Born in 1966, Sascha Salatowsky worked for over 20 years as a  junior civil servant at the Berlin city administration. After his studies of philosophy and German language and literature and subsequent doctorate at the Freie Universität Berlin, he was active as an academic employee of the Phillipps University of Marburg. From 2011 to 2017, he was an academic employee in the project funded by the German Research Foundation "Development of the Research Library of Gotha into a place of research and study of the cultural history of Protestantism". During this time, he successfully completed the further master course of studies library and information science as a remote course of studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin. Since 2017, Sascha Salatowsky was a scientific consultant in the field of press and public relations work and academic communication at the Research Library of Gotha. He curated numerous exhibitions on various topics of the early modern era.

Sascha Salatowsky: "I am looking forward to further developing the Regional Library of Coburg together with a fantastic team, to make the library’s historical collections more visible to the public and set new impulses for research."

Sascha Salatowsky's main areas of focus will be continuing the successful work of the last years in the fields of acquisition, digitization and conveyance, here above all with schools in Coburg, as well as sharpening the library’s profile with respect to the central holdings relating to the epochs of the Reformation and confessionalisation, enlightenment and modernity.  For example, also new research topics are to be initiated which relate to the library’s collections.

Klaus Ceynowa, Director General of the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek: "I am happy to welcome Dr. Sascha Salatowsky, an excellent librarian and scholar, as the Director of the Regional State Library of Coburg, who is to emphasise the bridging function of the library for central Germany by strengthening cooperation with cultural and scholarly institutions in the city and the surroundings of Coburg, and also beyond,  in Thuringia."

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Press release  (PDF, 125 KB)  (in German)

Contact person
Peter Schnitzlein
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
Press and Public Relations
Ludwigstr. 16, 80539 Munich
Phone  +49 89 28638-2429
presse@bsb-muenchen.de

About the Regional State Library of Coburg
Since 1973, the Regional State Library of Coburg has formed part of Bavaria’s regional state libraries subordinated to the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich. The library preserves and curates all historical book collections from the territory of the Ernestine duchy or Free State of Coburg, which was autonomous up to 1918/1920. Its holdings amount to around 500,000 printed books, 400 manuscripts and 151 incunabula. The voluminous and partly outstanding collections of the 16th to the 19th century are continuously complemented by modern regional literature within the historical boundaries of the duchy of Coburg.