To mark the publication by Hatje Cantz of a major new book entitled Otti Berger. Weaving for Modernist Architecture, Berlin-based artist Judith Raum, the book’s contributing editor, will talk about this challenging yet rewarding project.
Film screening at Maggs Bros, London, of ‘Across the Land and the Water: The Two Journeys of the Family Basch’, an intensely moving and beautifully crafted film by Second Generation artist Barbara Loftus.
Professor Esther Leslie and Dr Sam Dolbear, co-authors of the 2023 book Dissonant Waves: Ernst Schoen and Experimental Sound in the Twentieth Century, will first talk about the life of Ernst Schoen (1894-1960)—poet, composer, radio programmer, theorist, and best friend of Walter Benjamin from childhood—as he moves between Frankfurt, Berlin, Paris, and London.
n the just-published English translation of his book, Professor Dr. Christoph Ribbat of the University of Paderborn, Germany, traces the life of a once well-known but now nearly forgotten 20th century novelist from an Isle of Man internment camp to postwar Cornwall, New York, and California, and then to a green hill in Sussex.
