Literature Museum of the Austrian National Library

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Johannesgasse 6 Literature Museum

The Literature Museum of the Austrian National Library is a literature museum in the listed , former Imperial and Royal Court Chamber Archives at Johannesgasse 6 in the 1st district of Vienna . It opened on April 17, 2015. The director of the museum is Bernhard Fetz .

building

The house is one of the oldest archive buildings in Central Europe and was built in 1843/44 according to plans by Paul Sprenger. When the listed archive ensemble was converted into a museum, which was carried out against the protests of numerous prominent historians, the original entrance was stripped of its function and the ground floor was changed beyond recognition. From 1848 it housed the Imperial and Royal Court Chamber Archives, a financial authority of the Habsburg Monarchy . Until 2006 the Hofkammerarchiv was run in this building under the direction of the Austrian State Archives . The former study of the Austrian poet and former director of the kk Hofkammerarchiv Franz Grillparzer is on the second floor . Franz Grillparzer's management room is part of the museum.

Museum concept

One of the showrooms of the literature museum

A permanent exhibition conveys Austrian literature from the late 18th century to the present on two levels. It deals with authors and phenomena of literary life that were relevant within the respective borders of Austria. The third level will serve as a space for temporary exhibitions from 2016. A total of around 750 m 2 of exhibition space is available. There are also rooms on the ground floor and fourth floor, which are used for readings and workshops.

The objects on display come from the collections of the Austrian National Library and other institutions. In addition to books, manuscripts, letters, drawings and photos, there is also space for visually and historically interesting objects. The catalog for the permanent exhibition The Literature Museum. 101 Objects and Stories presents the most important objects on display.

Special exhibitions

One year after the museum opened, in April 2016, the first special exhibition was opened. Under the title Pencil, Booklet & Laptop. 10 positions of current writing should convey a "vivid picture of contemporary Austrian literature". Ten Austrian writers, including Teresa Präauer , Clemens J. Setz , Anna Weidenholzer , Thomas Stangl and Kathrin Röggla , were given the opportunity to present their approach to writing and to design their own exhibition. The exhibition was curated by Angelika Reitzer and Wolfgang Straub .

The second special exhibition In the Intoxication of Writing: From Musil to Bachmann traced the states of euphoria and rapture that writing can evoke. In addition, she focused on literary texts that deal with the most varied forms of intoxication and enjoyment, of trance, ecstasy and bodily obsession.

The third special exhibition Berg, Wittgenstein, Zuckerkandl: Central Figures of Viennese Modernism opened in spring 2018.

The special exhibition Vienna has been taking place since April 2019 . A city in the mirror of literature focuses on the importance of the city of Vienna in Austrian literature and explores the Austrian capital with texts by Ilse Aichinger , Ingeborg Bachmann , Thomas Bernhard , Peter Handke , Josef Haslinger , Friedrich Heer , Bodo Hell , Peter Henisch , Ruth Klüger , Frederic Morton , Julian Schutting , Manès Sperber , Hilde Spiel , Dorothea Zeemann and others.

Accompanying volumes are published for all special exhibitions.

literature

  • Bernhard Fetz (Ed.): The Literature Museum. 101 objects and stories (Salzburg, Vienna 2015) ISBN 978-3-99027-070-7 .
  • Angelika Reitzer , Wolfgang Straub (eds.), Pencil, exercise book & laptop. 10 positions of current writing (Salzburg, Vienna 2016) ISBN 978-3-99027-085-1 .
  • Katharina Manojlovic, Kerstin Putz (eds.), In the intoxication of writing. From Musil to Bachmann (Vienna 2017) ISBN 978-3-552-05826-2 .
  • Bernhard Fetz (ed.), Berg, Wittgenstein, Zuckerkandl. Central figures of Viennese modernism (Vienna 2018) ISBN 978-3-552-05891-0 .
  • Bernhard Fetz, Katharina Manojlovic, Kerstin Putz (eds.), Vienna. A city in the mirror of literature (Vienna, Bozen 2019) ISBN 978-3-85256-778-5 .

Web links

Commons : Hofkammerarchiv  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ orf.at - New literature museum in old walls . Article dated April 17, 2015, accessed April 22, 2015.
  2. ↑ Opening of the Literary Museum: press conference with live streaming on 17 April at 10.30 . APA notification dated April 9, 2015, accessed April 15, 2015.
  3. ↑ Many new meters of shelf space for literature and contemporary history . kurier.at from January 15, 2015. Retrieved January 15, 2015
  4. ↑ https://www.onb.ac.at/museen/literaturmuseum/sonderausstellungen/bleistift-heft-und-laptop/
  5. ↑ https://www.onb.ac.at/museen/literaturmuseum/sonderausstellungen/wien-eine-stadt-im-spiegel-der-literatur
  6. ↑ Publications

Coordinates: 48 ° 12 '17.4 "  N , 16 ° 22' 21.6"  E