German university receives 15,000 recordings of the Rolling Stones as a donation.

University of Freiburg (southwestern Germany) received donated a collection of 15,000 recordings of the Rolling Stones, as well as tens of thousands of objects, books, newspaper articles and letters related to the band. The donation was made by the family of lawyer Reinhold Karpp (1946-2012) which brought the collection for five decades, said the Center for Popular Culture and Music (ZPKM), attached to the University of Freiburg. The documents will be filed and classified in Freiburg and in the coming years the public will have access to the collection.

Karpp kept his collection in his home near Bonn (West Germany), and after his death the objects were inherited by his family. Freiburg is the first university in the world with an archive of Rolling-Stones, according to the ZPKM, which was founded in 2014 from the file of the German traditional folk song (Deutsche Volkslieder Archiv) which originated a century earlier. The originated idea was to renew the tradition of that file and pursue it with a broader approach taking into account the international popular culture.