Erdmut Wizisla

Erdmut Wizisla

Erdmut Wizisla, born in 1958, is director of the Bertolt Brecht Archives as well as director of the Walter Benjamin Archives at the Akademie der Künste (Academy of Arts) Berlin.

Erdmut Wizisla, born in 1958, is director of the Bertolt Brecht Archives as well as director of the Walter Benjamin Archives at the Akademie der Künste (Academy of Arts) Berlin.


PUBLICATIONS

Benjamin and Brecht - Thinking in Extremes
Year of Publication: 2017
Erdmut WizislaYear of Publication: 2017

On the occasion of an exhibition at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin the present volume collects essays and artistic commentaries (drawings, prints, photographs, montages), which cast bright light onto an extraordinary constellation.

With texts from Minou Arjomand, Zoe Beloff, Barbara Hahn, Alexander Kluge, Bernd-Peter Lange, Thomas Martin, Ursula Marx, Frank M. Raddatz, Jan...

»i’m learning: to wash glasses + cups«
Year of Publication: 2012
Bertolt Brecht, Helene WeigelYear of Publication: 2012
»Dear Helli,
i’m learning: to wash glasses + cups, sweep the floor, take out the rubbish, make scram-bled eggs and soups. i’m teaching myself. i feel very close to you when i’m washing glasses, which you have done for so long, among other things.«


The Brecht Archive was recently able to acquire the »Victor N. Cohen Brecht...
Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht
Year of Publication: 2004
Erdmut WizislaYear of Publication: 2004
The friendship between Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht is one of the most aesthetically and politically momentous of the 20th century. Hannah Arendt called the friendship »unique«...
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Previously published in the respective language / territory; rights available again: Spanish world rights (Editorial Paidos), Brazilian Portuguese rights (EDUSP), France (Klincksieck), Korea (Munhakdongne)