literaturbewegen

Deutsche Schillergesellschaft e.V.

About this app

“I want to know what’s actually going on inside a book while it’s closed. Of course, it’s just 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 at it, not just reading it, is one of over 180 exhibits on display in the permanent exhibition at the Museum of Modern Literature.

These exhibits are like closed books. Of course, they’re mostly just made of paper, and often they contain only letters… but still: with them, we experience how literature was created, what remains of it in an archive like the German Literature Archive in Marbach, why texts are the way they are, what stories lie hidden behind them or unfold at their edges, how other people read them, and much more.






... With the AR app "literaturbewegen" (moving literature), visitors can experience these exhibits in the museum and at home in a new way: They can display other levels of reality that, in short sequences, unfold movements and sounds, symbols, structures, figures, images, and stories from these silent and static archival materials.

At the Museum of Modern Literature, these exhibits are specially marked with a sticker and take visitors on a journey through the 20th century – from Hermann Hesse, Christian Morgenstern, and Rainer Maria Rilke to Franz Kafka, Else Lasker-Schüler, Alfred Döblin, and Erich Kästner, and on to Gottfried Benn, Hilde Domin, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, and W.G. Sebald.

With a flipbook (https://kurzlinks.de/384), they can also be brought to life at home. Simply point your tablet or smartphone camera at them and: move literature!

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