Ratatouille. 2025 Gutenberg Prize of the City of Leipzig goes to Anna Haifisch

12 June 2025 // The Gutenberg Prize of the City of Leipzig for 2025 will be awarded to Leipzig-based artist and illustrator Anna Haifisch. By presenting the award, the City of Leipzig is not only acknowledging the outstanding artistic quality of her work, but also Haifisch’s role as an international ambassador of the city.

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Kathrin Brannemann has been appointed new Director of the German National Library in Frankfurt

11 June 2025 // The Administrative Council of the German National Library has approved the decision of the selection committee to appoint Kathrin Brannemann as new Director of the German National Library in Frankfurt am Main.

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Joint restitution

14 libraries and archives return books from the Raoul Fernand Jellinek-Mercedes collection

8 May 2025 // 14 German libraries and archives have returned a total of 41 books that formerly belonged to the Austrian writer Raoul Fernand Jellinek-Mercedes (1888 Algiers-1939 Baden near Vienna) in a joint act of restitution coordinated by the German National Library. After the 'annexation' of Austria in March 1938, Jellinek-Mercedes was persecuted on account of his Jewish origins. In February 1939, the strain of the repression caused him to take his own life.

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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

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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

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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.

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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.

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Archived press releases

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