Press

Information for media representatives

Press contact

We will be pleased to answer your questions, provide you with information material or organise appointments for interviews or visits to our premises.

Peter Schnitzlein
Spokesman
Phone:  +49 89 28638-2429
Fax:  +49 89 28638-2116
presse@bsb-muenchen.de

Ulrike Rehusch
Phone:  +49 89 28638-2057
Fax:  +49 89 28638-2116
presse@bsb-muenchen.de

Irma Bachhammer
Phone:  +49 89 28638-2024
Fax:  +49 89 28638-2116
presse@bavarikon.de
(Press office cultural portal bavarikon)
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
Communications Department
Ludwigstraße 16
80539 Munich

Photo shootings, film and TV recordings

In case you wish to use the library's holdings (manuscripts, books or journals, for example) or the library's premises for photo shootings, film and TV recordings, we will establish contact with the right persons.

Please note that any recordings which are not connected to reporting about the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek are subject to prior approval and possibly a charge.

The library as a source collection

In case you require library materials (books, newspapers, manuscripts, etc.) for your research and you are not reporting about the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek itself, the employees in charge of the corresponding specialised departments and collections will be pleased to be of assistance.

Media distribution list

Would you like to be entered in our media distribution list or have your contact data changed? Please let us know.
presse@bsb-muenchen.de

General information

Information about the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
Information about the library's directorate

 

Current press releases

The Bayerische Staatsbibliothek has acquired the photo archive of Karsten de Riese, which includes around 390,000 images. With this important document of analogue photography in Germany in the second half of the 20th century, the library further expands its already extensive Image Archive, which is the largest of its kind held by any public-sector institution in Germany.

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The Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (BSB), Germany’s largest research and universal library, will migrate its library services to the cloud-based Alma® platform by Ex Libris. For almost 20 years, the BSB had used a local system that was becoming increasingly complex and meeting the limits of its performance capability. The transition to the cloud-based software as a service solution by Ex Libris, a company of the ProQuest group, is intended to significantly boost efficiency and user friendliness.

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The cultural portal bavarikon presents the virtual exhibition "König Ludwig II. von Bayern – Leben, Spuren, Mythos" ("King Ludwig II of Bavaria – Life, legacy, legend") including 150 objects from 12 Bavarian cultural institutions. Everybody interested in culture and all Ludwig fans can now walk in the footsteps of the fairytale king – online at the address www.bavarikon.de/ludwig2.

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