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Reply #25 - 23.11.2010 at 17:48:04

Now see also Werner Hofmann: Den Schatz bergen (probably from "Die Zeit" 2010-11-11). (Found thanks to the Warburg Institute's presence on facebook.)

Hofmann pleads for "buying back" the Warburg Institute's library ("die Londoner Bibliothek zurückzukaufen" - I'm not sure whether to interpret this as him saying that he's interested only in the pre-transferral collection), and using it for a (new?) non-universitarian institution dedicated to "Bildwissenschaft" (some sort of history of art) making use of works of art housed in Hamburg museums.

Nothing in that text about "the study of the classical tradition", nothing about the study of thought, literature, institutions; nothing about the Warburg Institute's staff; nothing about the fellowships, post-1933 donations ... .

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Grass on the future of Warburg Institute library
Reply #26 - 08.02.2011 at 09:06:56

Nobel prize laureate Günter Grass apparently demands that Hamburg should acquire the Warburg Institute's library (as reported by dpa): see http://www.welt.de/newsticker/dpa_nt/infoline_nt/boulevard_nt/article12463975/Gu enter-Grass-kritisiert-Hamburger-Kulturpolitik.html & http://www.focus.de/kultur/diverses/kultur-guenter-grass-kritisiert-hamburger-ku lturpolitik_aid_597381.html :
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Außerdem appellierte er an die Stadt Hamburg, die in der Nazi-Zeit nach Großbritannien gebrachte Warburg-Bibliothek wieder zurückzukaufen.

Once again: "buying back" ("zurückzukaufen") - as if that library had ever been property of the Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg. - And: Once again: no mention of the Warburg Institute, its mission, its staff, &c.
Potential explanations i.a.: Electioneering & carnival. (No, I don't do "mentalities"; hence I don't offer "that special Hamburg mentality" as an alternative explanation.)

Found thanks to http://www.zeit.de/wissen/2011-02/aby-warburg?page=2 - which, iun turn, I found thanks to Gábor Endrődi's https://twitter.com/#!/1100sor/status/34803767937339393 .

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Reply #27 - 09.02.2011 at 10:12:44

Quote from hck on 08.02.2011 at 09:06:56:

Nobel prize laureate Günter Grass apparently demands that Hamburg should acquire the Warburg Institute's library (as reported by dpa): see http://www.welt.de/newsticker/dpa_nt/infoline_nt/boulevard_nt/article12463975/Gu enter-Grass-kritisiert-Hamburger-Kulturpolitik.html & http://www.focus.de/kultur/diverses/kultur-guenter-grass-kritisiert-hamburger-ku lturpolitik_aid_597381.html :
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Außerdem appellierte er an die Stadt Hamburg, die in der Nazi-Zeit nach Großbritannien gebrachte Warburg-Bibliothek wieder zurückzukaufen.

Once again: "buying back" ("zurückzukaufen") - as if that library had ever been property of the Freie und Hansestadt Hamburg. - And: Once again: no mention of the Warburg Institute, its mission, its staff, &c.
Potential explanations i.a.: Electioneering & carnival. (No, I don't do "mentalities"; hence I don't offer "that special Hamburg mentality" as an alternative explanation.)

Found thanks to http://www.zeit.de/wissen/2011-02/aby-warburg?page=2 - which, iun turn, I found thanks to Gábor Endrődi's https://twitter.com/#!/1100sor/status/34803767937339393 .

This is now mentioned/commented on by Evan F. Kuehn in Clavi non defixi: a blog for research in historical and systematic theology at http://nondefixi.blogspot.com/2011/02/few-items.html :
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Heinrich Kuhn notes an odd call by Günter Grass for Hamburg to buy up the Wartburg Institute's library. Not sure quite what to make of this.

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JanVanEyck Forum Member Posts: 2	Re: Rumours & reports about Warburg Institute trou Reply #28 - 02.03.2012 at 16:55:07 Does anybody know what happened regarding this? Ucl seem to have backed down, but no public statement has been made by nobody, as far as I can gather. I wonder what changed their mind, since I don't believe it was Günter Grass alone.
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Reply #29 - 02.03.2012 at 17:18:17

Quote from JanVanEyck on 02.03.2012 at 16:55:07:

Does anybody know what happened regarding this? Ucl seem to have backed down, but no public statement has been made by nobody, as far as I can gather. I wonder what changed their mind, since I don't believe it was Günter Grass alone.

Their "Strategic plan" goes up to 2014 (http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/home/aboutthewarburginstitute/strategic-plan/ pointing to http://warburg.sas.ac.uk/uploads/media/WI_Strategy_2011_14.pdf ).

I guess it's "wait and see". Not bad. But not really good either.

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Reply #30 - 07.01.2013 at 10:20:41

Quote from hck on 02.03.2012 at 17:18:17:

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I guess it's "wait and see". Not bad. But not really good either.

Apparently now there is a state of "everything remains (at least essentially) as it is" (which IMO is good news): at http://www.miniaturaitaliana.com/blog/?p=30508 you can read (2013-01-05) :
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NEWS: Salvata la biblioteca del Warburg Institute di Londra.

La biblioteca del Warburg Institute di Londra non sarà separata dal Warburg Institute, uno dei più importanti centri di ricerca al mondo sul Rinascimento. Il progetto di ristrutturazione prevedeva di svuotare lo storico edificio di Woburn Square dagli oltre 350.000 volumi e destinarlo ad attività più redditizie. I libri sarebbero confluiti nella biblioteca di Senate House, perdendo in tal modo il caratteristico ordine con cui sono distribuiti sugli scaffali, noto come “la legge del buon vicinato”. Secondo il suo fondatore, Aby Warburg, i libri non vanno infatti organizzati in sequenze alfabetiche o cronologiche, ma in base agli ambiti culturali e tematici. L’annuncio è stato dato dal direttore dell’istituto, Peter Mack.

At http://www.notiziarioitaliano.it/index.php/costume-e-cultura/138808-%C2%ABho-sal vato-gli-studi-sul-rinascimento%C2%BB viz. http://0cn.de/izjk you can read (i.a., 2013-01-03) :
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«Dopo anni di tensioni e di battaglie, posso dire, per il momento, che la biblioteca del Warburg è salva e non sarà separata dall'Istituto. Le trattative con l'Università di Londra sono in corso. Ma continueremo a vigilare per difendere la nostra identità e la nostra autonomia». Peter Mack - direttore del Warburg Institute di Londra, uno dei più importanti centri di ricerca del mondo sul Rinascimento - parla di tregua,

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ha resistito a un progetto di ristrutturazione delle scuole di specializzazione per ridurre i costi di gestione. I vertici dell'Università di Londra avrebbero voluto recuperare lo storico edificio di Woburn Square, che ospita gli oltre trecentocinquantamila volumi della biblioteca, per destinarlo ad attività più redditizie.

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La biblioteca e l'Istituto sono una cosa sola, come è detto con chiarezza nell'accordo che la famiglia Warburg firmò con l'Università di Londra quando nel 1944 decise di cedere il suo straordinario patrimonio librario. E noi ci batteremo per mantenere questo principio a qualsiasi costo».

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dirigere questa biblioteca, come fa oggi la nostra collega Jill Kraye, presuppone una conoscenza dei campi di ricerca per continuare a collocare i libri secondo il disegno originario.

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-> i.e.: the orriginal article is this one: Nuccio Ordine:
«Ho salvato gli studi sul Rinascimento» : Peter Mack dirige l'Istituto Warburg di Londra «Volevano trasferire la biblioteca per fare soldi»
"Corriere della sera" 2013-01-03.

http://www.miniaturaitaliana.com/blog/?p=30508 seen thanks to https://plus.google.com/101279375437817078878/posts/QT6hX8Bde22 .

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