Schiller National Museum

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The Schiller National Museum in Marbach am Neckar
German Literature Archive Marbach , Schiller National Museum and Modern Literature Museum (from left to right)

The Schiller National Museum is part of the literature museums of the German Literature Archive in Marbach , along with the Modern Literature Museum . It was opened in 1903 on the Schillerhöhe in Marbach am Neckar as the Schiller Archive and Museum . Since 1895 it was intended as a memorial for Friedrich Schiller, who was born in Marbach, and other poets from Swabia , and was built from 1901 according to the plans of the Stuttgart architects Ludwig Eisenlohr and Carl Weigle . In 1922 it was given its current name.

Schiller National Museum and German Literature Archive Marbach

In 1955, the German Literature Archive was founded in the Schiller National Museum, among other things, to give exiled German literature between 1933 and 1945 a central place of preservation and preservation. Since then, the archive's collection area has spanned all of German literature from the Enlightenment to the present day.

The Schiller National Museum and the German Literature Archive form the unified institution of the German Literature Archive Marbach .

For the 250th birthday of Friedrich Schiller, the museum was reopened on November 10, 2009 by Federal President Horst Köhler , which was renovated for more than six million euros. The focus of the new permanent exhibition is on the life and work of Schiller as well as German literature of the 18th and 19th centuries.

carrier

The Schiller National Museum and the German Literature Archive , which is unique in the German museum and research landscape , is substantially funded by the federal government and the state of Baden-Württemberg , but is supported by the Bürgererverein Deutsche Schillergesellschaft e. V. This emerged in 1947 from the Swabian Schillerverein founded in 1895 , which had set itself the task of collecting and exhibiting testimonies and manuscripts of poets.

aims

The museum and archive jointly pursue the goal of collecting, organizing and making available texts, documents and testimonies of recent German literature and making them available for research. The results of this research and development work are made accessible in the museum through exhibitions and catalogs, in the archive through scientific publications and reading and study editions, etc. The focus is on the legacies of important writers and scholars as well as the archives of institutions and companies, including the Cotta'sche publishing bookstore as the most important publishing archive of the 19th century .

director

The director of the Schiller National Museum and German Literature Archive is appointed by the committee of the Deutsche Schillergesellschaft e. V. ordered. He is also the managing director of the association and carries out the resolutions of the board, committee and general assembly.

Directors were and are:

Exhibitions (selection)

Due to renovation work, there were no permanent exhibitions until the Schiller year 2009 and therefore no Schiller exhibitions.

buildings

The predecessor of the museum, Schiller's birthplace , was opened as a museum memorial Schillerhaus as early as 1859 by the Marbach Schiller Club . The Schiller Archive and Museum , which opened in 1903 and was built mainly from private association funds, was expanded in 1934 to get its present shape (usable area 2000 m²). After the German Literature Archive was founded in the museum in 1955, the following were opened:

  • 1973 The new building of the German Literature Archive (usable area 6000 m²; Architects: Elisabeth Kiefner and Jörg Kiefner );
  • 1980 the warehouse buildings under the museum forecourt with underground connections between the museum and archive (usable area 1300 m²);
  • 1993 the college house for researching guests from all over the world, financed mainly from patronage funds, with 30 rooms with 60 beds (2000 m²);
  • 1994 the extension of the German Literature Archive with structural separation of study area and conference area (6000 m²);
  • 2006 the Museum of Modern Literature , which covers over 1000 m² of German-language literature of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Jobs and projects

The following workplaces and projects are affiliated with the Schiller National Museum and the German Literature Archive:

  • Office for the research and history of German studies with the main focus: publications, bequests, Marbach grants
  • Office for literary museums, archives and memorials in Baden-Württemberg
  • International dictionary of Germanists
  • Mörike Archive , which publishes the critical edition of Eduard Mörike's works and letters .
  • Project to full scientific Hybrid - edition of the diaries of Harry Graf Kessler

Origin and history / literature

Comprehensive information and references to literature on this, also on the prehistory in the 19th century, can be found in the German Literature Archive Marbach .

See also

Web links

Commons : Schiller National Museum and German Literature Archive Marbach  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 48 ° 56 ′ 8.2 "  N , 9 ° 15 ′ 17.5"  E