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, librarian
+46 (0)8-519 554 45 or
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Kvarnholmsvägen 56
Gäddviken, Nacka
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The museum's library is now included in Musik- och teaterbiblioteket at Torsgatan 19. This means that our information desk at Gäddviken is closed. All loans are handled by the main desk at Torsgatan ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ). If you have any questions regarding the theatre litterature please contact librarian Magnus Blomkvist. The Theatre Library holds one of Europe's largest collections of literature on theatre history. The library contains books from 1499 to present day. The holdings also cover subjects such as art history and musicology, cultural history, architecture, set design and stage machinery.
New books from 1996 onwards are registered in the national catalogue LIBRIS |
Recent acquisition
The collected works by August von Kotzebue
The library has recently acquired August von Kotzebue's
sämmtliche dramatische Werke (43 of the originally 44 volumes)
published in Leipzig 1827-1829.
August von Kotzebue (1761-1819) is with his 211 plays probably one of the wolds most productive playwrights. He also led a varied and interesting life. After dropping out of his legal studies he took up a position as secretary to General von Böwe in St. Petersburg, where he also became active in the general's German-speaking theatre. In 1785 he recieved a knighthood and was appointed governor of Estonia, where he started his own theatre. After spending some time at the court theatre i Vienna he made his way back to Russia where he was arrested and sent to Siberia. However, after seeing one of Kotzebue's plays the Russian tsar Paul granted him pardon. After the assasination of the tsar Kotzebue tried his luck in Paris, but failed to impress Napoleon. Kotzebue was later employed by the Russian foreign office and wrote reports from Germany to Russia (he seems to have acted as a spy) while producing one play after the other. Kotzebue's end was fittingly dramatic: in 1819 he was stabbed to death by a radical student in his home in Mannheim.