1925: The book as stage and atlas
With Marlene Bart und Johannes Breuer

In the seventh episode of the second season of “About Bauhaus”, we focus on the “Bauhaus Books” series, which began to be published in 1925. In that year, the Bauhaus moved from Weimar to Dessau. A political shift to the right had deprived the Bauhaus in Weimar of its financial support. After long and arduous negotiations, this led to the school’s closure – and to the search for a new location. The left-governed industrial town of Dessau now offered the school new opportunities, although the move also brought many changes. The “Bauhaus Books” provided the school with a kind of public stage during this period of upheaval.

How the Bauhaus presented itself in 1925, how the Bauhaus Books were originally conceived, and what content they conveyed are topics I discuss with artist Marlene Bart and medical user interface designer Johannes Breuer. Together, they are the editors of an interdisciplinary publication series entitled “Atlas of Data Bodies”, whose latest issue also engages with the Bauhaus.