Through interviews with contemporary witnesses, the knowledge of the population in the time the pictures were made should be archived for the successive generations. Those interviews have to be conducted fairly timely, because as the witnesses grow older the recollection of certain memories gets even more difficult.
At the Storytelling Café, the Karl Max Kessler Archive invites residents of the valley to share memories, stories and photographs. In an open atmosphere, people talk about life in the Kleinwalsertal – past and present. The aim is to preserve this knowledge, digitise it and make it visible as a cultural memory.
At the Storytelling Café, the Karl Max Kessler Archive invites people of all generations to share personal stories, memories and photographs. Oral accounts are brought together with images from the archive and open up conversations about life in the Kleinwalsertal – past and present. In this way, memories are preserved, passed on and kept alive as part of our cultural memory.
