Press archive

The Bayerische Staatsbibliothek acquires the entire photographic work of Isolde Ohlbaum from 1970 up to the present, composed of black-and-white negatives, coloured slides and image files. The archive also includes voluminous correspondence with portrayed persons of the literary and cultural life. With this outstanding document of photography of Germany, the library further expands its already extensive Image Archive, which is the largest of its kind held by any public-sector institution in Germany. The transition of the archive to the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek takes place in four parts up to the end of 2025.

The Joint Science Conference of the Federal State and the Laender took a decision on the applications of the third call for tender round for the national research data infrastructure (Nationale Forschungsdateninfrastruktur, NFDI) at their meeting on 4 November 2022. The consortium NFDI4Memory coordinated under the lead of the Leibniz Institute for European History, Mainz, was approved.

More than 3,000 volumes are comprised by the top-class collection of medicine-historical works donated to the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek by Prof. Dr. med. Dr. h. c. mult. Gerd Plewig, long-time Director of the Hospital and Polyclinic for Dermatology and Allergology in Munich, and his wife Dr. med. Helga Lincke-Plewig. The so-called "Bibliotheca Historia Dermatologiae" contains important, rare and unique medical printed works from five centuries, among them valuable editions of the work by Andreas Vesalius (1514 – 1564), anatomist and personal doctor of Emperor Charles V and King Philip II of Spain.