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…
2025 | The White Ravens A Selection of International Children‘s and Youth Literature vind y Ill. Ø ter Torse Internationale Jugendbibliothek CONTENT PREFACE ARABIC …
— The event will take place on Wednesday, 29th October 2025. —
Lena Gorelik, born in St. Petersburg in 1981, came to Germany as a child with her Russian-Jewish parents in the early 1990s.…
“Der kleine Siebenschläfer” (The Little Dormouse) is a popular German children's book series by Sabine Bohlmann that focuses on the adventures of the little dormouse and his friends.
In this…
— On the 8 & 9 October, the conference takes place in the Jella-Lepman-Hall in the International Youth Library. On the 10 October the conference takes place in the Lyrik Kabinett. —
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.…