Reclam Museum

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Replica of the Reclam book machine from 1912. On permanent loan from the Reclam publishing house in Ditzingen.

The Reclam Museum is a book museum in Leipzig's graphic quarter , Kreuzstrasse 12. It includes an exhibition of around 10,000 notebooks, books, etc. from Reclam's universal library from its beginnings in 1867 to the present day. It is the only museum and the most comprehensive collection of its kind on publications by Reclam Verlag (formerly Leipzig, now Ditzingen ).

history

The Reclam Museum opened on October 24, 2018. It is located opposite the former Reclam publishing house, Inselstraße 22-24, built by Hans Heinrich Reclam . With the exception of the book vending machine, all exhibits come from the private collection of the Germanist , former museum director and cultural politician Hans-Jochen Marquardt , who has built them up over 50 years of collecting. Marquardt is the son of the Leipzig publisher Hans Marquardt , who ran the Philipp Reclam jun. Leipzig directed.

The museum was created on Marquardt's initiative and, in addition to the well-known small editions of the classics of world literature, also shows less well-known things from the publisher, such as (bound) special editions, editions of the magazine “Reclams Universum”, field libraries from the First and Second World Wars , so-called camouflage publications as well Autographs , etc. a. by Hermann Hesse . A permanent loan from the publishing house in Ditzingen is a true-to-original replica of a Reclam book machine from 1912, an absolute novelty in its day to reach new customers. The machines were set up like cigarette machines at train stations, in hospitals and in public places.

In addition, the museum documents the eventful publishing history up to 1945 and then that of the two separate Reclam publishers, the "old" in Leipzig and the "new" in Ditzingen, as well as the cooperation between the two publishing branches after German reunification . The liquidation of the Leipzig branch at the end of March 2006 and the further history of the publishing house up to the present are dealt with.

The reference library comprises about a third of the total production of Reclam's Universal Library since 1867. The museum is located in the basement opposite the former building of the Reclam publishing house. The premises are provided rent-free by the non-profit Leipzig school society Rahn Education , which had saved the Schumann House there from deterioration.

The museum is run by the Association of Literary Museum eV from Leipzig, which was founded in 2011 on the initiative of Marquardt.

The museum is mainly financed privately and to a lesser extent from donations.

Impressions from the Reclam Museum
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Reclam's "portable field library" from the First World War (below) and from the Second World War (above)
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Book wall with various old and current editions of the Reclam publishing house, including above all Reclam's Universal Library
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Camouflage from 1935 (left), which imitates a booklet from Reclam's Universal Library (right)


literature

  • Hans-Jochen Marquardt: Evidence of a universal program. About my Reclam collection . In: From the second-hand bookshop. Journal for Antiquarian and Book Collectors NF 13 (2015), No. 5, ISSN  0343-186X , pp. 199–201.
  • Hans-Jochen Marquardt: A small museum for a great tradition. The Reclam Museum in Leipzig . In: instigated. Information sheet of the Saxon Literature Council eV [20] (2019), No. 1, ZDB -ID 2028597-8 , p. 9.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Dietrich Bode: 125 Years of the Universal Library 1867–1992. Philipp Reclam jun., Stuttgart 1992, p. 95.
  2. ^ Official website of Rahn Education
  3. ↑ Information about the museum sponsor

Coordinates: 51 ° 20 ′ 28.1 ″  N , 12 ° 23 ′ 28.2 ″  E