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Leipzig: Monday 12.05.2025

The Museum Reading Room in Leipzig will not open until 16:00 on Monday 12.05.2025, due to maintenance work.

Leipzig: Thursday 15.05.2025

The German National Library in Leipzig will not open until 16:00 on Thursday 16.05.2025 due to maintenance work.
The Museum Reading Room and the exhibitions of the German Museum of Books and Writing will be open.

Goethe Medal and honorary membership of the Gesellschaft für Exilforschung e.V. awarded to Professor John M. Spalek

These include the estates of sociologists Joseph and Alice Maier, politologist Sigmund Neumann, authors Soma Morgenstern and Ivan Heilbut, classical scholar Ernst Moritz Manasse, Hittite scholar Hans Gustav Güterbock, and the Aufbau archive, New York. On 28 August 2010, John M. Spalek will be awarded the Goethe Medal of the Goethe Institute. The President of the Goethe Institute, Prof. Klaus-Dieter Lehmann, will be presenting him with the official Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany at the Residenzschloss (city palace) in Weimar.
On 6 September 2010, John M. Spalek will receive another honour. Dr. Ursula Langkau-Alex, chair of the Gesellschaft für Exilforschung e.V. (Society for Exile Research), will be granting him honorary membership of the society at the German National Library in Frankfurt am Main.

Images from the ceremony awarding honorary membership of the Gesellschaft für Exilforschung e. V. to Professor John M. Spalek

Elisabeth Niggemann, Generaldirektorin der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek Copyright: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek / Ute Bärmann

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