75 Years of Exile Archive
Opening of the upgraded permanent exhibition
“Exile. Experience and Testimony“

27 November 2024 // The German Exile Archive 1933–1945 of the German National Library is celebrating its 75th anniversary in 2024. These days it is committed more than ever to its educational founding impulse to counteract anti-Semitism, racism, nationalism and baiting, and to promote democratic values.

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Restitution of Stolberg-Wernigerode Library

21 November 2024 // In October 2024 the German Museum of Books and Writing at the German National Library returned three volumes from the Prince of Stolberg-Wernigerode Library to Prince Philipp of Stolberg-Wernigerode. These are two volumes of a Latin edition of Pliny the Younger’s Natural History from the 18th century and a book of instructions on the art of writing printed in Wernigerode in 1731.

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#everynamecounts challenge commemorates people stripped of their German citizenship

4 November 2024 // The German National Library’s German Exile Archive 1933–1945 and the Arolsen Archives are announcing a new #everynamecounts challenge. Volunteers can take part in the crowdsourcing initiative from 4 to 17 November 2024. The aim of the challenge is to digitize the so-called expatriation card file (Ausbürgerungskartei) – and raise awareness of the names and stories of people who were stripped of their German citizenship.

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Renovation work at the German National Library in Frankfurt am Main / Reading rooms temporarily closed

15 October 2024 // The issues desk of the German National Library's reading room in Frankfurt am Main is to be converted into a new service area.

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20th anniversary: German Book Prize novels now available for language research

10 October 2024 // The German National Library (DNB) and the Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS) are offering access to a special collection of contemporary German-language literature for researchers. To mark the 20th anniversary of the German Book Prize, linguistic patterns and structures in all 362 digitally available longlist titles can now be searched online in full text for for academic purposes.

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Disruptive elements: Jazz, protest and revolution

Jazz festival at the German National Library in Leipzig
20 to 22 September 2024

12 September 2024 // The German National Library in Leipzig is organising a jazz festival to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the Peaceful Revolution this autumn and to celebrate the donation of the Jazzwerkstatt archive to the German Museum of Books and Writing. The festival remembers the importance of music as a medium of resistance in the GDR.

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Archived press releases

Do you want to know more about the topics we have focused on in recent years? Or would you like to find out about past exhibitions and events? You can browse press releases from past years in our archive.

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