It is scarcely known that Ödön von Horváth and Oskar Maria Graf know each other well and go a stretch of the road together between 1925 and 1933. The life of the poets and friends at that time took place in Munich, around the Schellingstrasse. A walk described in the "Literature Portal Bavaria" now reconstructs the traces of the development of the two authors' lives and work as poets.

From "Aeschylus" to "Xenophon", from "American Music Theory, 1955-2010" to "Woodwind Instruments" – the database "Oxford Bibliographies" offers English-language articles on the respective topics as well as commented selected bibliographies.

Available since 29 April 2013, the new app "Bayern in historischen Karten" (Bavaria in historical maps) by the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek offers a special type of digital experience: Make a fascinating journey through time by browsing Bavaria's historical maps on your tablet or smart phone.

Karl Amadeus Hartmann's precious autograph of his symphonic overture has been kept safe by the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek already since 1977. It forms part of the possessions of Bettina Mingotti. According to the dedication, Hartmann gave the 86-page clean copy of the orchestral work from 1942 to the musician and publicist Antonio Mingotti (1900-1974) in the year 1962. After the death of Bettina Mingotti in October 2012 the work was now given to the library as a present by her husband Günter Zachariasen, as she had requested.

On 16 April 2013 the portal "bavarikon - Kultur und Wissensschätze Bayerns" (culture and gems of knowledge of Bavaria) was launched. It is intended to make important testimony of Bavaria's cultural heritage accessible for everybody at any time in the future. The website, which is still under construction, already contains several thousand digital copies of archive materials, manuscripts, paintings and further museum objects, data sets about castles, maps and photographs, as well as information about locations, institutions and persons.