Gutenberg Imperial Exhibition
The Gutenberg Reich Exhibition (GRA) was an exhibition planned for 1940 in Leipzig to mark the 500th anniversary of the European invention of printing with movable type by Johannes Gutenberg . It should represent Germany's leading role in this area. Because of the outbreak of World War II , the exhibition did not take place.
The Gutenberg Reich Exhibition was planned and prepared from 1936 at the latest. It should take place on a site in Leipzig-Lindenau . In order to create sufficient free space, the cycling track located there was demolished and in 1939 the 16th century cow tower and the adjacent architecturally outstanding buildings in the Palmengarten were blown up.
In preparation for the exhibition, the German Book Trade House received an extension in 1938 , which later became an essential part of the Bugra exhibition center.
The main initiator of the exhibition was the Leipzig newspaper scientist Walter Schöne . He was supported in the organization by, among others, the Frankfurt book expert Georg Kurt Schauer and the writer Erhart Kästner . The duration of the exhibition was planned from May 10 to October 20, 1940. A cast-iron medal had already appeared for the exhibition.
Individual evidence
- ↑ History of Lindenau on leipziger-info.de
- ↑ Sabine Knopf: Book City Leipzig: The Historical Travel Guide , Christoph Links Verlag, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86153-634-5 , p. 10
- ^ Illustration of the medal for the Gutenberg Imperial Exhibition
literature
- Hainer Michalske: The Gutenberg Reich Exhibition 1940 . Steiner-Verlag Stuttgart, 2007