Ute and Wolfram Neumann Foundation
The Ute-und-Wolfram-Neumann-Foundation has dedicated itself to the preservation and maintenance of book culture - also in relation to other media - by examining the origin, meaning and influence of literary book series on education and awareness and making it known to a wider public.
Neumann Collection
The core of the foundation is the Neumann Collection. It is the result of many years of research and collecting by Ute and Wolfram Neumann and consists of almost all copies of a large part of the book series that were published in German-speaking countries in the 20th century (and beyond).
The collection now consists of approx. 1850 book series with a total of approx. 30,000 volumes. Historically, it extends from the Empire to the Weimar Republic , the Hitler dictatorship , the division of Germany to reunification and into the present day. Some very early series collected here go back to the first half of the 19th century and even to the late 18th century. The collection also serves as source material for literary-sociological and cultural-historical research, especially at the University of Magdeburg .
The series include u. A .: series Pandora , series Piper , shuttle , sailor library of art history , Schocken Books . One of the special items in the collection is the Insel-Bücherei , which is presented here in full, including volume 313. The edition of this volume - Wolfgang Kayser : Gedichte des Barock Leipzig 1943 - was almost completely destroyed when the publishing house was destroyed in the Second World War (1943) .
The Neumann Foundation's book series was handed over in 2003 on the occasion of the new building of the Magdeburg University Library . It is located in a total of 12 blocks of shelves in the public area of the library (first floor) and can be viewed there daily. The books in this collection can be viewed in the catalog of the Magdeburg University Library under here (shelf mark group “STN”).
Exhibitions
The foundation's research activities have resulted in several exhibitions at the Magdeburg University Library. a .:
- December 1, 2014 to January 31, 2015: “Weltliteratur - Feldliteratur”, an exhibition on book series from the First World War. Catalog see below.
- September 17, 2019 to November 15, 2019: Books for the front. Field Post Ranks of the Second World War; an exhibition on book series in World War II. Catalog see below.
literature
- Adam, Wolfgang: Library as an organism. The Killy Library and the Ute and Wolfram Neumann Foundation in the Magdeburg University Library . In: Magdeburger Wissenschaftsjournal 2 (2004). Pp. 55-65. Online here .
- World literature - field literature. World War I book series. An exhibition. Edited by Thorsten Unger. Hanover: Wehrhahn Verlag, 2015. Exhibition catalog in the catalog of the Magdeburg University Library here .
- Books for the front. Field post rows of the Second World War. Exhibition catalog. Edited by Thorsten Unger. Hanover: Wehrhahn 2019. Exhibition catalog in the catalog of the Magdeburg University Library here.