Press articles

As a form of source material,
we also collect press articles about the choirs, individual choir members, choir directors and other persons associated with the choir.
The selection is based on free and complete availability for the Boys' Choir Archive.

We consider press articles concerning the choir's founding and, if applicable, its dissolution or discontinuation and existence to be important. Articles about the choir's activities are only included depending on their significance.

Additional criteria are the relevance to the choir and choir director as determined by us. The full article is not displayed, only the necessary source information.

Important!

For many years, the Boys' Choir Archive has been offering its readers not only current but also archived references to publications online. However, in many areas, the state of knowledge has changed or developed since the original publication. In criminal cases, for example, initial suspicions may turn out to be false in subsequent court proceedings.

In science, the state of research is constantly evolving; a text about choir members from 1980 may now be outdated. This also applies to topics of contemporary history: reporting on current cultural events is often later supplemented by the findings of historians, placed in a different context or even refuted.

In addition, language usage and some journalistic standards have changed since the Boys' Choir Archive was founded; terms and phrases that were common in the past are no longer used today for good and understandable reasons. This applies in particular to statements that are now considered discriminatory or racist. We believe that all these articles should be viewed as documents of contemporary history in the context of the time in which they were written, and therefore leave them unchanged in form and language.

As our editorial systems have changed in recent years, some interactive formats may no longer work in older texts. If we become aware of clear errors that were overlooked at the time of initial publication, we will indicate this clearly with a note below the text in question.

In addition, new findings may lead to a note in individual cases, for example if a suspicion has subsequently proved to be unfounded. If you have any questions about this, please feel free to write to us here.

We do not make any adjustments to newspaper articles, as this would expose us to suspicion of manipulation.