New: On-site donation terminal

published 18.05.2026

Donation terminals are now available at our premises in Leipzig and Frankfurt am Main. This allows you to support the German National Library directly at any time – it’s simple and flexible. In Frankfurt am Main, the terminal is located to the right of the building entrance, and in Leipzig, it is in the foyer next to the staircase on the right. Donations are used to support and promote a wide range of initiatives, such as projects, digitisation schemes, educational programmes and activities to strengthen democracy. Donations can be made electronically via card or smartphone. You can choose from pre-set or customised amounts.

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The German Exile Archive is part of the EHRI-DE consortium

published 07.05.2026

In early February, the EHRI-DE “National Node“ for Germany was established as part of the European Holocaust Research Infrastructure (EHRI). EHRI-DE is coordinated by the Center for Holocaust Studies at the Leibniz Institute for Contemporary History. The consortium currently comprises the German Exile Archive 1933–1945, the Federal Archives, the Arolsen Archives, the Fritz Bauer Institute and the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe.

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Our new service: Information via chatbot

published 28.04.2026

The German National Library now offers a chat-based information service on its website, even outside of service hours. Our chatbot can assist you with a wide range of enquiries regarding our services and also collects valuable feedback to help us improve what we offer. This ensures our service remains up to date and adapts to your needs. Get to know our Info-Bot and start a conversation with it.

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Fiction corpus: DeLiKo@DNB

published 22.04.2026

With DeLiKo@DNB, the German National Library, in cooperation with the Leibniz Institute for the German Language (IDS), is making the largest German-language corpus of fictional texts available to the academic community. The corpus analysis platform KorAP provides, for the first time, free access to nearly 300,000 fiction e-books published between 2012 and 2024, as well as to all digitally available novels ever nominated for the German Book Prize. A total of 20.9 billion tokens can be flexibly searched and analysed.

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A gumball machine at the DBSM

published 09.04.2026

From April to June 2026, there will be a chewing gum machine for visitors at the German Museum of Books and Writing. Instead of chewing gum, it provides thoughts to chew over: each capsule contains a question from one of the categories “Reflecting on media use“, “Politics and political education“ or “Thinking the impossible“ (JoDDID). Based on the principle of “take one - give one“, you take a question with you and, when you return the ball, leave a note indicating where you’re from (Leipzig, within a 20 km radius, or further afield). The chewing gum machine is on loan from JoDDiD and works without coins.

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