German Museum of Books and Writing

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New building of the German Museum of Books and Writing

The German Museum of Books and Writing (DBSM) in Leipzig is the world's oldest specialist museum of its kind and was founded in 1884 as the German Museum of Books and Books.

Duration

The museum collects, preserves and reveals valuable evidence of book , writing and paper culture . The provision of unique study collections and the associated specialist literature for scientific purposes, in particular for research on the history of books and paper, is a major concern of museum work. In addition to a permanent exhibition, the museum brings changing thematic exhibitions to the public.

The main initiator was the bookseller Carl Berendt Lorck . The foundation of the holdings is the collection of the publisher Heinrich Klemm , bought in 1886 , which today comprises around 67,000 titles, including around 23,000 museum prints from the incunable period to the 21st century. The museum has around 150,000 archive items that have been collected by the Leipzig Stock Exchange's book trade archive since 1844 . It also has the world's largest cataloged collection of watermarks, with 400,000 copies . There are around 1 million inventory units in total.

history

The book trade house in Leipzig

On October 29, 1884 it was founded as the German Book Trade Museum , making it the oldest book museum in the world. It was initially located in the bookseller exchange in Ritterstraße, from 1888 in the bookseller's house in Hospitalstraße and from 1900 in the bookseller's house in Dolzstraße. In 1914 the museum took over important exhibits from the Bugra . During the Second World War, the museum was so badly damaged by a heavy air raid on the night of December 4, 1943 that three quarters of the book collection was destroyed. Some of the most valuable pieces, including a Gutenberg Bible , had previously been relocated to Rauenstein Castle in the Ore Mountains. There they were confiscated by the Red Army in September 1945 and taken to Moscow, where they are still in the Russian State Library to this day . Since 1950 the museum has belonged as a department to what was then the Deutsche Bücherei Leipzig and from 2006 to the German National Library . In 2007, construction began on an extension that opened in May 2011. The new permanent exhibition “Signs Books Networks: From Cuneiform to Binary Code” opened on March 13, 2012. The first virtual exhibition of the German Museum of Books and Writing was published under the same title on May 18, 2014. It is bilingual, freely accessible and offers a variety of insights into the history of the media in eleven themed modules - including handwriting culture, book printing, censorship and reading worlds.

In 1970 the museum was awarded the Gutenberg Prize of the City of Leipzig .

literature

  • Hans H. Bockwitz : The German Museum for books and writing. 1884-1934. In: Archiv für Buchgewerbe und Nutzgraphik 71 (1934), No. 10, pp. 623–664.
  • Fritz Funke : The German Museum of Books and Writing of the German Library in Leipzig . In: Gutenberg-Jahrbuch 59 (1984), pp. 194-210.
  • Stephanie Jacobs: In a new guise ... The German Museum of Books and Writing of the German National Library is 125 years old and has a new domicile in Leipzig . In: Zeitschrift für Bibliothekswesen und Bibliographie 56 (2009), pp. 373–379.

See also

Web links

Commons : German Museum of Books and Writing  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German National Library: German Museum of Books and Writing ( memento from June 6, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on August 2, 2014
  2. ^ German National Library ( Memento from February 11, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on May 20, 2014
  3. ↑ Kristina Barth, Hannelore Effelsberg: Bookseller Business Circular - Introduction ( Memento from December 16, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) from March 9, 2004

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