Fantastic library Wetzlar

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Fantastic Library (2009)

The Fantastic Library Wetzlar , which opened in September 1989, is now the world's largest publicly accessible fantastic library with a stock of over 280,000 titles (as of May 6, 2018).

Until February 2006 the Fantastic Library was supported by the city of Wetzlar , the Fantastic Support Group and the Fantastic Foundation. On February 14, 2006, the Fantastic Library was transferred to a new sponsorship. A foundation under civil law with the name “Fantastic Library Wetzlar” was established. The founder and head of the library is the author Thomas Le Blanc .

Duration

In part of the library

Due to its archival mandate, the institution collects everything that has appeared in the fantastic literary genres of science fiction , fantasy , classic fantasy , horror , utopia , travel and adventure literature , fairy tales , sagas and myths in German. It also includes the relevant secondary literature as well as magazines, newspaper clippings, theses and authors' bequests in its collection and makes its holdings available for scientific and journalistic purposes in a reference collection.

The book inventory also includes some special collections such as the entire inventory of utopian-fantastic literature from the GDR , the documenta collection from Orwell's year 1984 as well as rarities from the classic German-language fantasy and travel and adventure literature .

job

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technical employee

The library cooperates in its work with universities and literary societies, it is active in teacher training and teacher training, organizes scientific conferences, workshops and seminars and conducts its own research in which the information reservoir of the book inventory is processed and used to offer solutions to current problems.

The library is active in advising publishers and authors and is in charge of the annual Fantastic Prize of the city of Wetzlar , which is endowed with 4,000 euros. In 2010 the library was awarded the Hartmut Vogel Prize for Literature Mediation from the Working Group on Literary Societies and Memorials (ALG).

Publications

The library publishes its own series of scientific publications. Over 90 volumes can be ordered on the institution's homepage. To support pupils and students, the Fantastic Library in Wetzlar launched the Young Fantastic Edition . Shortest stories have been published in the Fantastic Miniatures series since August 2011, most of the volumes published to date by Thomas Le Blanc.

Days of the Fantastic

The Wetzlarer Tage der Fantastik , which has taken place every September since 1981, is devoted to changing topics from the fantastic literary genres. In addition to the scientific field, a broad audience is addressed who would like to deal with the fantastic. The aim of the conference is in particular to link the field of literature with other disciplines.

literature

  • Stefanie Guthörl: Public relations and program work of a special scientific library using the example of the Fantastic Library in Wetzlar . Series of publications and materials from the Fantastic Library in Wetzlar, Volume 2. Phantastik in Wetzlar eV, Wetzlar 1993.
  • Jörg Weigand : Ten years of the “Fantastic Library” in Wetzlar . In: From the second-hand bookshop . No. 8 (1999), pp. 479-481.
  • Bettina Twrsnick: It shouldn't cost anything. The fantastic library in Wetzlar . In: bub. Library and information forum . No. 4. Vol. 52 (2000), pp. 315-317.
  • Ulrich Blode: The fantastic library in Wetzlar . In: The other Arcadia / On the way in the Universum Fantasticum. die horen - magazine for literature, art and criticism . No. 217, vol. 50 (2005). Pp. 205-207.
  • Ulrich Blode: The fantastic library in Wetzlar. Transport systems of the future . In: fantastic! . No. 18 (2005), pp. 45-49.
  • Ulrich Blode: The Eternal Library, The Fantastic Library Wetzlar . In: fantastic! . No. 26 (2007), pp. 36-40.
  • Klaus Erichsen: The fantastic library in Wetzlar: An inventory . In: Hermann Ritter, Michael Scheuch (eds.): Magira, Yearbook for Fantasy (2005) . Fantasy Club eV, Marburg 2005, pp. 223-228.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fantastic miniatures

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