New Releases etcetera press berlin

In her volume Zur Sache: Kunstakademie (To the Point: Art Academy), Katia Tangian confidently navigates the tension between essay, memoir and polemic, undertaking nothing less than a reckoning with the myth-shrouded art academy system in the Federal Republic between 1960 and 2010.

Tangian depicts a system characterised by self-promotion, abuse of power and structural irresponsibility: professors who use the academy as a stage for their vanity, arbitrarily crossing out or tearing up students' work and confusing teaching with authoritarian posturing.

90 mirror neuroses is Christiane Quandt's second volume of poetry published by this publisher, following on the magic mountain there is no room for everyone.
Here, too, the starting point is autobiographical/autofictional entries regularly published on social media, which describe everyday situations in a poetic, concise form, sorting and then jumbled up emotional states and identities.
Quandt uses language without embellishment, in constant metamorphosis, with biting humour and self-deprecating slapstick about vulnerability, neurodiversity and her own chronic illness, always with a keen sense of the immediate gap in the text, in everyday life, in life itself.

In her prose debut, author and photographer Susan Madsen reconstructs her anti-authoritarian childhood in Denmark.
These are short, often very short stories in which she laconically conveys the precarious living conditions of her childhood in an almost matter-of-fact, often humorous tone.
The stories are stripped down, with just a few lines suffice to capture and illuminate a scene or mood.


The event will be moderated by publisher and author Erec Schumacher.