Heinrich Heine Institute

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Heinrich Heine Institute at Bilker Strasse 12-14 (2010)

The Heinrich Heine Institute is an institution for research and presentation of the life and work of the writer Heinrich Heine , based in Düsseldorf .

History of the institute

The institute was founded in 1970. Its holdings emerged from the manuscript collection of the State and City Library of Düsseldorf after the other writings in this library were transferred to the holdings of the University and State Library of the newly founded University of Düsseldorf , which was later also named after Heine. The State Library was the successor to the Electoral Library of the Electors Palatinate-Neuburg.

In addition to the Heine archive, the collection also includes the Schumann archive and other writings from the former state library.

Institute activity

The institute, which works together with the Heinrich Heine Society , is divided into an archive, a library and a museum. The museum includes a permanent exhibition on Heine and is dedicated exclusively to this poet, while the library and archive also keep holdings that are not related to Heine.

archive

The archive contains among other things

  • the Rhenish Literature Archive, which deals exclusively with Rhenish authors from the 19th century to the present day
  • the general collection of autographs (17th - 19th centuries)
  • the Schumann archive
  • another 50 estates and
  • an image and a photo archive

Library

There is a library and reading room. This includes

  • the Heine library with works by and about Heinrich Heine
  • the Heine estate library from the poet's estate
  • Heine settings and
  • Estate libraries from the Rheinisches Literaturarchiv

Heinrich Heine Portal

The Heinrich Heine portal is a digital information system and contains the historically critical Düsseldorf Heine edition (DHA) and the letter department of the Weimar secular edition (HSA).

Heinrich Heine Museum and exhibition

The permanent exhibition "Romanticism and Revolution" deals with the life, work and time of the Düsseldorf poet Heine. The permanent exhibition is divided into nine rooms:

  • Family (before 1797)
  • Beginnings (1797-1819)
  • Departure (1819–1831)
  • Exile (1831-1848)
  • Mattress Crypt (1848-1856)
  • Contemporaries (effect), especially Robert and Clara Schumann
  • Posterity (effect)
  • a "literature laboratory"
  • a listening and reading corner

Temporary exhibitions are also held in the rooms, some of which are also curated by the institute, for example an exhibition on B. Traven in 2012 .

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Coordinates: 51 ° 13 ′ 19.81 "  N , 6 ° 46 ′ 23.21"  E