Queer Zine Library

The “Queer Zine Library Berlin” is intended to be used for community events, educational activities, and research purposes. You can find the “QZLB” at Spinnboden, where you can access it during its opening hours.

The Queer ZineFest Berlin collective had the idea to start a mobile zine library in the year 2019. We wanted to enable people access to zines all year long and for free to borrow for events, community get-togethers and for whatever further ideas people might come up with. The library started with zine donations from the collective members, and was stored at the archive of youth cultures, with whom we had different collaborations at the time. During Queer ZineFest Berlin 2022 and 2023 we also approached zinesteres and told them about the library, inviting them to donate zines. And so, our little library grew bigger. Thanks to Giuseppina Lettieri, the library has found its way to the Spinboden archive. Four years after the establishment of the zine-library, the collective has grown apart and decided to stop organising zinefests together, but the library will live on at Spinnboden, organized by the new Queer Zine Library Berlin Collective.

DEUTSCH

Die „Queer Zine Library Berlin“ ist ein Non-Profit-Kollektivprojekt – entstanden aus dem Queer ZineFest Berlin Kollektiv – das sich zur Aufgabe gemacht hat, den über die letzten sechs Jahre gespendeten Bestand zu organisieren, sichtbar und zugänglich zu machen. Die „Queer Zine Library Berlin“ ist in der Idee ein mobiles Konzept. Die mobile Zine-Bibliothek soll sowohl für gemeinschaftliche Veranstaltungen, Lehrveranstaltungen als auch für Recherchezwecke genutzt werden. Ihr könnt auf die Bibliothek während der Öffnungszeiten des Spinnbodens zugreifen.