The 2015 report of the German National Library is now available. It summarises the important issues and projects, developments, facts and figures from the past year, ranging from the core areas of acquisitions, cataloguing, user services and preservation planning through to the central role of metadata. The introduction of the new RDA standard, the German-Israeli cooperation project on the digitisation of cultural assets and the work of the German Music Archive are among the key topics presented. There is also a review of the specialist and cultural activities of the German National Library, including its events and publications.

"The Quiet Volume" explores the tension that unites libraries around the world: the mixture of silence and concentration into which people immerse themselves in books in their own individual way. The visitors are seated in pairs in the reading room of the German National Library and become part of an interactive performance. Before them lies a pile of books; meanwhile ordinary library activities go on around them. Whispered and written instructions open up the pages of the books for them - allowing them to enjoy the intimate experience of reading in a unique new way.

Event organised by the Kulturamt (cultural office) of Frankfurt am Main in cooperation with the German National Library as part of literaTurm 2016

Times: Thursday, 2.6. and Friday, 3.6. 17:00-20:00 / Saturday, 4.6. 14:00-17:00 / Thursday, 9.6. and Friday, 10.6. 17:00-20:00 / Saturday, 11.6. 14:00-17:00
Duration: 60 minutes. Participation for two people every 20 minutes within the specified times - advance booking recommended.
Admission: EUR 6.00. Tickets from www.adticket.de

In the beginning was the Word. Found words and chanced upon words which serve as the raw material for pure poetry. "I collect words to make texts. I cut them out of brochures as material for these texts," says Herta Müller, explaining her process. The resulting word collages are poems of intense beauty, works of art of great linguistic and visual power. Concluding the literaTurm festival, Nobel literature laureate Herta Müller presents some of these together with her friend and companion, the poet and translator Ernest Wichner. (Photo: Paul Esser)

Event organised by the Kulturamt (cultural office) of Frankfurt am Main in cooperation with the German National Library as part of literaTurm 2016

Admission: EUR 10.00 / 8.00. Tickets from www.adticket.de

The art world knows her as the first wife of painter Max Ernst, as a muse of the Dadaists and Surrealists. However, Luise Straus-Ernst, born in 1893 as the daughter of a Jewish industrialist family in Cologne, was much more: art historian, author of short stories, reportage and novels, and a writer for radio in the early days of the medium. In 1933 she emigrated to Paris, in 1944 she was deported in one of the last transports to Auschwitz where she is presumed to have been murdered upon arrival.
Dr. Eva Weissweiler has traced the path of Luise Straus-Ernst and rediscovered the life and work of this fascinating woman.
Event organised by German Exile Archive 1933–1945 of the German National Library.

Admission is free, please register at: Ausstellungen-Frankfurt

How did Bambi get to Hollywood? How do you cure a book? What is the legacy of the polymath and librarian Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz? When was music recorded for the first time? And what does the future hold for paper in these times of digitisation? The answers to these and many other questions can be discovered in guided tours, lectures and exhibitions during the Long Night of the Sciences at the German National Library in Leipzig. The German Music Archive will be playing a historical gramophone and an automatic piano, and will be guiding music lovers through the development history of sound recordings and playback devices. The German Museum of Books and Writing will be showing young explorers how to write secret messages on paper.
The full programme: www.wissenschaftsnacht-leipzig.de
Admission is free of charge..