Manuscripts - Rooms - Installations
Original manuscripts by the writer Annette von Droste-Hülshoff meet art installations: The authors Dorothee Elmiger and Nora Gomringer, the collectives Anna Kpok and Hyphen-Labs and the video artist Roman Hagenbrock reinterpret and restage the manuscripts and bring their worlds of thought into the present.
Image gallery
Ausstellungsansicht "Droste Digital. Handschriften – Räume – Installationen" im Stabi Kulturwerk, 2024. Rauminstallation „Klänge aus dem Orient“ von Anna Kpok mit Originalhandschriften von Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
Ausstellungsansicht "Droste Digital. Handschriften – Räume – Installationen" im Stabi Kulturwerk, 2024. Rauminstallation „Der Monitor leuchtet im Arbeitszimmer der Schriftstellerin“ von Dorothee Elmiger mit Originalhandschriften von Annette von Drost
Ausstellungsansicht "Droste Digital. Handschriften – Räume – Installationen" im Stabi Kulturwerk, 2024. Rauminstallation „Das Zimmer, die Bühne“ von Nora Gomringer mit Originalhandschriften von Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
The manuscripts from the writer's Meersburg estate show tiny, barely legible letters crowded together on the pages, often filling the paper to the brim with numerous corrections and revisions. Droste's manuscripts are impressive text images with an aesthetic all of their own. These manuscripts were extensively digitized from 2019 to 2021. The exhibition takes a close look at them and uses digital technologies to uncover the writing and creation processes.
Dorothee Elmiger's installation deals with the collections of motifs for Droste's best-known work “Die Judenbuche” and creates the study room of a writer then and now. Nora Gomringer deals with the early work “Bertha oder die Alpen” and stages Droste's children's and youth room with motifs from her own childhood in the 1980s. Almut Pape and Emese Bodolay from the artists' collective Anna Kpok have teamed up with musician Laura Eggert to develop a walk-in landscape from the poem cycle “Sounds from the Orient”, which is part of an entire “Orient cosmos” by Droste.Hyphen-Labs (Ece Tankal and Carmen Aguilar y Wedge) will explore the relationship between nature and culture based on the poem cycle “The Elements”, while Roman Hagenbrock will stage the working manuscript for Droste's work “The Unsung” as a projection onto a model of Hülshoff Castle.
“Droste Digital. Manuscripts - Rooms - Installations” is a production of Burg Hülshoff - Center for Literature in cooperation with the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. It is funded by the LWL-Kulturstiftung and the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media as part of the “Digitization in Culture and Media” programme.
Additional information
Exhibition space
Stabi Kulturwerk
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
Unter den Linden 8
10117 Berlin
Opening hours
Wednesday till Sunday 10.00 – 18.00
Thursday 10.00 – 20.00
Closed on Monday and Tuesday Montag
Free Admission
Educational Services
Public guided tours
Decipher original manuscripts by the writer Annette von Droste-Hülshoff and learn details and background information about the contemporary installations.
Thursdays at 6 p.m. on November 7, 28, 5, 12, December 2024.
Saturdays at 12 noon on November 30, 2024.
Participation is free of charge. Duration: 60 minutes. Meeting point: Entrance / Infopoint Stabi Kulturwerk.
No registration required for individual visitors. For groups of more than eight people, please register in advance.
Accessibility
The museum is fully wheelchair accessible.
Participating artists
Annette von Droste-Hülshoff
Dorothee Elmiger
Nora Gomringer
Roman Hagenbrock
Hyphen-Labs
Anna Kpok
