From 4 March to 30 June 2021 we turn our attention to meat, following it from the table back via the butcher’s shop and the slaughterhouse to the farm. We reveal what’s in the meat we consume, where it comes from, and where its future lies. The exhibition features fascinating objects from the collections of the Swiss National Library, including Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s visions of butchers, Daniel Spoerri’s Eat Art, Bell sausage advertisements and much more.
Damian Elsig has been appointed director of the Swiss National Library and will take up his post on 16 August 2021. He will succeed Marie-Christine Doffey, who has been leading the institution since April 2005 and who will retire at the end of June.
The library is open to the public. Guided tours for groups of up to 12 people are being allowed. Changes may occur at short notice depending on the course of the pandemic.
The collections of the Swiss National Library consist of books, newspapers and periodicals, websites, maps and atlases, university and corporate publications, official publications and printed music.
The image documents in the National Library’s Prints and Drawings Department include prints from the 17th to the 20th centuries, photographs, postcards and posters as well as editions/portfolios and books containing original graphic works.
The National Library’s Literary Archives are home to the leading
collection of literary estates, libraries and archives from authors of
the 20th and 21st centuries.
The Swiss National Sound Archives in Lugano collect sound recordings and preserve them for posterity. They have been archiving Switzerland’s audio heritage and making it available to anyone with an interest since 1987.
Den Strafrechtler Peter Noll verband eine tiefe Freundschaft mit Max Frisch. Sie reicht vom Pfannenstiel bis nach Ägypten und weit ins Werk hinein.
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