Universitätsbibliothek.Newsletter

Since the 2005 opening the library has been far more than just a place of knowledge: it is a meeting spot, event location and place of daily learning for students. The Bauhaus-Universität Weimar commemorated the 20 year anniversary of library operations in the new building with a celebration in the Maurice-Halbwachs-Auditorium. University president Prof. Peter Benz held the opening speech, followed by birthday greetings from the students relayed by Daniel Kleine-Kraneburg, member of the university library advisory board, and an address by Prof. Dr. Helmut Heit, head of research at the Klassik Stiftung Weimar Kolleg Friedrich Nietzsche. Finally, library director Dr. Frank Simon-Ritz took the audience on a journey across two decades of library history – from laying the foundations and the start of construction to the bustling learning space of today. A small reception on the lower floor gave guests and staff the opportunity to mingle and bring the celebration to a relaxed end.
We’re looking forward to the coming decades in a library that’s certain to experience further change.

In October 2025 we started a project to further index the film research collection of Heimo Bachstein (1937 – 2011). The books and periodicals we received as a donation on 2010 are already indexed in our collection and available to users. We now begin indexing the film art archive objects created along with films, such as photographs, posters, reviews and programmes. Along with the films themselves, they document media distribution practices as well as the collector’s approach.
65 meters of these materials are currently kept in the library’s closed stacks and will now be indexed systematically over the course of the project’s initial runtime of one year, starting with around 22,000 photographs. These images feature film creators, actors and production shots from film history since the 1950s. We aim to make the photos broadly available on the »Kalliope« platform especially for researchers.
Please direct any questions about the collection to Elisa Goldammer, research associate, and Dr. Katrin Richter, subject librarian.

From October 2nd until November 9th the university library hosts an exhibition on the history of women's suffrage and invites you to rediscover its history and reflect on its significance for the present. The exhibition particularly highlights the biographies of women who were active in city and communal councils, a perspective that previously received little attention.
The exhibition is presented by the international heritage center at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar and supported by the university as part of its current initiative to strengthen democracy.
On October 24th at 5.30 pm the university library lounge will host an event complementing the exhibition. Henriette Bertram, junior professor of Gender.Ing at TU Braunschweig, will speak on current issues in gender equality in urban space. This event is supported by the city of Weimar.
Judy Slivi of Arbeit und Leben Thüringen, curator of the exhibition, will also introduce the concept behind exhibition.