Donations
The Theodor Fontane Archive is continuously expanding its holdings through acquisitive activities. In order to add to the extensive manuscript collection or to be able to acquire particularly valuable collection objects, we rely on your support.
Please contact us if you would like to support the Theodor Fontane Archive – be it with monetary donations or a donated item. We would be happy to discuss the procedure with you.
If you would like to get involved not only financially, but also ideally, you can do this as a member of our Friends’ Association.
Your donation makes this possible
In April 2016, the Theodor Fontnae Archive was able to acquire eighteen of Theodor Fontanes letters to his wife Emilie. The archive could thereby add valuable pieces to its collection of marital correspondence.
The acquired letters date from the last ten years of Fontane’s life, a period from which no originals were previously known, only transcripts. Through the purchase, the letters are now available for research, which until then had to rely on frequently unreliable transcripts.
Gotthart Erler compiled Theodor and Emilie’s lovliest letters, including these previously unpublished letters, for his recently published volume Die Zuneigung ist etwas Rätselvolles: Eine Ehe in Briefen.
Donations - the essentials
On donations supporting charitable purposes (according to Abgabenordnung § 52), you can claim up to 20 percent of your income as tax-reducing extraordinary expenses (see § 10b EstG).
Simplified proof obligations for the finance bureau apply to donations up to 200 Euro and a remittance voucher suffices for this amount. For donations of 200.01 Euro or more, we can issue you adonation receipt (donation certificate).
Please contact us to coordinate the details.
Contact Person
Juliane Heilmann
Management of household and third-party funds
Tel:
+49 331 201 39-77
