For more than a hundred years the name Munzinger has stood for reliable information. Against freely available sources on the internet, the Munzinger databases stand out for their reliability: their own editors and specialists extend and add to a broad range of information about people, countries, world affairs and more every day. All of it is checked and assessed before it is included.

• country profiles, biographies, anniversaries

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Questions about Munzinger

What can I use this service for?

All the information is editorially checked and fully citable, so it can be used for assignments at school and university. Of course the service is not only for them. Whether you are after full discographies of your favourite rock and pop bands, or want to know who won the last Olympic 100 metres, or exactly how the human body is put together, our reference collection leaves hardly a question open.

Munzinger also offers particular help, and not only to school students and their parents: at the end of every article a properly formatted source reference is generated automatically, which can be printed out with the text or copied[&]pasted into your own writing as a citation.

What information is available?

Country profiles

• Countries (Internationales Handbuch - Länder aktuell): every country on earth - weekly updated background on all the world's states (politics, culture, economy, statistics, nature and so on), plus profiles of international organisations.
• Chronicle (Internationales Handbuch - Zeitgeschehen): current affairs at a glance - from Afghanistan to Cyprus, whether elections, changes of government, natural disasters, company mergers or conflicts between states: a running chronicle of significant news and events from every part of the world since 1986.

Biographies

• People (Internationales Biographisches Archiv - Personen aktuell): over 27,700 biographies from politics, business and culture - detailed biographical accounts of public figures of the present and the recent past, from 1946 onwards.
• Sport (Internationales Sportarchiv - Biographien): more than 10,000 sporting biographies - lives of successful athletes, coaches and officials from all over the world and every branch of sport: medals, titles, records, peak performances, injuries and failures, from 1946 onwards.
• Pop (Pop-Archiv International): over 1,700 artists and bands - stars and newcomers, rockers, jazz players and blues greats, reggae and funk bands, trendsetters and independents. The whole world of rock and pop music in biographical overview.

Dates

• Anniversaries / Nekrolog: what happened when? Jubilees and anniversaries - births and deaths, jubilees and historical events worth remembering – from 776 BC to the present day. A database of more than 45,000 entries, extended with data from the SWR chronicle of events.

What do I need in order to use it?

All you need is a valid library card.

What does it cost me?

Nothing. Thanks to our Friends of the Library, our digital services are free.

Where and how can I use it?

You can use the service on any PC or mobile device at home, at work or out and about – as long as you have internet access: munzinger-login.owbib.de.

What are my login details?

You log in with the details you already have, that is your reader number and your personal password, as for your reader account in our online catalogue.

What to do if you have further questions or problems?

You are always welcome to get in touch. Outside opening hours you can reach us round the clock by email at info@owbib.de. We do our best to answer as quickly as we can, in the evenings and at weekends too.

If you notice a mistake or an inconsistency on our website, please let us know. Thank you!