Special Collections
The Academy Library's special collections include:
- 500 volumes from the original holdings of the Prussian Akademie der Künste
- Exhibition catalogues
- Comprehensive holdings of valuable and rare journals (primary focus: Berlin in the 1920s and exile)
- Library and records of the Institut für deutsche Literaturgeschichte in Leipzig
- Die Möwe Theatre Studies Library of the GDR's Gewerkschaft Kunst with approx. 60,000 volumes
- The library of the Verband Bildender Künstler der DDR
- The reference library with approx. 60,000 volumes belonging to the "Hauptverwaltung Verlage und Buchhandel" (Head Office of Publishing and the Book Trade) in East Germany's Ministry of Culture
- Approx. 6,000 articles (copies and originals) from literary studies journals and rare newspapers
- Offprints
The library in the Bertolt Brecht Archive and the library in the Walter Benjamin Archive are two separate research libraries.