The digitalization of most documents began while Erich Loest was still alive, initiated by Siegfried Lokatis. The renowned censorship researcher and head of the Department of Book Science at the Institute for Communication and Media Studies of the University of Leipzig recognized the value of the documents for a pilot project of the Leipziger Land Cultural and Environmental Foundation. Several students reviewed the archive’s inventory, digitalized thousands of documents, and created an index of places, people, topics, and works. Additionally, on their website, they published the first evaluation of the files on the topics of State Security, censorship, Loest’s isolation and emigration, prison and rehabilitation, and his life in reunified Germany.