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
The Century of Dance
A Reader
Johannes Odenthal on behalf of the Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Akademie der Künste , Berlin / Alexander-Verlag, Berlin 2019
German/English, 336 pp., 150 ill.
ISBN ISBN 978-3-89581-510-2
€ 19,90
The 20th century is the century of dance. Under this pointed thesis, awakenings, emancipation movements and aesthetic transformations of modern and contemporary dance are brought together in 100 photographs and statements by dancers, from Isadora Duncan to Mary Wigman, Merce Cunningham and Pina Bausch to Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Xavier Le Roy, among others. With accompanying essays by Gabriele Brandstetter, Franz-Anton Cramer, Johannes Odenthal and Madeline Ritter.
Jean Barraqué
Sonate pour piano
Bd. 1: Partitur
Bd. 2: Kommentar
Heribert Henrich (ed.)
Akademie der Künste, Berlin / Bärenreiter, Kassel 2019
German/English,
2 vol.: 53 and 132 pp., 2 facsimiles
ISMN 979-0-006-56760-7
€ 59
Sonate pour piano (1950–1952) by Jean Barraqué (1928–1973) enjoys a legendary reputation as probably the earliest attempt to reconcile the idiom of integral serialism with a monumental form. The work is now presented in a new critical edition, for which all handwritten and printed sources were subjected to an in-depth analysis and evaluation for the very first time.
Archiv-Blätter 25
Dichter und Kritiker.
Thomas Mann – Bernhard Diebold
Dirk Heißerer on behalf of the Akademie der Künste (ed.)
Akademie der Künste, Berlin 2019
German, 216 pp., 117 ill.
ISBN 978-3-88331-234-7
Best.-Nr. 4038
€ 18
Zwischen 1917 und 1940 wechselte Thomas Mann ausführliche Briefe mit Bernhard Diebold, einem der entscheidenden Literatur- und Theaterkritiker der Weimarer Republik. Dirk Heißerer hat die bislang unbekannte Korrespondenz aus dem Archiv ediert und kommentiert. Der Band bietet eine faszinierende Rekonstruktion, angereichert durch Bernhard Diebolds Besprechungen – vom Zauberberg bis zu den Josephs-Romanen.
Journal der Künste 10
Published three times a year (German/English)
available free of charge
ISSN (Print EN) 2627-2490
ISSN (Online EN) 2627-5198
To the online edition: https://issuu.com/journalderkuenste
Journal der Künste 10 with the following contributions: The Journal der Künste 10 with the following key topics: Between Art and Politics – The Building at Pariser Platz, on the Actuality of Dance Heritage – From Mary Wigman to Johann Kresnik, the presentation of this year's fellows of the JUNGE AKADEMIE, and much more.
To order the print edition: info@adk.de
Karl Fruchtmann
Ein jüdischer Erzähler
Torsten Musial, Nicky Rittmeyer (eds.)Series "Fernsehen. Geschichte. Ästhetik" [Television. History. Esthetics], Vol. 1, Akademie der Künste, Deutsche Kinemathek – Museum für Film und Fernsehen (eds.)
edition text + kritik, Munich 2019
German, 240 pp., 43 ill.
ISBN 978-3-86916-751-0
Best.-Nr. 6042
€ 29
Karl Fruchtmann's television movies pursue fundamental issues of human oppression, ostracism and violence committed against fellow human beings. They are profoundly influenced by Fruchtmann's experience in National Socialist concentration camps, and are testaments to his lifelong fight not to let the Shoah be forgotten.