The Story of the Little Yellow Booklet

Exhibition Opening "Reclam's Universal Library" on June 25 at the University Library of Freie Universität. No 161/2018 from Jun 22, 2018 The University Library of Freie Universität is dedicating an exhibition to the most famous and oldest book series in Germany - with its memorable yellow cover - "Reclam's Universal Library in Changing Times" will open June 25. The continuously expanded series, which is familiar to many generations of secondary school students in Germany, has been published for more than 150 years. The exhibition traces the history of the Universal-Bibliothek from its beginnings in the 19th century to the present. It documents the change in the external appearance of the Reclam booklets, providing an insight into their literary diversity and into German publishing history and cultural history. The exhibition also shows lesser known variations of the Universal-Bibliothek and its subseries, as well as catalogs, advertising materials, hardcover editions, and a few special features: Reclam's portable "field library," so-called camouflage texts (anti-war texts, hidden in Reclam bindings), or "vending machine books" and a weekend library in a tropic-proof metal box. In 1867 Goethe's Faust.