Museum of Literature on the Upper Rhine
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The Museum for Literature on the Upper Rhine in Karlsruhe is a museum about literary life in the Upper Rhine region. It is maintained by the Karlsruhe Literary Society . It was opened for the first time in 1926, making it one of the oldest literary museums in Germany .
The museum is housed in the city's cultural center Prinz-Max-Palais . The building, also known as the Literature House, is also the seat of the Karlsruhe Literary Society and houses the City Museum and the City Library's youth library .
The museum is a venue for the European Culture Days Karlsruhe and the Literature Days Karlsruhe .
history
The Museum of Literature on the Upper Rhine goes back to the German Scheffel Association founded in Heidelberg in 1924 , which committed itself to processing the estate of the poet Joseph Victor von Scheffel and opening a museum. The Scheffel Museum was opened in 1926 in what was then the library building of the Karlsruhe Palace ; from 1932 the museum was housed in the Solms house.
In 1936 the Scheffel Museum was expanded to become the Badisches Dichtermuseum . Three years later, the Museum Department of Living Poets around the Upper Rhine was opened. However, the activities of the Scheffelbund, meanwhile forcibly incorporated into the Reichswerk Buch und Volk , had to be stopped in 1944 due to the Second World War . After the war ended in 1945, the Scheffelbund, now known as the People's League for Poetry, formerly the Scheffelbund , became active again.
In 1965 the museum moved to Röntgenstrasse in Weststadt . Now the museum and the association had their own house for the first time. The reopening of the museum took place on March 20, 1965, under the new name Oberrheinisches Dichtermuseum . The People's League for Poetry was renamed the Literary Society (Scheffelbund) in 1972.
From December 1995 to 1998 the Max Reger Institute , which was relocated from Bonn to Karlsruhe, was housed in the same building as the museum. In 1998 the Literary Society and the Museum moved into the Prinz-Max-Palais, which has been used as the city's cultural center since 1981. The museum was renamed the Museum for Literature on the Upper Rhine . On the occasion of the ten-year existence in the Prinz-Max-Palais, the museum's permanent exhibition was revised in 2008.
Exhibitions
Permanent exhibition
The permanent exhibition is structured according to epochs . An exhibition room deals with the Middle Ages, Humanism , Baroque , Sturm und Drang , Heidelberg Romanticism and the 19th century. Another exhibition space deals, among other things, with modernity and its countercurrents, exile and internal emigration , right through to literature from the second half of the 20th century.
Since the redesign in 2008, the permanent exhibition has been equipped with multimedia elements and an audio guide in both German and French. There is a separate audio tour for children and teenagers.
There are separate sections for both Johann Peter Hebel and Joseph Victor von Scheffel. Furthermore, a large number of readings recorded since 1965 can be heard, including by authors such as Martin Walser , Juli Zeh and Feridun Zaimoglu .
Temporary exhibition
In the regularly changing part of the exhibition, literary as well as art and cultural-historical topics are dealt with. The following is a selection of past topics:
- 1996: Whoever calls me a stranger - Berthold Auerbach's years in Karlsruhe.
- 2002: a picture of the times. Literature in Baden-Württemberg 1952–1970. On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the state of Baden-Württemberg
- 2007: Karlsruhe 1907: The Carl Hau sensational trial .
- 2012: Literature in Baden-Württemberg 1970 to 2010. On the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the state
Upper Rhine library
The Upper Rhine Library is part of the Museum for Literature on the Upper Rhine, a research library on the history of literature in the Upper Rhine. It comprises around 10,000 volumes of both sources and specialist literature , including rare editions by important Baden and Alsatian authors of the 19th and 20th centuries such as Joseph von Auffenberg , Hermine Villinger , and Walter Helmut Fritz .
The library is a member of the Southwest German Library Network . The holdings can be searched on the Internet and the reference library is publicly accessible.
Upper Rhine literature archive
The Upper Rhine Literature Archive focuses on literature from the Upper Rhine, especially from the 19th century. Central is the estate and collection of Joseph Victor von Scheffels. In addition, several other bequests are archived, including those of Max Barth , Ernst Feuerstein and Louise Bresslau-Hoff . Some of the correspondence from Stahlberg Verlag is also archived .
In addition to the literature, an image archive is maintained, which includes portraits of authors as well as literary locations and motifs.
Web links
- Museum for Literature on the Upper Rhine in the Stadtwiki Karlsruhe
- Homepage of the Literary Society and the Museum for Literature on the Upper Rhine. Literary Society Karlsruhe eV, accessed on September 23, 2015 .
- City Chronicle Karlsruhe. Museum of Literature on the Upper Rhine. City of Karlsruhe, accessed on September 23, 2015 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Museum for Literature on the Upper Rhine. Literary Society Karlsruhe eV, accessed on September 23, 2015 .
- ↑ About the Literary Society. History of the Literary Society and the Museum for Literature on the Upper Rhine. Literary Society Karlsruhe eV, accessed on September 23, 2015 .
- ↑ Temporary exhibitions. Literary Society Karlsruhe eV, accessed on September 23, 2015 .