Monacensia

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Monacensia
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Hildebrand House

founding 1921
Duration 350,000
Library type Special library
place Munich coordinates: 48 ° 8 ′ 37 ″  N , 11 ° 35 ′ 56 ″  EWorld icon
ISIL DE-M36a
operator State capital Munich
management Anke Buettner
Website https://www.muenchner-stadtbibliothek.de/monacensia-im-hildebrandhaus

The Monacensia , actually Monacensia in the Hildebrandhaus , brings together the literature archive of the city of Munich and a research library on the history and cultural life of Munich. The Latin name Monacensia means "Munich". The facility describes itself as "the literary memory of the city of Munich". Since 1977 it has been based in the former artist villa of the sculptor Adolf von Hildebrand (1847–1921). The institution is connected to the Munich City Library .

location

The Monacensia is located in the Hildebrandhaus , the former villa of the sculptor Adolf von Hildebrand in the Bogenhausen district on the Isar high bank, near the Friedensengel . Gabriel von Seidl built the villa, one of the important artist villas of the Prince Regent's time, in 1898 on the basis of Hildebrand's plans. It became a meeting place for Munich society in the early 20th century and experienced an eventful history until the arrival of Monacensia in 1977.

history

In 1921, Hans Ludwig Held caused the municipal authorities to outsource their holdings of books on the subject of Munich. 5,000 volumes from various institutions, such as the building department or the city museum, came together and were initially housed in a room in the city hall. The library survived the Second World War largely undamaged. After a few moves, Monacensia has been at its current location since 1977. From 2013 the Monacensia was closed for a general renovation. It reopened in December 2016. During the renovation, the literature archive was outsourced and only accessible to a limited extent.

Holdings and use

Literature archive

The collection currently comprises some 300 literary estates , Ephemeral Paper and bundles of renowned writers who were closely linked to Munich or stand. These include Oskar Maria Graf , Annette Kolb , Liesl Karlstadt , Frank Wedekind , Fanny Countess zu Reventlow , Gustav Meyrink , Ludwig Thoma , Ludwig Ganghofer and Jörg Hube . The focal points of the literature archive include the collection areas Exile , Schwabing Bohème around 1900, contemporary authors and folk artists .

The manuscript department founded by Hans Ludwig Held in the 1920s , which included the original manuscripts and autographs of all important writers in Munich and Upper Bavaria, grew into a wide-ranging inventory of estates and valuable individual documents from the Monacensia. You can get an idea of ​​the size of the current collections in the literature archive by researching the alphabetical index of the Monacensia library. With the individual authors you will find the materials of their estate, partial estate or legacy such as manuscripts, correspondence, biographical documents, photos, any pictorial objects or audio documents or personal items listed. Detailed information on the letter holdings and autographs can be researched in the online catalog of the Munich City Library and in the Kalliope database. No library card is required to use the literature archive, as the documents can only be viewed on site. Since many materials are stored in external depots, it is advisable to order them several days in advance.

Funding from the German Research Foundation (DFG) has made it possible for Monacensia to make Klaus Mann's diaries , Monika Mann's entire archive, and all of Erika and Klaus Mann's letters, manuscripts and biographical documents accessible to the public in digital form.

Monacensia Library

The Monacensia research library comprises around 150,000 books and media on the subject of Munich. The focus of the collection is Munich as a city of literature and culture. The holdings range from Munich prints from the 16th century to new publications. Both for research purposes and for reading are several lending libraries and an extensive magazine library. Books and audiovisual media published in 1960 or later can be borrowed.

Different topics are assigned to the library rooms on the first floor of the house:

  • The library in the ladies' studio (former studio rooms of Adolf von Hildebrand's daughters) offers books on the history and social and economic policy of the city of Munich as well as on literature, art and architecture. Other topics range from natural sciences, medicine and technology to home and garden, sport and leisure, each with a reference to Munich.
  • The Mann family library contains editions of works, volumes of letters, diaries, biographies and illustrated books. Here you can also find secondary literature and yearbooks as well as study and publication series on the Mann family.
  • The library of Munich authors shows a selection of works, which is constantly updated, as well as the main topics bohemian around 1900, the 1920s in Munich and literature by writers in exile.

Offers and events

Oskar Maria Graf's desk in the permanent exhibition

The ground floor and the mezzanine floor are accessible as an “open house” during opening hours. The Forum Atelier on the ground floor serves as a hall for events. This is followed by rooms with the permanent exhibitions “Literary Munich at the time of Thomas Mann” and “History of the Hildebrandhaus”. Additional rooms offer space for temporary exhibitions . The exhibitions that have existed since 1995 (including on Lena Christ ) are listed on the Munich City Library website. The exhibition “ Erika Mann . Cabaret artist - war reporter - political speaker ”is the first in which Erika Mann has not seen - as before - primarily in her role as the daughter of Thomas Mann , but rather it is all about her own personality and merits. The library and literature archive are located on the upper floor . The garden of the villa is open to the public, next to it there is the Café MON , named after the signature on the books of Monacensia.

In addition to the exhibitions and the open access libraries, there are also offers for teaching literature. In cooperation with the Munich Adult Education Center, Monacensia offers regular guided tours through the exhibitions. In cooperation with the Museum Education Center, there are special tours for school classes. There are collaborations with the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the NS Documentation Center in Munich . Results from the research are published in Edition Moncensia .

The events reflect the focus of the research library and the literature archive: Bavarian authors of the 20th century, writers from the Schwabing bohemians around 1900, exile literature between 1933 and 1945, contemporary Munich literature since 1945 and the topic of Munich folk singers, performers and cabaret artists. The following series of events are available for these topics:

  • The “atelier monaco - literary voices from Munich” deals with the city's latest literary texts and the variety of literary writing - prose, poetry, theater texts, scripts and song texts or text works from the visual arts.
  • At “Mon reads” authors present their current novels in readings and discussions.
  • In the “From the Stocks” series, authors and scholars present their work based on the Monacensia collection.
  • Monacensia special exhibitions are accompanied by an extensive program of events that also deals with current debates and issues.

literature

  • Elisabeth Tworek (ed.) With the assistance of Ursula Hummel: Literature in the archive. Holdings of the Monacensia. Monacensia, Munich 2002. (With a selection of the manuscripts and publications of Monacensia as well as a list of the bequests.)
  • Christiane Kuller, Maximilian Schreiber: The Hildebrandhaus. A Munich artist villa and its inhabitants during the National Socialist era . A joint project of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria, the cultural department of the state capital Munich and Monacensia (=  edition monacensia ). Allitera, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-86520-130-0 ( reading sample ).
  • Christine Hoh-Slodczyk: The artist's house in the 19th century. Prestel, Munich 1985, pp. 121-128.
  • Dietrich Sattler: Adolf von Hildebrand and the architecture. Buchner, Munich 1932.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Monacensia - the literary memory of the city of Munich. Munich City Library, accessed on June 18, 2019 .
  2. Munich City Library (ed.): The Hildebrandhaus. Biography of an artist's villa. Selection list, Munich 2016 (flyer).
  3. Hannes Hintermeier: Thomas Mann as a spider in the web. In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , December 9, 2016, p. 11
  4. muenchen.de: Monacensia
  5. ^ Monacensia Library, accessed on August 16, 2020
  6. Treasures of Monacensia accessed on August 16, 2020
  7. ^ Literature archive of the Monacensia. Retrieved August 16, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Union catalog for personal papers, autograph collections and archive holdings. Retrieved September 30, 2019 .
  9. ^ Munich City Library - Literature Archive. Retrieved November 12, 2019 .
  10. monacensia-digital. Retrieved November 12, 2019 .
  11. ^ Petra Hallmayer: A villa for Munich. In: Münchner Feuilleton, June 2019, p. 29.
  12. Brochure the literary memory of the city of munich. Edited by Munich City Library / Monacensia. Munich 2016
  13. Monacensia exhibitions. Retrieved August 16, 2020 .
  14. ^ Events in Monacensia. Retrieved August 16, 2020 .
  15. Café Mon - Café Mon. Retrieved on August 14, 2019 (German).