Our press releases provide information on current topics at the German National Library. They cover the whole spectrum of our activities and range from content relating to library work to cultural news about exhibitions and events on our premises in Leipzig and Frankfurt am Main.
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Between Lines and Times.
200 years of the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels
16 April 2025 // Exhibition at the German National Library’s German Museum of Books and Writing in Leipzig
24 April to 15 December 2025. Opening: Wednesday, 23 April 2025, 18:00
Research project focusing on the digitisation of historical typeface samples
8 April 2025 // Four institutions are giving Germany's written memory a helping hand by launching a new joint project involving the digitisation and provision of open access to the country's typographic cultural heritage
New service area opens at the German National Library in Frankfurt am Main
31 March 2025 // The last few weeks have been spent restructuring, programming and testing - and now everything is ready. The German National Library was the first national library to introduce a self-service area for lending, storage for reuse and returns of media, and is now also doing so at its second location in Frankfurt am Main.
New Chief Information Officer:
Wolfgang Stille assumes responsibility for digitisation
4 March 2025 // On 1 July 2025, Wolfgang Stille will take up the newly created post of Chief Information Officer (CIA) at the German National Library, thus assuming a significant part of the responsibility for the strategic further development of digitisation and information technology at the German National Library.
Restored reading rooms / Redesigned service area / User fees
11 February 2025 // The Humanities Reading Room and the Natural Sciences Reading Room at the German National Library in Leipzig will reopen to users and visitors at 11:00 on 24 February 2025 following a comprehensive renovation.
German Exile Archive receives press artist Emil Stumpp’s estate and art archive
5 February 2025 // The German National Library’s German Exile Archive 1933–1945 is delighted to add the estate and art archive of Emil Stumpp to its collection. Stumpp was one of the Weimar Republic’s leading press artists.
Image: German National Library’s German Exile Archive 1933–1945, Estate Emil Stumpp, EB 2024/004
Building for posterity.
Architecture firm CODE UNIQUE wins the contract for the extension of the German National Library
8 January 2025 // In January 2025, the architecture firm CODE UNIQUE Architekten GmbH won the contract for the realisation of the German National Library’s fifth extension in Leipzig.
Do you want to know more about the topics we have focused on in recent years? Or would you like to find out about past exhibitions and events? You can browse press releases from past years in our archive.
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