Christiane Raabe

Christiane Raabe (born December 7, 1962 in Ludwigsburg ) is a German librarian .

Life

She grew up as the daughter of the literary scholar and librarian Paul Raabe in Marbach am Neckar and Wolfenbüttel . After studying painting at the HBK Braunschweig and history at the TU Braunschweig , she worked as a research assistant at the Friedrich Meinecke Institute at the Free University of Berlin and did her doctorate in 1992 in the subject of medieval history on the Cistercian monastery Mariental near Helmstedt . She then worked as a publishing editor at KG Saur Verlag in Munich .

Since 2007 she has been the director of the International Youth Library in Munich. She has founded many international projects, such as the White Ravens Festival for international children's and youth literature , and has curated numerous exhibitions, including a large exhibition on international fairy tale illustration. In 2014 she was awarded the medal for special services to Bavaria in a United Europe . She is also on the board of the International Youth Library Foundation, the Binette Schroder Foundation for the cultural promotion of international children's book illustration and Chairwoman of the Ellis Kaut Foundation. Since 2015 she has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , since 2017 also Chairwoman of the Board of the Society of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, and since 2016 member of the Advisory Board for Literature and Translation Funding of the Goethe Institute . She is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Yearbook of the Society for Child and Youth Literature Research (GKJF) and the Advisory Board for Book Studies at the LMU Munich . She was also a member of the jury for the Bavarian Art Prize and the Erich Kästner Prize for Literature and is a member of the jury for the James Krüss Prize for international children's and youth literature .

The Cistercian monastery Mariental 1138 to 1337: The property and economic history including the political and religious position . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1995
Walks through the Munich of famous women , with Katharina Festner, Arche Verlag, Zurich Hamburg 1996
Walks through Mozart's Salzburg , with Katharina Festner, Arche Verlag, Zurich-Hamburg 2000
The Book Lock: Messages from the International Youth Library . International Youth Library, Munich 2008ff. (as editor)
And the animals came in pairs: Józef Wilkon and the current Polish children's book illustration. Exhibition catalog . Edited by Christiane Raabe. International Youth Library, Munich 2009.
Hello, dear enemy: picture books for peace and humanity. Exhibition catalog , International Youth Library, Munich 2015
Your little hand, my heart, fell from mine long ago: Ricarda and Lilly Huch . In: German sisters: fourteen biographical portraits . Rowohlt, Berlin 1997, 244-280. ISBN 3871343005
It's about the kids. Books for peace . In: JuLit H3, 2015.