Literature, exhibitions and communication: A conversation

Authors

  • Heike Gfrereis German Literature Archive Marbach
  • Helmut Neundlinger Danube University Krems
  • Johan Schimanski University of Oslo
  • Ulrike Spring University of Oslo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5617/nm.7976

Abstract

Informed by her competence in literature and the theory and practice of exhibitions, Heike Gfrereis is Head of the Museum Department at the Archive of German Literature in Marbach, and curator of many literary exhibitions. Helmut Neundlinger, curator of the W. H. Auden Memorial Museum in Kirchstetten, is a writer, researcher and critic working at the Center for Museum Collections Management at the Danube University Krems and the literary collection of Lower Austria. The following “exchange of knowledge” between them and two researchers in the TRAUM– Transforming Author Museums project took place in Oslo in 2019. We discuss the desire to exhibit literature and not only biography, how one can free oneself from objects and how objects can create freedom, how to unlearn received notions of literature, the importance of interaction and play, what can make authors difficult to exhibit, and the economic realities of exhibiting literature.

Author Biographies

  • Heike Gfrereis, German Literature Archive Marbach

    Head of the Museum Department

  • Helmut Neundlinger, Danube University Krems

    Center for Museum Collection Management

    Department for Arts and Cultural Studies

  • Johan Schimanski, University of Oslo

    Department of Literature, Area studies and European Languages

    Professor

     

     

     

     

  • Ulrike Spring, University of Oslo

    Department of Archeology, Conservation and History

    Associate Professor

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Published

2020-05-27