Web Address: http://www.leuphana.de/tmail

The work is derived from a larger collection of over 4,000 intelligence documents from State Archives in Europe and North America from the inter-war period. The collection contains daily reports and correspondances between 1915 and 1943, forming a vast communication network in which the official traces and observations of the individual are cross-referenced to historical events, international personalities and geographic locations.

In the World-Wide-Web version called "T.Mail", a selection of hundreds of documents are available as navigatable HTML pages using the "Petal" browser developed by the Department of Culturual Studies at the University of Lüneburg. The information is available through multiple categorical menues, through marked text in the document scans, and through a flash geographic time-line display.

A project by Arnold Dreyblatt
Produced in collaboration with students of the Department of Cultural Studies of the University of Lüneburg, Germany.

T.Mail was developed and produced during a workshop from 2003-2005 under the direction of Martin Warnke and Arnold Dreyblatt.

Content and Overall Concept: Arnold Dreyblatt
Technical Assistance, Hypertext: Carmen Wedemeyer
Flash Animation: Olaf Krafft

Participants in the Development Group 2004-2005: Jasmin Bodmann, Edith Schiele, Annette Gast, Verena Holz, Martina Mennerich, Beate Rullik, and many other students from earlier semesters.

The Software used in the production of this website was develped by Martin Warnke, Christian Terstegge, Carmen Wedemeyer at the University of Lüneburg in a research project on documentation methodologies for contemporary art which resulted in an XML-schema (PeTAL, Picture Text AnnotationLanguage), an editor (PictLinker), a Browser (Petal Reader) and an XLST conversion routine to the WWW.