Newsletter 12.2020
1. Closing day on September 15th and extended opening times from September 16th
Due to our annual safety inspection, the university library including the branch library at Coudraystrasse will remain closed on September 15th 2020. We are, however, all the more pleased to be able to announce extended opening times starting the following day. From September 16th, the library at Steubenstrasse 6 and 8 will be open to visitors Monday through Friday 9am to 6pm.
As before, 90 visitors at most will be able to enter the library at a time. Special conditions for browsing the shelves and working in the library will remain in place. In particular, visitors will continue to have to leave their contact details in order to trace potential infection chains. As well, general hygiene and safety regulations and the information compiled here will remain mandatory.
2. The Branch Library Building Materials / Natural Sciences is moving
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From its location at Coudraystrasse 7 – or, before 1992, 13 – the branch library Building Materials / Natural Sciences has supplied the Civil Engineering faculty and associated departments with literature and information for almost 50 years. On September 18th 2020, from 10am to 12pm, it will be open to visitors for the last time.
Its collection will of course remain intact and move to the main library from September 21st to 25th. We are planning to make the branch library‘s well organized collection available at Steubenstrasse 6 by September 28th 2020. A majority of books and the current journals will be integrated with the existing collections on the 1st and 2nd floors, while older books and journals will be available from the closed stacks. After the move, further work will be done on the branch library’s collection in order to fully integrate it with the main library collection.
3. »Neue Bauhausvorträge« no. 5 and 6 available
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar complements its publication series »Neue Bauhausvorträge« with two more contributions. Lectures held by Prof. Dr. Horst Bredekamp and Dr. Christiane Wolf held on the occasion of the »Eva« statue’s reinstatement at the main university building are now freely available online.
The online publication series »Neue Bauhausvorträge« was first published in 2017 and is edited by the president of Bauhaus-Universität Weimar Prof. Dr. Winfried Speitkamp, university library director Dr. Frank Simon-Ritz and the professor of Conservation and History of Architecture Prof. Dr. Hans-Rudolf Meier. The series ties in with the tradition of the Bauhaus lectures (»Bauhausvorträge«) published at Weimarer Bauhaus from 1919 to 1925, which looked into important scientific, social and cultural developments at the time. It is being published as Open Access on the university library’s own publication system. This guaranteed easy access and distribution.
You can find further information about the two Bauhaus lectures here.
4. Journey through time with silent movies and live music starting September 2nd
The II. Weimar silent movie retrospective, held as part of this year’s Kunstfest and titled »Overstimulation of the imagination«, will begin on September 2nd with a cinessage where Dirk Heintje (Lichthaus movie theater), Rolf Hemke (Kunstfest Weimar), Dr. Katrin Richter (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar) and Richard Siedhoff (silent movie pianist) will provide insight into the year 1920 in cinema, this year’s program and the accompanying exhibition in the Lichthaus theater. You are cordially invited! Accompanied live by internationally renowned silent movie musicians, the following rare silent movies, which could be seen in Weimar theaters one hundred years ago, will be screened:
Die Spinnen (The Spiders)
Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam (The Golem: How He Came into the World)
Romeo und Julia im Schnee (Romeo and Juliet in the Snow)
Kohlhiesels Töchter
Cabiria
Das Himmelsschiff (A Trip to Mars)
Die Bodega von Los Cuerros
Das Schloss am Abhang
Alkohol
Opfer
Die Brüder Kamarasoff (The Brothers Karamazov)
The retrospective will be enriched by Stefan Drößler’s (Munich Film Museum) talk »Auf der Suche nach dem Golem«, held on September 14th 6 pm. Further, Prof. Dr. Patrick Roessler (Erfurt University) will place the main actress in Bodega in the proper light with his introduction »Kein Starsystem! Die Anti-Diva Ria Jende« on September 8th, 7.30 pm. The Golem will be screened twice at Deutsches Nationaltheater Weimar, all other movies will be screened at Lichthaus theater.
Stefanie Röhl
Sachgebietsleiterin
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