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The Orff-Zentrum München, Staatsinstitut für Forschung und Dokumentation (Orff Center Munich, State Institute for Research and Documentation), opened its doors on 10 July 1990, eight years after the death of Carl Orff (b. 10 July 1895; d. 29 March 1982).
In April 1986, the council of ministers resolved, on the initiative of the composer's widow Liselotte Orff and a petition from the Foundation, to ensure the creation and operation of a state-funded institute devoted to the composer. In return, as per agreement of 3 June 1988, the Carl Orff Foundation placed the composer's artistic estate on permanent loan to the State of Bavaria. As part of a depository agreement, the musical manuscripts (i.e. the fair copies of Orff's works) were handed over to the Bavarian State Library for cataloging, preservation, and safekeeping.
From the autumn of 1988 until the end of 1989, the building chosen to house the Orff-Zentrum München, Kaulbachstrasse 16, was restored and finally ready for occupation in January 1990. The documents from the composer´s estate (letters and papers relating to his life, his works and their performance) were handed over to the Orff-Zentrum München on permanent loan in the spring of 1990. Next began the phase of building up the Institute (under the management of Hans Jörg Jans, 1989-2002).
Since 1 October 2002, the Orff-Zentrum München has been managed by the musicologist Dr. Thomas Rösch.
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The building has a total of ten working and archival rooms, a library, an auditorium (the teatrino), and an inviting garden, thereby offering ideal conditions for a research center and meeting place.
Built in 1931/1932, the house served to accommodate the Günther School, a training center for gymnastics, rhythm, music, and dance that Carl Orff had founded with Dorothee Günther in 1924 and that had witnessed the emergence of his innovative approach to music education, the Schulwerk (1931-1934). Several months after the school was forced to close, the building was destroyed by a bomb on 7 January 1945.
In 1951, the manufacturer Hermann Fink finally purchased the destroyed property and erected a new building, the layout of the rooms being modelled closely on the original construction.
After being bought by the Free State of Bavaria in 1965, the building housed the Bavarian State Television and Film Academy from 1966 to 1988. In the autumn of 1988, restoration work began to adapt it for use by the newly-founded Orff-Zentrum München.
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