Museum of Modern Literature
The Museum of Modern Literature ( LiMo ) is part of the German Literature Archive in Marbach and stands on the Schillerhöhe ( Marbach am Neckar).
History
The handover of the building took place on 9 January 2006, the official opening on 6 June 2006 in the presence of Federal President Horst Köhler.
Architecture of the Museum of Modern Literature
The LiMo was designed by British architect David Chipperfield Architects and won the RIBA Stirling Prize 2007 of the Royal Institute of British Architects and was awarded the German Architecture Award 2007. Project architect was Alexander Black.
The building blends classic architectural motifs, such as the one peripteros with modern elements and materials such as wood, shell limestone, exposed concrete and stone.
Structure and exhibits of the LiMo
The museum displays on 1000 m² of exhibits from the collections of the German Literature Archive in the 20th century and the present.
The permanent exhibition is divided into three rooms. In space fluxus introducing prominent curators present their personal literature of the present; in space stilus visitors can browse the interactive museum guide through modern literature; and finally the space nexus. This is the core of the exhibition, he shows the traces that people leave in and with the literature. There are around 1,300 exhibits on display, including letters and certificates, identity cards, notebooks, photo albums, favorite books and mementos such as list boxes by Hans Blumenberg, Thomas Mann's christening gown or Hans -Georg Gadamer's scissors, manuscripts of Kafka's The Trial, Hesse's Steppenwolf, Döblin's Alexanderplatz, Kästner's Emil and the Detectives. In addition to the permanent exhibition there is also room for temporary exhibitions.
Temporary exhibitions
In 2009 the exhibition was " autopsy Schiller. A literary investigation " to see. She recalled the 250th birthday of Friedrich Schiller.
- 2010: The first exhibition in 2010 entitled marginal drawings presented drawings of different authors on their manuscripts.
- 2010: German spirit. An American Dream; Exhibition catalog of Ernst Osterkamp and David E. Berry Well: Marbach Magazine 132, 2010 ISBN 978-3-937384-68-9
- 2011: fate. 7 times 7 inescapable things: letters, books and objects to topic Force of Destiny
- 2011: Letters to Ottla. By Franz Kafka and other
Objectives of the LiMo
The purpose of the LiMo is in his own words: "The fact that archives are the memory of our culture that they record the traces of life, everyday coincidences, and the great history as well as the work on the artistic structured text, which are platitudes that changing under a year should be made leitmotifs to the test. "
It wants to be additional " window in the richest literary archive in the German-speaking area ", will inaugurate " in the various modes of aesthetic thinking, writing and reading " and " lead cultural tradition shapes and historical contexts in mind. " ( Quotes for self- representation )
Management of the LiMo
The Museum of Modern Literature is headed by Dr. Heike Gfrereis.
Secondary literature
Sonja Lehmann: alienated, revived. Notes on aesthetics and presentation method in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Literature. In: Lyrics practice. Digital Journal of Philology 2 /2011. Digitalisat