Switching to the nVidia proprietary driver does not help. The stacktrace is:

$ libreoffice 
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'com::sun::star::uno::RuntimeException'


Fatal exception: Signal 6
Stack:
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libuno_sal.so.3(+0x13568)[0x7f9cb32e2568]
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libuno_sal.so.3(+0x3c316)[0x7f9cb330b316]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(+0x3ef20)[0x7f9cb2f1cf20]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(gsignal+0xc7)[0x7f9cb2f1ce97]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(abort+0x141)[0x7f9cb2f1e801]
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6(+0x8c8fb)[0x7f9caace28fb]
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6(+0x92d3a)[0x7f9caace8d3a]
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6(+0x92d95)[0x7f9caace8d95]
/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6(__cxa_rethrow+0x4d)[0x7f9caace903d]
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libmergedlo.so(+0x10ab728)[0x7f9cb45d4728]
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libmergedlo.so(_ZN10comphelper6detail20ConfigurationWrapper3getERKN3com3sun4star3uno9ReferenceINS5_17XComponentContextEEE+0x47)[0x7f9cb45d47f7]
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libmergedlo.so(_ZN12OpenGLHelper18isVCLOpenGLEnabledEv+0x2e5)[0x7f9cb63008c5]
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libvclplug_genlo.so(_ZN10SalDisplay10BestVisualEP9_XDisplayiR11XVisualInfo+0xfd)[0x7f9c9b39bc2d]
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libvclplug_genlo.so(_ZNK10SalDisplay10initScreenE12SalX11Screen+0x8b)[0x7f9c9b3a113b]
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libvclplug_genlo.so(_ZN7vcl_sal9WMAdaptorC1EP10SalDisplay+0x21d)[0x7f9c9b3a6e4d]
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libvclplug_genlo.so(+0x4024b)[0x7f9c9b3a724b]                                                                                                                                                            
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libvclplug_genlo.so(_ZN7vcl_sal9WMAdaptor15createWMAdaptorEP10SalDisplay+0x21)[0x7f9c9b3a8171]                                                                                                           
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libvclplug_genlo.so(_ZN10SalDisplay4InitEv+0x467)[0x7f9c9b3a2997]                                                                                                                                        
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libvclplug_genlo.so(_ZN13SalX11DisplayC1EP9_XDisplay+0x24)[0x7f9c9b3a2b44]                                                                                                                               
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libvclplug_kde4lo.so(+0x1963e)[0x7f9c9da9263e]                                                                                                                                                           
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libvclplug_kde4lo.so(+0x1e636)[0x7f9c9da97636]                                                                                                                                                           
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libvclplug_genlo.so(_ZN14X11SalInstance12AfterAppInitEv+0x12)[0x7f9c9b3a3282]                                                                                                                            
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libmergedlo.so(_Z7InitVCLv+0x382)[0x7f9cb6213742]                                                                                                                                                        
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libmergedlo.so(+0x2cebd3d)[0x7f9cb6214d3d]
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libmergedlo.so(_Z6SVMainv+0x30)[0x7f9cb6214da0]
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/libmergedlo.so(soffice_main+0x115)[0x7f9cb525a215]
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin(+0x78b)[0x55e07191678b]
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe7)[0x7f9cb2effb97]
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/soffice.bin(+0x7ca)[0x55e0719167ca]

$ glxinfo | grep OpenGL
OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation
OpenGL renderer string: Quadro M1000M/PCIe/SSE2
OpenGL core profile version string: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 390.48
OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 4.60 NVIDIA
OpenGL core profile context flags: (none)
OpenGL core profile profile mask: core profile
OpenGL core profile extensions:
OpenGL version string: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 390.48
OpenGL shading language version string: 4.60 NVIDIA
OpenGL context flags: (none)
OpenGL profile mask: (none)
OpenGL extensions:
OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.2 NVIDIA 390.48
OpenGL ES profile shading language version string: OpenGL ES GLSL ES 3.20
OpenGL ES profile extensions:

If you have any idea what to try, please let me know. Otherwise, just forget it :)

Thanks!