Dans un grenier à Stockholm, Daniel Birnbaum trouve un classeur abandonné portant la mention « Papiers laissés par Imm ». Les documents ainsi conservés ont appartenu à son grand-père Immanuel et dévoilent l’incroyable histoire de ce journaliste, connu par son nom de plume « Dr B. », qui arrive en Suède comme réfugié au début de la Guerre. Fils du cantor de la synagogue de Königsberg, converti au protestantisme, condisciple de Walter Benjamin, Immanuel Birnbaum a fui le nazisme en 1933 pour...

The former director of the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm makes his literary debut with this dramatic and riveting novel of book publishing, émigrés, spies, and diplomats in World War II Sweden based on his grandfather’s lifeIn 1933, after Hitler and the Nazi Party consolidated power in Germany, Immanuel Birnbaum, a German-Jewish journalist based in Warsaw, is forbidden from writing for newspapers in his homeland. Six years later, just months before the German i...

WORLDBUILDING: Gaming and Art in the Digital Age examines the relationship between gaming and time-based media art. It is the first transgenerational show of this scope to survey how contemporary artists world-wide are appropriating the aesthetics and technology of gaming as their form of expression. Commissioned by the Julia Stoschek Foundation and curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, the exhibition features works by more than 50 artists, including Rebecca Allen, Cory Arcangel, LaTurbo Avedon, ...

Nella Stoccolma degli anni Quaranta, città crocevia di emigrati, esuli, diplomatici e spie, il giornalista Immanuel Birnbaum, che firma i suoi pezzi con lo pseudonimo Dr. B., inizia a collaborare con l’editore tedesco in esilio Gottfried Bermann Fischer. Immanuel, però, non è solo un giornalista e un redattore, ma collabora anche con i servizi segreti inglesi per diffondere propaganda antinazista in Germania. Tramite questa attività verrà a conoscenza di un piano segreto che potrebbe cambi...

The former director of the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm makes his literary debut with this dramatic and riveting novel of book publishing, émigrés, spies, and diplomats in World War II Sweden based on his grandfather’s life.In 1933, after Hitler and the Nazi Party consolidated power in Germany, Immanuel Birnbaum, a German Jewish journalist based in Warsaw, is forbidden from writing for newspapers in his homeland. Six years later, just months before the German ...

WORLDBUILDING: Videospiele und Kunst im digitalen Zeitalter untersucht die Beziehung zwischen Gaming und zeitbasierter Medienkunst. Es ist die erste generationenübergreifende Ausstellung dieser Größenordnung, die einen Überblick vermittelt, wie sich zeitgenössische Künstler*innen weltweit Ästhetiken und Technologien aus dem Videospielbereich für ihre Praxis aneignen.Das Projekt präsentiert Arbeiten von mehr als 50 Künstler*innen, darunter Rebecca Allen, Cory Arcangel, LaTur...

När Daniel Birnbaum rensar i vindsutrymmet hemma hittar han en smutsbrun papplåda som det står hans farfars namn på. Inuti ligger en hel epok bevarad. Det visar sig handla om några av de av de mest spänningsfyllda åren i svensk nittonhundratalshistoria, 1939-1943. Det var då Stockholm blev ett centrum för världspolitiska krafter, hotellreceptionerna fylldes av hemlighetsfulla män och kvinnor med viktiga uppdrag och vardagslivet präglades av osäkerhet och rädsla. Plötsligt kunde vad som hel...

Ein Karton voll vergessener Briefe erzählt die wahre Geschichte des »Dr. B.«Stockholm 1940. Das neutrale Schweden bietet deutschen Emigranten Zuflucht vor den Nazis. Auch Gottfried Bermann Fischer, der legendäre Verleger, ist in die schwedische Hauptstadt geflohen. Mithilfe einflussreicher Freunde gelingt es ihm, einen Exilverlag zu gründen, in dem auch Thomas Mann und Stefan Zweig ihre Werke publizieren. Doch Stockholm wird zunehmend unsicher, und Bermann Fischer w...

The former director of the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm makes his literary debut with this dramatic and riveting novel of book publishing, émigrés, spies, and diplomats in World War II Sweden based on his grandfather’s lifeIn 1933, after Hitler and the Nazi Party consolidated power in Germany, Immanuel Birnbaum, a German-Jewish journalist based in Warsaw, is forbidden from writing for newspapers in his homeland. Six years later, just months before the German i...

The former director of the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm makes his literary debut with this dramatic and riveting novel of book publishing, émigrés, spies, and diplomats in World War II Sweden based on his grandfather’s life.In 1933, after Hitler and the Nazi Party consolidated power in Germany, Immanuel Birnbaum, a German Jewish journalist based in Warsaw, is forbidden from writing for newspapers in his homeland. Six years later, just months before the German ...