Publications
The Akademie der Künste publishes its own publications in connection with exhibitions and special events, as well as new acquisitions in the archives. These include exhibition catalogues, symposia documentation, monographs on individual artists, as well as publications on thematic main focuses and on selected archival collections.
Our publications can be ordered by phone or email, and you can visit our bookstore on Hanseatenweg in Berlin, which has access to all of the Akademie der Künste’s available books and antiquarian rarities.
Sinn und Form
Every two months, the Akademie der Künste also issues the “Sinn und Form” (Purpose and Form) journal.
Founded in 1949 by Johannes R. Becher and Paul Wiegler, the cultural magazine Sinn und Form (Purpose and Form), published by the Akademie der Künste, is one of the most influential of its kind in Germany. Originally addressed to a literary audience in particular, the journal today is also a venue for philosophical, aesthetic, and social issues, for the meeting of art and science, poetry and anthropology, and is thus a key publication for many Academy members. The ambitious programme has an international focus and comprises selected letters and conversations, essays, poems, and narratives. Findings from the extensive Academy Archive continue to be presented.
Current Publications
Carsten Krohn
Hans Scharoun. Buildings and Projects
Birkhäuser in cooperation with the Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Basel, 2018
208 pp., c. 350 ill.
English edition 978-3-0356-0691-1
€ 59,95
The book is the first to document in text and image all the well-known buildings designed by Hans Scharoun, including his early work in East Prussia. Photographs specially taken by Carsten Krohn, historical photographs and plans from the Hans-Scharoun-Archiv at the Akademie provide a new perspective on this expressive, organic architecture.
Martin Rupprecht
BühnenBilder
Werner Heegewaldt and Peter W. Marx on behalf of the Akademie der Künste, Berlin, and the Theaterwissenschaftliche Sammlung of the Universität zu Köln (eds.)
Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2018
240 pp., over 400 ill.
ISBN 978-3-95749-139-8
Best.-Nr. 5049
€ 25
An extensively illustrated book is published about the set and costume designer Martin Rupprecht's life's work for the stage, which also includes his freelance artwork for the first time. Essays by scholars and Rupprecht's companions reflect his oeuvre and its developments.
Texts by Martin Rupprecht, Julia Burde, Stephan Dörschel, Michael Hampe, Volker Hassemer, Werner Heegewaldt, Nele Hertling, Gerald Köhler, Peter W. Marx, Sabine Sterken, Christoph Tannert, Matthias Zwarg.
Underground + Improvisation
Alternative Music and Art after 1968.
Akademie der Künste, Berlin 2018
German/English
132 pp., 53 ill.
ISBN 978-3-88331-226-2
Best.-Nr. 7013
€ 14
The Reader for this season's main topic at the Akademie compiles text essays by curators and protagonists, who introduce the artistic developments of the West Berlin music label FMP and its unique concert events as a dynamic art and music scene in Eastern Europe after 1968, and as an expression of a multifaceted counterculture in Poland, the GDR, Czechoslovakia, the Soviet Union and Hungary.
Journal der Künste 5
Published four times a year(German/English),
available free of charge
ISSN (Print) 2510-5221
ISSN (Online) 2512-9082
To the Online-edition: https://issuu.com/journalderkuenste
To the online edition: https://issuu.com/journalderkuenste
Journal der Künste 5 will be available in German and English now, providing an overview of the focus of the future programme and information about new acquisitions and finds from the Akademie's archives. With contributions on the Underground and Improvisation and Abfallprodukte der Liebe projects or the Wo kommen wir hin interdisciplinary research project, as well as the lecture My Inner Europe (Cette Europe qui est en moi) by Alain Mabanckou, and the lecture on the Valeska Gert Visiting Professorship by Lia Rodrigues, and much more.
To order the print edition: info@adk.de
Von Berlin nach Los Angeles. Die Musikwissenschaftlerin Anneliese Landau
Daniela Reinhold on behalf of the Akademie der Künste, Berlin (ed.)
Akademie der Künste / Hentrich & Hentrich, Berlin, 2017
German, 340 pp., 15 ill.
ISBN 978-3-95565-226-5
Best.-Nr. 3044
€ 27,90
As a young musicologist, Anneliese Landau (1903–1991) was at the beginning of a promising career. In 1933, she was left with only the activities for the Jewish cultural association. In 1940, she emigrated to the United States and soon found a new home in Los Angeles, where she worked as the Music Director of the Jewish Center Association. Her autobiography, together with extracts from letters from her parents who remained in Berlin as well as Landau’s correspondence with composers, have now been published for the first time.