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Simple and digital: launch of the ‘Virtual Reading Room’

From now on, you can easily explore the holdings of the ETH Zurich University Archives, the Thomas Mann Archives and the Max Frisch Archives online. The ‘Virtual Reading Rooms’ simplify archive research and offer expanded access options.
Additional tours for the 150th birthday of Thomas Mann

To mark the 150th anniversary of Thomas Mann's birth, the Thomas Mann Archive is offering additional tours of the ETH main building. Register to find out more about the writer in his many roles – now also at weekends.
New anniversary platform to mark 150 years of Thomas Mann

To mark the 150th anniversary of Thomas Mann's birthday on 6 June 2025, the Thomas Mann International network, which includes the Thomas Mann Archive of the ETH Library, is launching an anniversary platform.
New film: ‘Internal portraits’ in the past and present - X-ray technology on the “Magic Mountain” and ETH Zurich

“The Magic Mountain” is in more ways than one a testimony to the beginnings of X-ray diagnostics. What this means and how today’s research at ETH Zurich is advancing diagnostic technologies is the subject of a film by the Thomas Mann Archive.
Ist der ‘Zauberberg’ zu retten? – Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht speaks at ETH Zürich

The registry is open for the eighth Thomas Mann Lecture: Join us in celebrating the 100th anniversary of Thomas Mann’s ‘Der Zauberberg’ with a keynote speech by Professor Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht.