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Leipzig: Wednesday, 30.04.2025

The reading rooms in the main building of the German National Library in Leipzig will close at 14:00 due to an event. The museum reading room, the music reading room and the service area are open until 18.00. The exhibitions of the German Museum of Books and Writing will open from 10:00 to 18:00.

Frankfurt am Main: Repair work telephone system

On 2 May, the Frankfurt site of the German National Library will be unavailable by telephone from 9.30 - 11.30 due to repair work.

Podcast Augenrausch, Episode 4: Nicolas Mahler

In this episode, “AugenRausch” visits comic artist Nicolas Mahler in Vienna – “Is this art? Is this literature?” Austrian comic artist Nicolas Mahler (b. 1969) can only smile wearily at such questions; after all, he has been able to earn a living by selling his comic strips to the major daily newspapers ever since he left school. At the end of the 1990s, he found a market for his minimalist drawings and absurd humour in the high-end independent comic sector, which included magazines and publishers such as “Strapazin”, “L’Association” and “Reprodukt”. His inclusion in the “Insel-Bücherei” series and his literary adaptations of works such as Thomas Bernhard’s “Old Masters” have now placed Mahler, this “master of reduction”, in the category of high culture, a sector which had long disdained him.

For our next episode of “AugenRausch”, we will again be visiting a studio in Leipzig. Illustrator Anna Haifisch will be opening the doors to her studio (release date: 25 October 2024).

A man with grey hair and glasses standing in front of a bookcase Photo: Nils Kahlefendt