The media issues area in the Frankfurt reading room will be renovated and updated starting from 18 October 2024, with the work set to continue until the end of March 2025.
Exhibition “Exile. Experience and Testimony” to close temporarily
The permanent exhibition “Exile. Experience and Testimony” will be closed from 21 October to 4 December 2024 while the area is being redesigned. We look forward to welcoming you again from December.
We modernise for you
in Leipzig!
From October 2023 expected until the end of February 2025 construction work will take place in the Leipzig building. This will impact user services, e.g. by making it necessary to close some of the reading rooms.
In 2025, the Zugang Gestalten conference will take place at the German National Library! The 15th edition of the conference will take place from 23 to 24 October 2025 – and in Leipzig for the first time. The international conference series highlights topics that concern us as cultural heritage institutions. The main topic in 2025 is artificial intelligence.
The German Museum of Books and Writing is celebrating its 140th birthday
published 29.10.2024
Photomontage: Lumalenscape
The German Museum of Books and Writing is celebrating its 140th birthday. The Deutsche Buchgewerbemuseum (German Book Trade Museum) was founded on 29 October 1884 by leading cultural figures and entrepreneurs active in Leipzig's book industry. On adding the Heinrich Klemm collection to its holdings, the museum became the custodian of one of the most important collections of incunabula. The threat of closure caused by inflation in the 1920s was averted thanks to a generous artist’s donation from Paul Klee, Oskar Kokoschka and Käthe Kollwitz. The museum was integrated into the Deutsche Bücherei in 1950.
Podcast “Augenrausch“ – Episode 5 with Anna Haifisch online
published 25.10.2024
Drawing: Henning Wagenbreth
In episode 5 of our podcast “AugenRausch”, we talk to Leipzig-based illustrator Anna Haifisch. The Leipzig-based cartoonist currently has an exhibition at the Hamburg Museum of Arts and Design has already supplied artworks for the Museum of Modern Art, the “Guardian”, "Die Zeit" and many others. In the podcast, she talks about her exhibition in Strasbourg, mice, inspiration, and her role models, who range from Alfred J. Quark to the French cartoonist Lewis Trondheim.
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