Newsletter 08.2025
1. PressReader trial access – digital papers and magazines in full text
More than 7,500 international magazines and newspapers from more than 100 countries in more than 60 languages - discover the wide range of PressReader until October 3rd! Whether you're after current headlines or niche topics, international press or local daily papers, the broad range covers pretty much all languages and areas of interest or geography.
The service is available on Munzinger Online, initially as a campus-wide test run. You can find more information and start your search in the database information system DBIS.
We'd love to receive your feedback on the trial run.
By the way: you can find more papers and magazines licensed to the Weimar university library on DBIS, too.
2. Improved access to TGL document thanks to a collaboration with the German National Library
You can now access around 18,700 East German technical standards files - Technische Normen, Gütevorschriften und Lieferbedingungen (TGL) - in our library catalogue and in our discovery system BibSearch, made possible by a large-scale scan project at the German National Library in conjunction with a common metadata exchange.
Our own TGL collection remains available on our website.
3. Alumni talk № 34 with Winfried Simmat now online
In a talk with library director Frank Simon-Ritz, Winfried Simmat lets us know about his eventful life. In autumn 1959 he became a sports instructor at the Hochschule für Architektur und Bauwesen (HAB) and remained a sports instructor and trainer for more than 40 years until retiring in 2001, serving as head of the university sports centre from 1991. Simmat tells us how the role of sports changed along with society in his long professional life and talks about the state sponsored enthusiams for sports in East Germany as well as about the partially close relationship of physical and military training in the GDR system.
The Alumni talk with Winfried Simmat continues the series of talks on the history of the university organized by the Alumni office together with the university archive and the university library.
4. Semester start in the university library
The library welcomes the new winter semester students and will help them kick off their studies. During Student Orientation Week we’ll hold the online presentation »More than just books - a university library introduction« on October 2nd, and we’ll be offering library introduction tours from Oct 6th to 10th. We’re looking forward to meeting all first year students, and would like to ask all visitors for patience if it gets a bit louder during the initial weeks of the semester. Your library visits may be especially impacted on October 15th due to the welcome ceremony in the Maurice Halbwachs Auditorium. We recommend the Limona building for quieter conditions.
5. It’s an anniversary: 20 years in the library main building
It’s been 20 years since the main library and auditorium building of Bauhaus-Universität Weimar in Steubenstrasse opened its doors. On September 19th 2005 we started a trial run, and right on time for the start of the 2005/06 winter semester the new library was ready to go with basically no restrictions. The librarians had made it through weeks of moving in from several different locations, certainly the most eventful period of their careers, and were taking the first »baby steps« in the new building.
We’re going to remember this period and the 20 years of successfully running the library since then with a small ceremony in the Maurice Halbwachs Auditorium on October 10th 2025 at 11 am. Prof. Peter Benz, president of Bauhaus-Universität, will give a brief introduction before a student representative relays birthday greetings. We were able to get Prof. Dr. Helmut Heit, head of the Kolleg Friedrich Nietzsche at Klassik Stiftung Weimar, to give us an outside look at the library. Finally, library director Dr. Frank Simon-Ritz will review the construction and moving periods and the 20 years in the new building, aided by photographies from across the years. Following the ceremony there will be a small gathering in the lower entrance area.
6. Upcoming closing days and altered opening hours
Due to federal and state holidays, the university library will be closed on Saturday, Sep 20th (Children's Day), Friday, Oct 3rd (German Unity Day) and Friday, Oct 31st (Reformation Day). In addition, on the weekend of the Weimar onion market, the library will close at 6 pm on Friday, Oct 10th and be closed altogether on Saturday, Oct 11th.
Stefanie Röhl
Sachgebietsleiterin
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