Author Description

"With more than 100 photographs, Annette Kelm shows books - mostly first editions - by well-known and lesser-known authors whose works were burned during the National Socialist "Action against the Un-German Spirit" on May 10, 1933. Kelm's gaze at the carefully arranged books is cool and matter-of-fact. With strict precision, high image sharpness, neutral light and an "objective" camera point of view, she helps the motifs in her recordings to create a fascination with the factual. The orderly, linear presentation of the books and the associated well-known but forgotten biographies of the authors suggest equality and at the same time remind us of the polyphony of the Weimar Republic.00Exhibition: Museum Frieder Burda, Berlin, Germany (12-05 - 24-10- 2020) / Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Germany (02-04 - 04-09-2022) / ICA, Milano, Italy (16-09 - 15-10-2022) / Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, Germany (20-09- 2022 - 13-01-2023)." -- English translation from Google.