Archiv Grünes Gedächtnis

For the past 20 years, Archiv Grünes Gedächtnis has served as the archive of the transnational Green group in the European Parliament. The file records of the Green group are now catalogued and accessible.

Life stories conducted by historians and archivists are the nucleus of oral history. The workshop "Experiences in Oral History” dealt with the question, how the handling of these interviews as historical sources could be improved.

Founded 35 years ago, in January 1980, the new Green party Die Grünen successfully entered the German Bundestag in March 1983. Ten years later, in April 1993, Die Grünen and Bündnis 90, a party founded in East Germany in 1990, merged to form Bündnis 90/Die Grünen (Alliance 90/The Greens). Data pertaining to all party conventions and key decisions, as well as all elections to the Federal Executive Board, are listed here; the texts of all platforms are available for download.

The collection of Green Memory Archive is structured as personal files, party files of the federal and European parliamentary group levels through and Green International files.

Call for Papers: Transformations of the Ecology Movement. From the 'Limits to Growth' to the Rio Conference. Deadline is the 15th June 2014

The archive is divided into three main sections: The historical archive, the archive library and the collections.

The Petra Kelly archive preserves the estate of Petra Karin Kelly (1947 - 1992) and collects materials relating to her life and work. Almost all of Kelly's writings are in the collection, as well as numerous materials relevant to the history of the Green Party, the international peace movement for disarmament and against nuclear weapons, human rights and liberation movements.