Lucia means "the shining one," "the radiant one." She lived in Sicily at the end of the 3rd century and helped persecuted people and fugitives who sought refuge in caves and catacombs. Lucia provided…
This is the fourth year that the International Youth Library Foundation and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (BRSO) have presented NotenTexte. These children's concerts combine language and…
Final presentation of the writing workshop with Sophia Klink and Beate Schäfer
How do you make a literary text captivating and interesting? The workshop for young authors at the International Youth…
The Nationwide Reading Day is an initiative of the Reading Foundation, the weekly newspaper DIE ZEIT and the Deutsche Bahn Foundation. It is the largest reading aloud festival in Germany. The…
For more than 30 years, the atmospheric Festival of Lights has been held on the first weekend in December as part of the Blutenburg Christmas Market. The little houses of light, which transform the…
Lena Gorelik, born in St. Petersburg in 1981, came to Germany as a child with her Russian-Jewish parents in the early 1990s. After finishing school in Baden-Württemberg, she went to the German School…
The motif of the strange child pervades literature from all eras and genres. Since the ‘discovery of childhood’ by Rousseau in the second half of the 18th century and by the Romantics at the…
Jella Lepman's founding of the International Youth Library immediately after the end of the Second World War was an unusually idealistic and positive project of hope in a time of total destruction,…
The Michael Ende Museum in the International Youth Library houses a large part of Michael Ende's personal estate, including furniture, books, pictures, his stone collection, his guitar and much more.…