From October 2023 to October 2024, 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.
The German National Library in Leipzig will be extended - the fifth time in the location's history. Architects are currently planning the building as part of an international competition. Find out more about the topic and the milestones.
Over a century of the German National Library - over 100 reasons to celebrate the nation's cultural memory! Find out more about this topic and what else was important in 2023
The guest invited to have her say in the third and latest episode of the podcast released by the German Museum of Books and Writing is Leipzig-based illustrator Gerda Raidt.
Following an initial grounding in fine art at Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design in Halle, the Berlin-born illustrator turned to applied art and studied with Volker Pfüller at the Academy of Fine Arts in Leipzig. Since then, she has created an increasingly diverse body of work consisting of dozens of books of her own design, beginning with her picture book ”Matrosentango“ (Sailor's Tango), which was highly commended in the ”Most Beautiful German Books“ competition.
Free voyage ahead! From today, the exhibition ship „MS Wissenschaft“ is sailing through German cities. For the Science Year 2024 on the theme of "Freedom", the German National Library is represented several times in the floating exhibition with the Exile Archive and the Museum of Books and Writing. We show how creative people in the GDR used their art to fight for freedom, how book printing paved the way for freedom of opinion and democratic movements, celebrate the Basic Law as the foundation of our democracy, and hear from Holocaust survivors Inge Auerbacher and Kurt S. Maier , whose memories underline the importance of our basic democratic rights. The DNB team is looking forward to the events on the ship.
The German National Library's collections are now also available to young people aged 16 and over. The minimum age was previously 18 years. By lowering the age limit, the DNB aims to make its services and resources available to an even wider circle of users and interested parties. Events specially geared towards this young age group are currently being developed.
Our popular transparent library bag, notebooks, T-shirts, key rings, pencil cases and much more – you will find plenty of useful and attractive merchandising articles in the German National Library's online shop. The shop is also the place to go if you want to buy our publications, exhibition catalogues and postcards.Come and visit us – we hope you will have fun browsing!
This is us! 75 years of Basic Law. A publication history
Foyer presentation and virtual exhibition at the German National Library’s German Museum of Books and Writing
From 9 May to 17 November 2024 Virtual exhibition starting on May 1st
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