Böhme built up a new collection, which was moved in more than 30 book boxes to Seeberg Castle in the then Reichsgau Sudetenland, Regierungsbezirk Eger [de], but has since been lost.

[6] After World War II, Kurt Peters, a dancer, dance educator and publicist, continued the tradition and rebuilt the archive in a private initiative, first in Hamburg from 1948 as Deutsches Tanzarchiv,[3][5] and from 1965 in Cologne.

[2][5] These more than 400 personal archives include,[1] among others, extensive holdings on dancers, choreographers and dance educators such as Isadora, Elizabeth, Anna and Lisa Duncan,[7] Mary Wigman,[8] Harald Kreutzberg, Kurt Jooss, Yvonne Georgi, Dore Hoyer, Vera Skoronel, Birgit Åkesson, Claire Eckstein, Hertha Feist, Lotte Goslar, Niddy Impekoven, Jo Mihaly, Trudi Schoop, Alexander and Clotilde Sacharoff,[9] Leonide Massine,[10] La Jana, Oda Schottmüller, Natascha Trofimowa, Konstanze Vernon and Vivienne Newport, as well as of writers and critics such as Fritz Böhme, Max Niehaus, Georg Zivier and Horst Koegler.

[1][15] The library contains a reference collection of currently about 13,000 titles[3] on all topics of dance from Germany and abroad, including rare books since the 16th century and numerous dissertations.

[1] The stock of the reference video library comprises over 6,500 productions (as of 2021) from various categories such as dance films, musicals, documentaries as well as studio and stage recordings.

Bequests related to dance by visual artists such as Ernst Oppler, Arthur Grunenberg [de] and by Raymond Puccinelli are also part of the collection.