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26/09/2025

Stephan Krass »Die Spur der Buchstaben«

»Die Buchstaben sind wie Ameisen und haben ihren eigenen geheimen Staat.« Elias Canetti

Wer täglich mit Sprache und Text arbeitet, weiß, dass Canetti recht hatte. Buchstaben sind nicht nur vielseitig einsetzbare Schriftzeichen, die unter dem Dach des Alphabets Bedeutung entfalten. Sie sind auch kleine, eigenwillige Wesen, die uns häufig durch die Finger schlüpfen und Schabernack treiben.

Stephan Krass stellt in seinem ebenso klugen wie unterhaltsamen Buch die Buchstaben nun aufs wohlverdiente Podest und weckt Entdeckerfreude: Wussten Sie eigentlich, welche Strafe die unterlegenen Poeten bei den regelmäßigen Dichterwettkämpfen am Hofe des Tyrannenkaisers Caligula erwartete? Oder welcher deutsche Schriftsteller für den Suppenhersteller Maggi Werbeslogans dichtete? Die Antworten finden sich im Buch.

»Die Spur der Buchstaben« ist jedoch nicht allein eine Spielanleitung. In 26 Kapiteln über Alphabet, Blaupause, Code und vieles mehr eröffnet sich eine beeindruckende poetologische und schrifthistorische Tiefe. Nach der Lektüre wird klar: Sprache und Schrift bilden unsere Realität nicht nur ab, sie prägen und formen sie.

Ein hoch auf die Sprache!

Stephan Krass’ »Die Spur der Buchstaben« ist im Buchhandel sowie online hier https://tinyurl.com/2m9ywcwy erhältlich.

25/09/2025

“I think that each medium offers its own comfort and its own discomfort. But overall the work is rarely comfortable.”

For more than forty years, Roni Horn, who was born on this day in 1955, has been developing work of concentrated visual power and intellectual rigor, often exploring issues of gender, identity, androgyny, and the complex relationship between object and subject. Her attention to the specific qualities of certain materials spans all mediums, from the textured pigment drawings, to the use of solid gold or cast glass, and rubber. Nature and humankind, the weather, literature and poetry are central to her art.

We are happy and proud to have published more than thirty books with this exceptional artist. Happy Birthday, Roni!

Images in order of appearance:

a.k.a., 2008–09
Two Pink Tons, 2008
Left: Key and Cue, No. 419, 1994/2003
WE GROW ACCUSTOMED TO THE DARK–
Right: Key and Cue, No. 214, 1994/2006
I TASTE A LIQUOR NEVER BREWED

All images from “The Detour of Identity” by Roni Horn

24/09/2025

“Sternfeld walks the line, glides in airy pastoral above New York, trailing memories of other confusions of countryside and metropolis. From William Wordsworth and Charles Baudelaire through Walter Benjamin and the Surrealists to the Situationist dérive, a determined post-Romantic tradition trudges city streets and refashions the urban as rural.” Brian Dillon, Frieze

In 2000, Joel Sternfeld embarked on a project to photograph the disused New York High Line, a railway track built in the mid-twentieth century to transport manufactured goods while avoiding street-level traffic.

In one of his last acts as mayor of New York City, Rudy Giuliani signed an order permitting the demolition of the High Line, that beloved elevated railroad ruin which snaked wound its way down Manhattan’s West Side. Those who had managed to climb up onto the High Line cherished its unique atmosphere: wildflowers pushing through disused tracks, migratory birds tracing their seasonal path north in spring and south again in fall, a rural presence magically flowing through the city like an unbidden river.

For more than a year, Joel Sternfeld had already been photographing this hidden jewel in every season, allowing New Yorkers to see what was otherwise inaccessible. In 2001, Sternfeld, together with Gerhard Steidl, created “Walking the High Line”, which was published just seven weeks later. At the time, the book offered a vision of what would become the widely celebrated park that today welcomes over two million visitors a year.

In August 2023, a new edition was released, featuring nine additional photos, a larger format and an updated timeline. This is the book that made walking the High Line possible.

🔗 For more information and to order: https://tinyurl.com/c7e2a7pb
🌍 Free shipping worldwide

First image from “Walking the High Line. Revised Edition” by Joel Sternfeld

22/09/2025

Liz Nugents Psychothriller sind ganz große Literatur und so dermaßen spannend, dass man sie nicht aus der Hand legen kann. Und nach der Lektüre machen sie sich extrem gut im Bücherregal (Cover frontal bitte 😉).

In »Kleine Grausamkeiten« begegnen wir drei Brüdern auf einer Beerdigung, einer von ihnen liegt im Sarg, betrauert von seinen Geschwistern. Aber welcher? Und warum? »Bis zum Schluss spielt Liz Nugent mit den Erwartungen der Leser, Patricia Highsmith lässt grüßen.« —MDR

»Seltsame Sally Diamond« ist ein Psychothriller vom Feinsten, ein Buch das unter die Haut geht, düster, hochspannend und ergreifend. Vor allem aber mit einer Hauptfigur, die so entwaffnend ehrlich, liebenswert und einzigartig ist, dass man sie nicht vergisst.

Jetzt als Steidl Pocket im Buchhandel und hier 👉 https://tinyurl.com/y59a25jw

18/09/2025

“Gerhard Steidl and Robert Frank — Photobooks as Democratic Art Objects”
Taiwan International Photography Festival
9 September – 6 October 2025

If you’re in Taipei, don’t miss this exhibition at the Taiwan International Photography Festival, on view through 6 October, celebrating one of the most influential partnerships in contemporary photography.

When Robert Frank’s “The Americans” reshaped documentary photography, it was Gerhard Steil who gave that vision lasting from the printed page. Together, they showed how photobooks can carry ideas across boarders, preserve raw emotion, and make art accessible to all.

The exhibition highlights their collaborative relationship, bringing Frank’s radical vision of photography and Steidl’s role in giving it tangible form to the forefront.
It stands as both a tribute to Robert Frank’s enduring legacy and to photography’s past, present, and future through print.

16/09/2025

William Kentridge’s “Muizenberg” is the fourth in a series of Steidl publications which form part of a wider William Kentridge catalogue raisonné of prints and posters, authored and researched by Warren Siebrits since 2020. Much like “Domestic Scenes” (2021) and Carlton Center Games Arcade (2025), this book takes a focused look at another small but highly significant series of prints documented for the first time in Kentridge’s “Catalogue Raisonné Volume 1. Prints and Posters 1974 – 1990” (2022).

In the summer of 1976, just months after the Soweto Uprising in Johannesburg, Kentridge created images of the well-to-do of South Africa’s Jewish community enjoying the summer sun on the “whites-only” Muizenberg beach in Cape Town. These figures, basking in the sun, appear as proverbial frogs in the pot: seemingly unaware of the brutal realities of the apartheid system.

The book includes all twelve plates in the Muizenberg series as well as a revelatory sketchbook from Kentridge’s archive, documenting his preparatory drawings for the prints. Each final plate is accompanied by the artists’ own commentary, sharing his working methods as well as personal memories of the prints’ subject and creation. Also included is an interview between Kentridge and longtime friend Timothy James, exploring the making of these prints which shaped many later works.

“Muizenberg” features five cover variations, each with a different tipped-in image from the series.

👉 https://tinyurl.com/yfj3263y

14/09/2025

Was für eine Woche für Çiğdem Akyol! Am Dienstag wurde die Hotlist 2025 mit den 10 Büchern des Jahres aus unabhängigen Verlagen bekanntgegeben. Mit dabei: Çiğdems Roman »Geliebte Mutter – Canım Annem«. Am Donnerstag dann die Vergabe des Literaturpreises Ruhr des Literaturbüro Ruhr e.V. , und dieser ging an: Çiğdem Akyol für ihr großartiges Debüt! Wir können es wirklich nur jeder Leserin und jedem Leser ans Herz legen. Nicht nur, weil es eine wirklich enorme »emotionale Kraft« hat, wie Frank Goosen in seiner Begründung für den Literaturpreis hervorhob, sondern weil es letztlich auch zutiefst positiv ist: »Es ist ein Buch, das sehr viel Mut macht, weil es eben auch zeigt, dass man Strukturen aufbrechen kann, dass es Chancen gibt, sich zu entwickeln.« (Jurymitglied Patrick Musial)
Liebe Çiğdem, wir gratulieren dir ganz herzlich und freuen uns wie verrückt!

Erstes Foto: © Heiko Fischer
Drittes Foto: © Anna-Lisa Konrad

12/09/2025

"WELTRAUM" by Timm Rautert traces the unexpected history of a very particular building in Rome. What today houses the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the UN’s largest agency, was originally planned as the Ministry for Italian Africa, a prestige project of Benito Mussolini’s government. Construction began in 1938 yet ceased when Italy entered World War II in 1940, and only continued when the FAO moved in in the early 1950s. A fascist stronghold was now transformed into its very opposite: a collective institution for many of the world’s diverse nations.
Again and again, Timm Rautert was drawn to the irony of this enormous building, and specifically to its many meeting rooms in which different countries have strangely recreated their native identities. In this book, Rautert juxtaposes photographs of these interiors, eerily empty of people, with portraits of members of the Guardia di Finanza, Italy’s militarized finance and customs police, in full regalia. This conceptual interplay shows the world less as it is and more like model-like stagings, a fictionalization of the factual. 👉 https://tinyurl.com/47awn6r7

First image: The Malaysia Room

10/09/2025

William Kentridge is one of the world’s most engaging contemporary artists, renowned for exploring the essence of humanity through both historical and everyday themes. This book invites readers to “listen to the echo”—to engage with the resonance of Kentridge’s multidisciplinary practice. Spanning more than four decades, it presents works ranging from his early printmaking and drawings to recent installations confronting apartheid, colonialism, social upheaval, and collective memory and captures the breadth and depth of Kentridge’s practice—at once critical, poetic, personal, and always profoundly collaborative. English and German edition available. Co-published with Museum Folkwang, Essen, and the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden. For more information and to order 👉https://tinyurl.com/4dwxdhk5

The exhibition “Listen to the Echo” is on view at Museum Folkwang, Essen trough 18 January 2026, and at the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden through 15 February 2026.

08/09/2025

Diese Woche steht ganz im Zeichen von Annika Büsing und Çiğdem Akyol, denn ihre großartigen Bücher »Wir kommen zurecht« und »Geliebte Mutter – Canım Annem« sind beide für den Literaturpreis Ruhr nominiert, der am Mittwoch vergeben wird:

»Wieder ist Annika Büsing ein herausragender Coming-of-Age-Roman gelungen; diesmal gewährt sie Einblicke in eine verschlossene Teenagerseele. Ein leises Buch, das noch lange nachhallt.«

»Furchtlos und sprachlich virtuos erzählt Çiğdem Akyol von einer Familie zwischen Istanbul und Herne in Almanya, von enttäuschten Hoffnungen, Gewalt – und der großen Sehnsucht nach Freiheit.«

Wer diese Lese-Highlights bislang verpasst hat, jetzt unbedingt nachholen! Und Daumen drücken nicht vergessen … Mehr zu den Büchern in eurer Lieblingsbuchhandlung und hier: https://tinyurl.com/y6jcztrt

05/09/2025

“Most of my pictures are compassionate, gentle and personal. They tend to let the viewer see for himself. They tend not to preach. And they tend not to pose as art.“

Bruce Davidson—born on this day in 1933—began photographing at the age of ten. He studied at the Rochester Institute of Technology and Yale University before being drafted into the army. After leaving military service in 1957, he freelanced for Life and in 1958 became a member of Magnum Photos. For more than six decades, Davidson has specialized in photographing people at society’s fringes. He documents the lives of his subjects with sensitivity and sympathy. His photographs express his own desire to observe, understand, and reveal the complexity of people and their communities. He transforms intimately observed details and events into stories about individuals' lives that reflect concerns and emotions common to all. Happy Birthday, dear Bruce!

Image from “Subway” by Bruce Davidson

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