#24 Nora Schramm liest aus „Hohle Räume“

HAB gehört meets HAB gelesen

In „Hohle Räume“ kehrt Helene, eine Künstlerin in den Dreißigern, ins elterliche Haus zurück – Anlass ist die anstehende Scheidung ihrer Eltern. Was als Besuch in vertrauter Umgebung beginnt, entwickelt sich zu einer intensiven Auseinandersetzung mit Mutter, Vater, und dem, was den Namen „Zuhause“ trägt.

From Marginalia to Karaoke: A Participant’s Reflections on the 47th Wolfenbüttel Summer Course

From July 27th to August 8th, 2025, the Herzog August Bibliothek hosted its 47th annual summer course, this year entitled “Beyond the Cloister Walls: Networks, Knowledge, and Identity in Late Medieval Manuscripts.” The course was expertly led by Prof. Dr. Marc-Aeilko Aris (University of Munich) and Prof. Dr. Alessandra Beccarisi (University of Foggia).

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.

#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.

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?

50 years of fellowships at the HAB

Half a century of research funding

The Herzog August Bibliothek is celebrating a special anniversary in 2025.

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.

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.

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.

HAB gehört

The podcast of the Herzog August Bibliothek

The Herzog August Bibliothek has many faces – both literally and figuratively. In HAB gehört we spotlight them, allowing you to take a closer look at the wide range of content HAB has to offer.