday to Friday
from 9.00 am til 4.00 pm
Records and Papers / Media Collection
Please send us a detailed written request to:
Records and papers
aktenarchiv@documenta.de
media collections
mediensammlung@documenta.de
Team
Head Office
Birgit Jooss is the director of the documenta archiv since 2016. She has studied art history, art education and history in Munich and completed her PhD on “Living Images” in 1998. From 2003 until 2005 she has also studied archival sciences in Potsdam.
She has worked at the Deutsches Historisches Museum in Berlin (1992), at the Museum Villa Stuck, Munich (1992–2002), at the Schloßmuseum Murnau (1997–2000), at the Institute of Art History at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich (2000–2007) and the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich (2003–2007). She was managing the Deutsches Kunstarchiv at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg from 2007 until 2015 and has been the director of the archives of the Akademie der Künste, Berlin in 2015.
From 2000 until today she is also active as a college lecturer (Universität München, Universität Nürnberg-Erlangen, Fachhochschule Potsdam, Universität Göttingen, Kunsthochschule Kassel).
Dr. Birgit Jooss
Director
+49 561 70727-3100
archivdirektion[at]documenta.de
Sigrid Heisel-Hennchen
Personal Assistant to the Director and Administration
+49 561 70727-3100
archivdirektion[at]documenta.de
Martin Groh
Scientific Research
+49 561 70727-3107
wissenschaft[at]documenta.de
Natalie Schmidt
Reading Room
+49 561 70727-3112
lesesaal[at]documenta.de
Alexandra Winterhoff
Student Assistant
+49 561 70727-3101
archiv[at]documenta.de
Records and Papers
Saskia Mattern
Records and Papers
+49 561 70727-3102
aktenarchiv[at]documenta.de
Susanne Rübsam
Records and Papers
+49 561 70727-3104
aktenarchiv[at]documenta.de
Media Collections
Alexander Zeisberg
Media Collection
+49 561 70727-3111
mediensammlung[at]documenta.de
Michael Gärtner
Public Relations and Media Collection
+49 561 70727-3106
mediensammlung[at]documenta.de
Karoline Achilles
Student Assistant
+49 561 70727-3105
mediensammlung[at]documenta.de
Maximilian Preuss
Student Assistant
+49 561 70727-3106
mediensammlung[at]documenta.de
Art Library
Anja Ziegler
Art Library
+49 561 70727-3108
bibliothek[at]documenta.de
Carl-Emanuel Fischer
Student Assistant
+49 561 70727-3108
bibliothek[at]documenta.de
Conservation
Melissa Köhler (parental leave deputyship)
Media Conservation
+49 561 70727-3117
restaurierung[at]documenta.de
Assoziated and Projects
Dr. Harald Kimpel
Associated Scholar
Laura Diermann
Student Assistant "exhibition in the Deutsches Historisches Museum"
+49 561 70727-3113
Directions
The documenta archiv is situated at the Untere Karlsstraße 4, Kassel within the building of the Kulturhaus Dock4. This former school is a listed building. A step free access is at the court yard side of the building.
With public transport:
Take trams 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, RT1, RT4 up to Friedrichsplatz. Walk across Friedrichplatz towards the Museum Fridericianum. Turn left into Untere Karlsstraße which is the road before the museum. The first building on the right hand side is the Kulturhaus Dock4.
By car:
Coming either from the highway A7 or A44 via junction A49 towards Kassel. Take junction “Auestadion / City Center” follow the road signs towards the center of the city. Turn left after the theater (Staatstheater) into the road Oberste Gasse. After a 100 meters turn left into a small road Seidenes Strümpfchen, at the end of the road turn left again and you have arrived in Untere Karlsstraße.
Parking options
There is a car park at Friedrichsplatz, with an entry at Frankfurter Straße towards the Fridericianum. After the Cine-Star use the left hand drive to reach the underground car park. Another entry is situated between the Staatstheater and the documenta hall, reachable via Du-Ry-Straße, take Brüderstraße or Steinweg.
Scientific board
An appointment of a scientific board is currently in a planning process.