Robert Walser Center

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The Robert Walser Center is a publicly accessible research and communication center on Robert Walser and Carl Seelig and was opened in Bern in 2009 . It collects, indexes and mediates their works and bequests. The center, which is available to both specialists and laypeople, maintains an archive , a library , two rooms with free workplaces and a temporary exhibition. It publishes works and specialist literature, organizes conferences, workshops, events and exhibitions. Another focus is the promotion of translations. There is cooperation with universities, technical colleges, schools, theaters, museums, archives, editions and literature houses as well as with translators.

history

In 1966, the lawyer Elio Fröhlich founded the Carl Seelig Foundation in Zurich, which in 1973 set up the Robert Walser Archive in order to preserve and expand Walser's estate and make it accessible to increasingly interested research. In 2004 the foundation was renamed the Robert Walser Foundation Zurich. The directors of the Robert Walser Archive between 1973 and today were and are in this order: Katharina Kerr, Guido Stefani, Werner Morlang , Bernhard Echte , Margit Gigerl, Lucas Marco Gisi and Lukas Gloor.

In 2009 a profound restructuring followed, combined with the move to Bern, the renaming of the institution to Robert Walser Foundation Bern and the opening of the Robert Walser Center under the founding director Reto Sorg. Since then, the Robert Walser Archive has been a central part of the Robert Walser Center.

The Robert Walser Center has also been working with a group of volunteers since 2009, who support the employees in their scientific work and help ensure that the center can offer general opening times.

Robert Walser Archive

The focus of the archive is the collection on Robert Walser, which includes manuscripts, correspondence, biographical material and a constantly expanding collection for the reception of the work, which are inventoried, secured and researched. The valuable manuscripts (including the so-called micrograms) have been kept in the Swiss Literary Archives of the Swiss National Library in Bern since 2009 , but they are still the property of the Foundation. The archive also includes part of the estates of the siblings of Robert Walser and Carl Seelig, as well as the Walser researchers Anne Gabrisch, Jochen Greven and Werner Morlang. The Robert Walser Center and the Robert Walser Archive have regularly produced editions and publications on Robert Walser since the 1980s.

Walser editions

The new Bern edition of Robert Walser's works and letters has been published by Suhrkamp Verlag since 2018 :

  • Walser, Robert: Works. Bern edition. Ed. V. Lucas Marco Gisi, Reto Sorg, Peter Stocker u. Peter Utz i. A. from the Robert Walser Foundation, Bern. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin since 2018, ISBN 978-3-518-42845-0 .
    • Letters 1897–1920. Ed. V. Peter Stocker and Bernhard Echte. With the collaboration of Peter Utz u. Thomas Binder. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2018 (BA; 1).
    • Letters 1921–1956. Ed. V. Peter Stocker and Bernhard Echte. With the collaboration of Peter Utz u. Thomas Binder. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2018 (BA; 2).
    • Letters. Epilogue and Appendix. Ed. V. Peter Stocker and Bernhard Echte. With the collaboration of Peter Utz u. Thomas Binder. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2018 (BA; 3).

In 2000 the 6th and last volume of the micrograms deciphered over 15 years was published:

  • Walser, Robert: From the pencil field. Ed. V. Bernhard Echte u. Werner Morlang i. A. of the Robert Walser Archive of the Carl Seelig Foundation, Zurich. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1985-2000.
    • From the pencil field. Micrograms from 1924–1925. Prose. Ed. V. Bernhard Echte u. Werner Morlang. Suhrkamp, ​​1985 (AdB; 1), ISBN 3-518-03234-8 .
    • From the pencil field. Micrograms from 1924–1925. Poems and dramatic scenes. Ed. V. Bernhard Echte u. Werner Morlang. Suhrkamp, ​​1985 (AdB; 2), ISBN 3-518-03234-8 .
    • From the pencil field. 'Robber' novel, 'Felix' scenes. Ed. V. Bernhard Echte u. Werner Morlang. Suhrkamp, ​​1986 (AdB; 3), ISBN 3-518-03085-X .
    • From the pencil field. Micrograms from 1926–1927. Ed. V. Bernhard Echte u. Werner Morlang. Suhrkamp, ​​1990 (AdB; 4), ISBN 3-518-40224-2 .
    • From the pencil field. Micrograms from 1925-1933. Prose. Edited by Bernhard Echte. Decipherment in collaboration with Werner Morlang. Suhrkamp, ​​2000 (AdB; 5), ISBN 3-518-40851-8 .
    • From the pencil field. Micrograms from 1925-1933. Poems and Dramatic Scenes. Ed. V. Bernhard Echte. Decipherment in collaboration with Werner Morlang. Suhrkamp, ​​2000 (AdB; 6), ISBN 3-518-40851-8 .

Manuals

  • Robert Walser manual. Life - work - effect. Ed. V. Lucas Marco Gisi. JB Metzler, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-476-02418-3 .

Monographs

  • Bernhard Echte : Robert Walser. His life in pictures and texts. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 2008.

Writings of the Robert Walser Center

  • Voluntarily at the Robert Walser Center. Commitment and experience in everyday life in a cultural institution. Ed. V. Arthur Mohr and Reto Sorg. Bern 2018 ( publications of the Robert Walser Center; 4). ISBN 978-3-9523586-3-4 .
  • Robert Frank : Distant Closeness. Homage for / A Tribute to Robert Walser. 21 Photographs / 21 Photographs. Bern 2012 ( publications of the Robert Walser Center; 3). ISBN 978-3-9523586-2-7 .
  • Roland Stark: Language on the gold scales. Robert Walser as a contributor to Richard Dehmel's illustrated children's book «Der Buntscheck». With 21 illustrations. Bern 2012 ( publications by the Robert Walser Center; 2). ISBN 978-3-9523586-1-0 .
  • 'Every book that has been printed is a grave for the poet, isn't it?' Robert Walser's books during his lifetime. Ed. V. Reto Sorg u. Lucas Marco Gisi. Bern 2009 ( publications of the Robert Walser Center; 1). ISBN 978-3-9523586-0-3 .

Anthologies

  • Walser, Robert: The little Berliner. Big city stories. Ed. V. Pino Dietiker u. Reto Sorg. Insel Verlag, Berlin 2018 (Insel taschenbuch; 4622).
  • Walser, Robert: «The best I can say about music». Ed. V. Roman Brotbeck u. Reto Sorg. Insel Verlag, Berlin 2015 (Insel Taschenbuch; 4420).
  • Walser, Robert: The pond. Scenes. Translated by Handel Klaus u. Raphael Urweider . Ed. V. Reto Sorg. Insel Verlag, Berlin 2014 (Insel-Bücherei; 1396)
  • Walser, Robert: The small zoo. Ed. V. Lucas Marco Gisi u. Reto Sorg. Insel Verlag, Berlin 2014 (Insel Taschenbuch; 4294)
  • Walser, Robert: micrograms. With 68 illustrations. Selected v. Lucas Marco Gisi, Reto Sorg u. Peter Stocker i. A. from the Robert Walser Foundation, Bern. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2011 (Suhrkamp Library).
  • Walser, Robert: In the office. Selected v. Reto Sorg u. Lucas Marco Gisi. Insel Verlag, Berlin 2011 (Insel Taschenbuch; 4087).
  • Walser, Robert: Deep winter. Ed. V. Margit Gigerl, Livia Knüsel u. Reto Sorg. Insel Verlag, Frankfurt a. M./Leipzig 2007 (Insel taschenbuch; 3326).

Library and catalog

The Robert Walser Center has the world's leading Walser library, in which texts by and about Robert Walser are collected. In addition to all editions of the Walser texts in German and in all tangible translations, this also includes research literature, journal articles and unpublished university papers. A central tool for international Walser research is the comprehensive library catalog, which is accessible in German and English on the centre's homepage. The Robert Walser Center has the most comprehensive collection of Walser translations.

Exhibitions

In the Robert Walser Center, changing exhibitions on the life, work and impact of Robert Walser are presented. So far, exhibitions on Walser's books during his lifetime in first editions , on the micrograms and on the original letters have been shown, as well as exhibitions in collaboration with the artists Robert Frank, Tilo Steireif, Thomas Hirschhorn and Yves Netzhammer .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Voluntary . In: Robert Walser Center (Ed.): Writings of the Robert Walser Center . tape 4 . Bern 2018, p. 53-54 .
  2. ↑ Roman Bucheli: The homecoming of the poet. In: NZZ.ch (Neue Zürcher Zeitung). October 28, 2008. Retrieved November 15, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Catherine Arber: New home for Robert Walser. In: Der Bund of July 12, 2008.
  4. ↑ Alexandra von Arx: The lucky fall of Bern. In: NZZ.ch (Neue Zürcher Zeitung). September 8, 2011, accessed November 19, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Lucas Marco Gisi: Estate, Archive . In: Lucas Marco Gisi (ed.): Robert Walser manual. Life - work - effect . JB Metzler, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-476-02418-3 , pp. 359-362 .
  6. ↑ Voluntarily at the Robert Walser Center. Commitment and experience in everyday life in a cultural institution. In: Arthur Mohr and Reto Sorg. (Ed.): Writings of the Robert Walser Center . 1st edition. tape 4 . Robert Walser Center, Bern 2017, p. 57 .
  7. ↑ Roman Bucheli: Robert Walser's malicious rogue: “I am still about the ninth greatest Swiss poet” | NZZ . In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . October 23, 2018, ISSN  0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed November 15, 2018]).
  8. ^ A b Robert Walser Center: The Center. In: Robert Walser Center. Retrieved November 15, 2018 (German / English).
  9. ^ Robert Walser Center: Library Catalog. Retrieved November 19, 2018 (German / English).
  10. ^ Robert Walser Center: Bibliography / Catalog. In: Robert Walser Center. Retrieved November 28, 2018 .
  11. ^ Reto Sorg: Afterword. In: Robert Frank: Ferne Nahe / Distant Closeness. Homage for / A Tribute to Robert Walser. 21 Photographs / 21 Photographs . In: Robert Walser Center (Ed.): Writings of the Robert Walser Center . tape 3 . Bern 2012.
  12. ↑ https://www.artforum.com/index.php?pn=picks&id=65173&view=print Artforum on December 13, 2016 in English: Tilo Steireif v. Sean O'Toole
  13. ^ Bettina Aeberhard: Traces of a walker . Ed .: Berner Kulturagenda. Bern April 19, 2018, p. 12 .

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