Our event program 2024

"Jour Fixe" becomes “Treffpunkt Gutenberg”
Our successful series of events „Jour Fixe“ is getting a new name. It will be renamed „Treffpunkt Gutenberg“, to make it clearer that everyone who is interested in topics related to Gutenberg is cordially invited to the public evenings.
Take a look at our current program – we are sure there’s something for everyone on the menue. We look forward to seeing you there !

Please register by e-mail to freunde@gutenberg-stiftung.de or by telephone on 06131/226420.

Here's what awaits us in 2024:

26.01. | Mainz Colloquium 2024
„Auctioned, sold off, disposed ?
Analysis of the market for used books“
The XXIX Mainz Colloquium discusses developments with experts from the book industry.
LOCATION: JGU Atrium Maximum, Johann-Joachim-Becher-Weg 5, 55128 Mainz | TIME: 9 am – 5 pm
HOST: Gutenberg Institute for World Literature and Written Media, Department of Book Studies, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, in cooperation with IGG
REGISTRATION: sekretariat-buchwissenschaft(at)uni-mainz.de

08.02. | Longdrinks
Student discussion panel on an exciting, current topic from the book and media industry
LOCATION: to be announced 
TIME: 6 pm
HOST: IGG

22.02. | Final Round – Looking Back to the Future
Curator guided tour for members and Gute Freunde only through the permanent exhibition of the Gutenberg Museum
LOCATION: Gutenberg-Museum Mainz 
TIME: 6 pm
HOST: IGG, GS and GM

21.03. | Treffpunkt Gutenberg
Public lecture with discussion and a glass of wine afterwards
Joost Depuydt, Museum Plantin-Moretus, Antwerpen
TITLE: Museum Plantin-Moretus (Antwerp), a typographic
walhalla with a gigantic woodblock collection
Lecture on the history and collections of the Museum
Plantin-Moretus, with the focus on the typographical
collections and woodblocks.
The lecture will be held in English.
LOCATION: Gutenberg-Museum Mainz | TIME: 6 pm
HOST: IGG, GS and GM

11.04. | Treffpunkt Gutenberg
Public lecture with discussion and a glass of wine afterwards
Sarah Zabel, Kuratorin Technikgeschichte, Gutenberg-Museum Mainz
TITLE: „ … the greatest improvement connected with printing, since the discovery of the art itself.“ This is how The Times, London,
announces its first use of a steam-powered cylinder press in November 1814. The lecture deals with the development of this groundbreaking invention.
LOCATION: Gutenberg-Museum Mainz 
TIME: 6 pm
HOST: IGG, GS and GM

02.05. | Treffpunkt Gutenberg
Public lecture with discussion and a glass of wine afterwards
Nathalie Neumann M.A., Institut für Kunstgeschichte und
Musikwissenschaften, JGU Mainz
TITLE: ”Should you attach importance to my presence at the meetings ...“ Felix Ganz wrote on 8.12.1922. A lecture on the enterprising Felix Ganz, director of Ludwig Ganz AG Mainz and his time and strategies as Managing Director of the Gutenberg Society.
LOCATION: Gutenberg-Museum Mainz 
TIME: 6 pm
HOST: IGG, GS and GM

16.05. | Longdrinks
Student discussion panel on an exciting, current topic from the book and media industry
LOCATION: to be announced 
TIME: 6 pm
HOST: IGG

22.06. | 123rd Annual General Meeting
of the International Gutenberg Society
The members‘ event will be followed by a ceremony organized by the Gutenberg Society and the City of Mainz: 
Awarding of the Gutenberg Prize 2024
for outstanding artistic, technical or scientific achievement in the field of printing. 
The Gutenberg Table is held as a convivial finale.
LOCATION: Kurfürstliches Schloss 
TIME: 11 am
HOST: IGG and the City of Mainz

Opening of interim location Gutenberg-Museum
LOCATION: Reichsklarastraße 1
TIME: 10 – 17 Uhr
HOST: GM

Gutenberg Museum – MOVED
During the first half of the year, we will be using the museum‘s lecture hall for our „Treffpunkt Gutenberg“. During the summer, the Gutenberg Museum will then move to its interim location next to the Natural History Museum.
The interim location will open on 22.06.2024.