Drawing from the already completed 2004 interior shots of the Duchess Anna Amalia Library, which was severely damaged by fire shortly afterwards, in the summer of 2006 it was possible to win the participation of the Cologne-based artist Candida Höfer for the creation of an additional series of interior shots, this time focused on "classical" Weimar and including images of the Goethe National Museum, Weimar City Castle, Wittumspalais, and Belvedere Palace among others structures.

The impressive results of Höfer's intensive, on-location studies produced around 50 large-format images, and a part of this striking series can be seen on the upper floor of the Neues Museum Weimar.

This year the Allianz Kulturstiftung is funding the "8th Internationalen Anna Amalia Guitar Competition for Children and Young People" held in Weimar from April 10 to 15, 2007 with around 70 participants from 16 countries, as well as the European school seminar "Weimar - Cultural Remembrance in the Conflict-Ridden Area of European Interpretation" in July of 2007. Furthermore, the Allianz Kulturstiftung wishes to underline its commitment to book and library culture with two more projects: the essay competition "My Favourite Library" together with the young people's editors of the SZ/jetzt.de in 2005, and the "Anna Amalia Book Drive," a special project in which public libraries throughout Germany are given incentive to procure more European literature for young people. Since 2005, eighteen schools and learning facilities in Germany have profited from this initiative.

This wealth of projects should also guarantee that the Duchess Anna Amalia Library fulfils its function as a tangible monument, a lively venue, and a research library which, well into the future, places special emphasis on German literature from the Enlightenment up to the late Romanticist Period.