Paul Scheerbart (1863-1915) was a visionary German novelist, theorist, poet, and artist who made a lasting impression on such icons of modernism as Walter Benjamin, Bruno Taut, and Walter Gropius. Fascinated with the potential of glass architecture,...
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Paul Scheerbart (1863-1915) was a visionary German novelist, theorist, poet, and artist who made a lasting impression on such icons of modernism as Walter Benjamin, Bruno Taut, and Walter Gropius. Fascinated with the potential of glass architecture, Scheerbart's satirical fantasies envisioned an electrified future, a world composed entirely of crystalline, colored glass.In 1912, Scheerbart published The Light Club of Batavia, a Novelle about the formation of a club dedicated to building a spa for bathing-not in water, but in light-at the bottom of an abandoned mineshaft. Translated here into E
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A small, silent utopia, an introduction / by Josiah McElhenyDer Lichtklub von Batavia : eine Damen-Novellette / von Paul Scheerbart -- The light club of Batavia : a ladies novelette / by Paul Scheerbart ; translated from the German by Wilhelm Werthern -- From the shadows, a poem / by Gregg Bordowitz and Ulrike Müller -- The club of visionaries, a play / by Andrea Geyer -- The light spa in the mine, a short story / by Josiah McElheny -- Über Scheerbart / von Georg Hecht -- About Scheerbart / by Georg Hecht ; translated from the German by Barbara Schroeder -- On Scheerbart, an essay / by Branden W. Joseph.
