Translated by Katherine Vanovitch (German to English).
Provisional Survey
Marianne Zückler, Berlin/Germany — Literature, Solitude fellow 2013–2015
Marianne Zückler is a German writer and currently fellow at the Akademie. Influenced by Théâtre du Soleil and Ariane Mnouchkine, she worked with open theater groups for many years and writes audio dramas and librettos. Her debut novel Der Blanke Hans und seine Frauen was published in 2015 by Husum Verlag. Her main focus is the exploration of the interlacing between spaces of memory and experience as well as patterns of transgenerational trauma.
Schlossghost #1
In its new collective publication, Schlossghost #1, Akademie Schloss Solitude examines the ways in which politics meet artistic and aesthetic practices in contemporary societies. For this the Solitude-fellows who had residencies in 2014, 2015 and early 2016 were invited to reflect on following questions: »Would you say that your practice is political? If so, how would you describe its political dimension?« Schlossghost #1 takes over the role of the traditional yearbooks by the Akademie. Every second year since 1990 they were summarizing all the facets of the work done in Solitude and maintained as a final truth Stéphane Mallarmé’s affirmation that »the ultimate state of the world is a book«. This new publication has lost its materiality and exists only as a virtual yearbook, or one could say as the ghost of a book. WWW.SCHLOSS-GHOST.COM