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  1. Wolf Biermann is today handing over his archive and diaries to the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz. Ceremony at the Staatsbibliothek Unter den Linden (13.07.2021)

    With the help of the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media and the Cultural Foundation of the Federal States, the State Library acquires Wolf Biermann's private and professional archives and personal diaries. Like no other, the 84-year-old singer-songwriter's work has reflected t

  2. Building for research and cultural heritage - Staatsbibliothek Unter den Linden celebrates topping-out ceremony (05.02.2008)

    Today's topping-out ceremony in the presence of Engelbert Lütke Daldrup, State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of Building, André Schmitz, State Secretary for Culture of the State of Berlin, and Klaus-Dieter Lehmann, President of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation, marks the pleasing progre

  3. Director General of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin to the Executive Council of the World Digital Library (WDL) (25.06.2010)

    On Wednesday, representatives of the 91 institutions currently participating in the World Digital Library (WDL) elected their Executive Council in Washington. Barbara Schneider-Kempf, Director General of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, is one of the seven members who will in future define the guidel

  4. Construction progress on the federal government's largest cultural building site: First section of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz Unter den Linden has been handed over (18.04.2011)

    A few days ago, the Federal Office for Building and Regional Planning handed over the first completed rooms in the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin's Unter den Linden building to the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation. Over the next few weeks, the librarians will move into the rooms - vault storage, st

  5. Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz cooperates with Polish National Library in preserving and digitising collections (21.06.2011)

    The Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz and the Biblioteka Narodowa - Polish National Library will cooperate in the future in the areas of processing and preserving the common cultural heritage and digitising their library collections. Barbara Schneider-Kempf, Director General of t

  6. "Notturno" - Nightly chamber concert on 14 June in the new General Reading Room of the Staatsbibliothek in the Unter den Linden building (07.06.2013)

    Horn trio combined with an exclusive tour of the glass cube. As part of the chamber concert series "Notturno", which the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin has been organising in cooperation with the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation since 2010, the DSO invites you to the new General Reading R

  7. Architectural competition for the refurbishment of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin at the Kulturforum in keeping with its listed status decided (06.09.2019)

    First prize for gmp Generalplanungsgesellschaft mbH, Berlin In the course of the forthcoming major refurbishment, the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin building on Potsdamer Strasse (Kulturforum) is to be redesigned in line with its listed status so that it better meets contemporary technical and functiona

  8. Invitation to the digital opening of the Staatsbibliothek Unter den Linden (18.01.2021)

    On 25 January 2021, the main building of the Staatsbibliothek Unter den Linden will reopen digitally - after extensive refurbishment, modernisation and expansion. The structural and organisational measures have been completed and the Staatsbibliothek is ready to open the building. In his speech, Bun

  9. Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin: Sebastian Schmideler heads the children's and young adult book department (16.08.2024)

    Dr Sebastian Schmideler, currently a research assistant for children's and young adult literature and literary didactics at the University of Leipzig, will become the new head of the children's and young adult book department at the Berlin State Library on 2 September 2024. He succeeds Carola Pohlma

  10. Staatsbibliothek: Department of Manuscripts and Early Printed Books Has a New Director (28.06.2022)

    Foundation Board selects Carolin Schreiber to head the Department of Manuscripts and Early Printed Books Starting in the fall of 2022, Carolin Schreiber will head up the newly established Department of Manuscripts and Early Printed Books at the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (Berlin State Library). The