“I want to know whats actually going on in a book while its closed. Of course there are only letters printed on paper, but still…” muses Bastian Balthasar Bux in Michael Ende’s The Neverending Story. The manuscript of the novel, in which Bastian explores the world of literature by looking and not just reading, is one of over 180 exhibits that we show in the permanent exhibition in the Modern Literature Museum. These exhibits are like closed books. Of course, they are mostly just made of paper and there are often only letters in them... but still: with them we experience how literature was made, what remains of it in an archive like the German Literature Archive in Marbach, why texts are one way and not another, what stories are hidden behind them or happen on their edges, how other people read them and much more. With the AR app literaturbewegen, visitors can read these exhibits in the museum and at home in a new way: They can display other levels of reality that show movements and sounds, signs, structures, figures, images, etc. in short sequences from these silent and still archive materials Stories unfold.In the Modern Literature Museum, these exhibits are specially marked with a sticker and lead right through the 20th century - from Hermann Hesse, Christian Morgenstern and Rainer Maria Rilke to Franz Kafka, Else Lasker-Schuler, Alfred Döblin and Erich Kästner to Gottfried Benn and Hilde Domin , Hans Magnus Enzensberger and W.G. Sebald.With a flipbook (https://kurzlinks.de/382h) you can also get moving at home. Simply point the camera on your tablet or smartphone at it and: move literature!
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