#26 Christina Morina liest „Tausend Aufbrüche. Die Deutschen und ihre Demokratie seit den 1980er-Jahren“
HAB gehört meets HAB gelesen
Die Lesung fand am 23. Oktober 2025 im Gartensaal des Lessinghauses der Herzog August Bibliothek statt.
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Library Ewige Blüten
Ein Stundenbuch aus der Sammlung Herzog Augusts d. J.
Farbenfrohe Bilder auf Pergamentseiten veranschaulichen eine im Spätmittelalter beliebte Verbindung von Gebet und Kunst. Das kleine, aber feine Stundenbuch aus der Sammlung der Herzog August Bibliothek in Wolfenbüttel lässt erahnen, wie christliche Tagesgebete mit der Lebenswelt verknüpft – und gleichzeitig die Zeiterfahrung „geheiligt“ wurde.
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Culture In search of Gotthold & Eva
A digital paper chase through the exhibition ‘Lessing’s life and work in Wolfenbüttel’
Visitors are invited to explore the Lessinghaus in a light-hearted way together with Gotthold Ephraim Lessing and Eva König. The route is packed with tasks and puzzles that explore the exhibition’s key themes in more detail and must be solved using the Actionbound app.
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Info #22 HAB gehört meets HAB gelesen
Roman Ehrlich reads from Videotime
Videotime was the name of the video store where the narrator in Roman Ehrlich’s film rented out countless films with his father, in order to copy them onto blank VHS tapes at home. The story is set in the nineties in a small town in Bavaria, where the seemingly peaceful state of things is cast in strange, unfamiliar light by the eeriness of the films.
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Info A ”little Princeton” in Wolfenbüttel?
A fellowship programme in the making
The Herzog August Bibliothek celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of its fellowship programme this year – a perfect opportunity for a deep dive into the recent past. What motivated the library to set up a programme offering scholarships? What makes this programme so special? And, moreover, to what extent is this tradition still alive today?
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Research A testimony to ecclesiastical natural history and an archive of historical biodiversity
The Herbarium Ruperti (1700) of the HAB
The project aims to digitise and produce an in-depth catalogue of the Herbarium Ruperti, coupled with an analysis of its cultural history and its place within the history of science. This unique three-volume collection of herbaria from the early modern period was created around 1700 by a pietist theologian and presents some 1,300 dried plants from what is now Lower Saxony.
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Info Visual expressions of war
An Interview with Clifton Meador – awardee of the Artists’ Book Prize 2024
In this episode of "Hab gehört," we are joined by Clifton Meador, the winner of the Herzog August Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel and Curt Mast Jägermeister Stiftung Artists' Book Prize. Clifton Meador, book artist and Professor of Graphic Design and Graphic Communication, shares insights into his captivating project that intertwines art and history.
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Library HAB-Repository
The institutional publication platform of the Herzog August Bibliothek
The new Herzog August Bibliothek online platform for publications is launching in style with unlimited free access to forty retro-digitised works that were brought out by the library’s own publishing arm. Further existing scholarly publications – which have previously appeared in print – and research data will be added on a rolling basis.
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