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Leipzig: 30.10.to 03.11.2025

Leipzig, 30.10.2025 to 03.11.2025:The multimedia/periodical reading room and the map reading room are closed from 30.10 to 03.11.

Leipzig: Saturday 8 November 2025

The museum reading room in Leipzig will be closed on Saturday, 8 November. The exhibitions of the German Museum of Books and Writing will open from 10:00 to 18:00.

News from the exile collections

Ausschnitt der illustrierten Titelseite des London Diary von Lili Cassel. Ein zeichnendes Mädchen sitzt zwischen Wolken vermutlich auf einem Sperrballon zur Abwehr von Luftangriffen. Die Illustrationen sind mit Tusche und Wasserfarben gemalt.

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

John M. Spalek John M. Spalek

Prof. Dr. John M. Spalek has been a leading figure in the field of research into German-speaking exile in the USA for nearly forty years. He has been closely associated with the German Exile Archive 1933–1945 at the German National Library since the early 1970s. To date, Spalek has contributed 89 estates and partial estates from academics, publicists, authors and artists exiled in the USA to the German Exile Archive 1933–1945.

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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  1. Ruth Weiss (1924 – 2025) – In memoriam
  2. Dr. Vincent C. Frank Steiner (1930–2025) – In memoriam
  3. Hans Günter Flieg (1923–2024) – in memoriam
  4. Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer (1928–2024) – in memoriam
  5. Guy Stern (1922–2023) – in memoriam
  6. Trude Simonsohn (1921-2022) – in memoriam
  7. “Child Emigration from Frankfurt am Main. Stories of rescue, loss and remembrance”
  8. Questionnaires as a source for researching German-speaking exile – using Alfred Kantorowicz as an example
  9. Professor Dr. John M. Spalek (1928-2021) in memoriam
  10. Lieselotte Maas (1937-2020) – In memoriam
  11. Ruth Klüger (1931-2020) – in memoriam
  12. "What should I cook?" Recipes from the German Exile Archive 1933-1945
  13. Hellmut Stern (1928-2020) - In memoriam
  14. Thomas Mann: German listeners! – listening station on the topic of exile outside our Frankfurt building
  15. Publication of exhibition catalogue “Exile. Experience and Testimony”
  16. Focusing on the topic of exile – the history magazine "Damals" ("Yesteryear") is published in collaboration with the German Exile Archive 1933–1945
  17. Dora Schindel (1915–2018) – In memoriam
  18. Werner Berthold (1921–2017) – In memoriam
  19. Rolf Kralovitz (1925 - 2015) – In memoriam
  20. Buddy Elias – In memoriam
  21. Arts in Exile – virtual exhibition and network
  22. Brigitte Kralovitz-Meckauer (1925–2014) – in memoriam
  23. Ludwig Werner Kahn - 100th birthday
  24. Goethe Medal and honorary membership of the Gesellschaft für Exilforschung e.V. awarded to Professor John M. Spalek
  25. "Nestor of German finance" - Fritz Neumark's 110th birthday
  26. Book donation for the German National Library
  27. "A prisoner of Stalin and Hitler" - 20 years since the death of Margarete Buber-Neumann
  28. The founder of futurology – the 100th birthday of Ossip K. Flechtheim
  29. On the death of lyricist Emma Kann
  30. Nestor of exile research 1933–1945 in the USA - the 80th birthday of Prof. Dr. John M. Spalek
  31. Pre-mortem legacy of politologist John G. Stoessinger in the German Exile Archive 1933-1945
  32. Lili Cassel Wronker: A London Diary, 1939-1940
  33. Chronicler of her century – 90th birthday of Anja Lundholm
  34. Reichsausbürgerungskartei
  35. Hans Gustav Güterbock
  36. Geneviève Pitot: The Mauritian-Shekel

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