Peter Altekrüger

• Politics and political parties in Paraguay
• Twentieth-century Paraguayan history
• The world of books in Latin America
• Library acquisition issues

• Argentine Popular Culture: Theater and Literary Periodicals of the Early Twentieth Century

  Between 1910 and 1940 there were a large number of journals in Argentina that published entire plays and novels in each issue. Categorized as“literatura popular,” they were only rarely collected by libraries at the time and have previously been unavailable to scholarship. Due to the poor paper quality, these journals are now threatened by decay. More than6,500 issues of over 200 periodicals have been collected thus far. The project's goal is to complete, catalog and digitize the collection. 

• Chaco War Collection 

  The Chaco War between Bolivia and Paraguay (1932-1935) is a research topic that has so far attracted little attention, not least due to insufficient research material. TheIAI intends to continue to expand itsextensive Bolivian and Paraguayan holdings on this subject and to make as much available in digital form as possible. The collection is divided into three categories: the territorial conflicts between Bolivia and Paraguay leading up to the outbreak of hostilities, the Chaco War period, and the subsequent international peace process.
   

Monographs and Editions

• Una excursión al colorido mundo de la novela popular española: la colección Fernando Eguidazu, Musser, R. / Altekrüger,  P. (Eds.). Berlin, Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, 2021.
• Ganoven, Gauchos und Gesänge. Die Biblioteca criolla: Eine Geschichte des Sammelns und Forschens, Berlin 2015 (co-edited with Katja Carrillo Zeiter)
• De amor, crimen y cotidianidad. Revistas teatrales y colecciones de novelas cortas argentinas del Instituto Ibero-Americano, Altekrüger, P. / Carrillo Zeiter, Katja (Eds.). Berlin: Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, 2014.
• Von Liebe, Mord und Alltag. Die Sammlung argentinischer Theater- und Romanzeitschriften des Ibero-Amerikanischen Instituts, Berlin 2014 (co-edited with Katja Carillo Zeiter)

Articles and contributions in books

• De un tesoro que quería irse a Berlín, In: Musser, Ricarda / Altekrüger, Peter (Eds.): Una excursión al colorido mundo de la novela popular española: la colección Fernando Eguidazu. Berlin: Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, 2021: 13-17.
• The Librarian's Treasure Hunt: Acquisition Trips to Latin America and the Caribbean. (together with Ricarda Musser), In: Krentz, J. / Williams, G. (Eds.): Latin American Collection Concepts. Essays on Libraries, Collaborations and new Approaches. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2019, p. 50-61.
• Jede Sammlung hat ihren Anfang, manchmal auch mehrere…, In: Altekrüger, P. / Carrillo Zeiter, K. (Eds.): Von Liebe Mord und Alltag. Die Sammlung argentinischer Theater- und Romanzeitschriften des Ibero-Amerikanischen Instituts. Berlin: Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, 2014: 7-11
• Toda colección tiene su comienzo, a veces también varios…, In: Altekrüger, P. / Carrillo Zeiter, K. (Eds.): De amor, crimen y cotidianidad. Revistas teatrales y colecciones de novelas cortas argentinas del Instituto Ibero-Americano. Berlin: Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut, 2014: 7-11

Consulting for the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation)

Assessments of DFG library and publication projects

Committees

• Since 2009: member of the network direction of the Gemeinsamer Bibliotheksverbund, GBV (Common Library Network) as a representative of the specialized libraries
• 2010-2015: member of the Ausschuss für Wissenschaftliche Bibliotheken und Informationssysteme, AWBI (Committee for Academic Libraries and Information Systems) of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation)
• 2006-2015: member of the Unterausschuss für Überregionale Literaturversorgung des Bereiches LIS der DFG (Subcommittee for National Research Literature Supply in the Academic Library Services and Information Systems Department of the DFG)
• 2006-2009: member of the experts' group on acquisitions and collections development at the Deutsche Bibliotheksverband (German Library Association)
• 2003-2006: board member of REDIAL (Red Europea de Información y Documentación sobre América Latina)

Professional Associations

• VdB – Verein deutscher Bibliothekare (Association of German Librarians)
• SALALM - Seminar on the Acquisition of Latin American Library Materials

• Since 2000: Library director and deputy director of theIbero-American Institute
• 1997-1999: Library services director at the Ibero-American Institute
• 1996-1997: Research associate at the library of the Ibero-American Institute, deputy director of library services
• 1993-1995: Training program for senior-level library service at the Ibero-American Institute and the Cologne University of Applied Sciences
• 1990-1993: Library services/ audio library employee at the Ibero-American Institute
• 1986-1987: Studied for two semesters at the University of Havana, Cuba, with a concentration in Latin American history and Spanish
• 1984-1989: Master's program in Latin American studies, history and contemporary history at Rostock University
• *1961: Lutherstadt Wittenberg