As part of the 2018-2019 initiative "Year of German-American Friendship (Deutschlandjahr)," encompassed by the motto #WunderbarTogether, the Goethe-Institut New York invites you to a conversation between author
Theresia Enzensberger and writer
Elvia Wilk about Enzensbeger's first novel,
Blueprint. This engagement is part of the BOOKS FIRST program, which seeks to bring awareness of German-language literature to the English-speaking world. It also is part of our celebration of the 100-year birthday of Bauhaus.
Blueprint (
Blaupause) is about the young and inquisitive Luise Schilling, who arrives at Weimar's Bauhaus University at the beginning of the turbulent twenties. She takes classes with professors such as Gropius and Kandinsky and throws herself into the dreams and ideas of her epoch. From technology to art, communism to the avant-garde, populism to the youth movement, Luise encounters the social utopias that still shape us to the present day. She has ambitions of achieving a great deal in life - but little of it has to do with paying homage to great men.
Theresia Enzensberger:
Blaupause, Carl Hanser Verlag, 2017 -
Blueprint, Dialogue Books, 2019. Translated by Lucy Renner Jones.
Theresia Enzensberger was born in 1986 in Munich and now lives in Berlin. She studied film at Bard College in New York and works as a freelance journalist for publications including the
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung,
Zeit Online,
Krautreporter and
Monopol. In 2014 she founded the award-winning
BLOCK magazine.
Elvia Wilk is a writer and editor living in New York. She contributes to publications like
Frieze,
Mousse,
Metropolis,
Artforum, and
Zeit Online. From 2012 to 2016 she was a founding editor at
uncube magazine and from 2016 to 2018 she was the publications editor for
transmediale as well as a contributing editor at
Rhizome. She is currently a contributing editor at
e-flux journal.
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