'I am a Camera: The Berlin Myth through the Eyes of English Writers'

"我是一台相机：英国作家眼中的柏林神话"展览将于2021年夏季在柏林的文学之家举行。它将以传统展品（书籍，地图，手稿信件，日记，照片）和电影剪辑，广播和特别实现的声音装置的混合物为特色。展览的核心是柏林作为一个国际化和海侵城市的神话，这座城市因克里斯托弗·伊舍伍德的小说《诺里斯先生换火车》（1935年）和《再见柏林》（1939年）以及随后的戏剧和电影改编而闻名。展览将这一神话重新审视，将其视为柏林及其周边的世界性英国写作的更长历史的一部分，这一历史起源于世纪之交，其中包括H. G.作者：威尔斯，鲁珀特布鲁克，弗吉尼亚伍尔夫，阿利克斯斯特雷奇，爱德华萨克维尔-韦斯特，W. H.奥登和斯蒂芬斯彭德-他们都将精选。展览将把关键主题（如夜生活、性、和平主义、电影）与城市的特定空间联系起来。将特别关注妇女和"酷儿"旅行者和作家的贡献。一个创新的声音装置将创造一个文学柏林的英国音景，将城市的地形与英国作家的具体作品联系起来。该装置将使城市成为一个国际化的空间，并将鼓励观众通过参观或重新参观相关的城市地点来继续博物馆外的展览体验。文学馆的展览将由布莱克威尔大厅的两个"框架"展览支持，韦斯顿图书馆（牛津）和洪堡大学历史悠久的主楼（柏林）。框架展览将是免费的，并将集中在特定地点的主题（在牛津，例如，它将大量借鉴斯蒂芬斯彭德文件在博德利图书馆举行）。展览目录将是一本有吸引力的、插图丰富的、完全双语的书，以一种引人入胜的方式编写，旨在向非专业公众传达最先进的学术研究。它将专注于特定的主题，如城市作为一个国际化的空间，英国女性旅行者，同性恋柏林，文学和魏玛电影，以及20世纪20年代和21世纪20年代之间的关系。该目录将在Literaturhaus书店和该市的其他地点销售。在展览之外，它的主题将在一系列相关活动中进一步研究，旨在使不同的观众受益，包括文学爱好者，学生和教师。在柏林，文学之家将举办一个忙碌节目，包括阅读、讲座、小组讨论和电影放映，旨在吸引多样化的观众。在牛津，Bodleian图书馆将举办一个以活动为中心的研讨会和一个阅读活动，作为"弹出式图书馆"的一部分。同样在牛津，斯蒂芬·斯彭德信托基金会将在展览的基础上为六年级学生举办一个研讨会，并根据展览开发课堂资源;它还将以展览为主题定期举办翻译交流读书俱乐部。

The exhibition 'I am a Camera: The Berlin Myth through the Eyes of English Writers' will take place in Berlin's Literaturhaus in summer 2021. It will feature a mixture of traditional exhibits (books, maps, manuscript letters, diaries, photographs) and film clips, broadcasts and an especially realised sound installation. At the heart of the exhibition is the myth of Berlin as a cosmopolitan and transgressive city made famous by Christopher Isherwood's novels Mr Norris Changes Trains (1935) and Good-bye to Berlin (1939), and subsequent theatre and film adaptations. The exhibition revisits this myth by viewing it as part of a longer history of cosmopolitan British writing in and about Berlin that originated in the turn of the century, and that includes works by H.G. Wells, Rupert Brooke, Virginia Woolf, Alix Strachey, Edward Sackville-West, W.H. Auden and Stephen Spender - all of whom will be featured. Exhibits will link key themes (e.g. nightlife, sexuality, pacifism, cinema) to specific spaces in the city. Special attention will be paid to the contributions of women and 'queer' travellers and writers. An innovative sound installation will create a British soundscape of literary Berlin, connecting the topography of the city to specific works by British authors. The installation will bring to life the idea of the city as a cosmopolitan space, and will encourage viewers to continue the experience of the exhibition out of the museum by visiting or revisiting relevant urban locations.The exhibition in the Literaturhaus will be supported by two 'frame' exhibits in Blackwell Hall, in the Weston Library (Oxford) and in the historic main building of the Humboldt-Universität (Berlin). The frame exhibits will be free of charge and will be focused on site-specific themes (in Oxford, for instance, it will draw heavily on the Stephen Spender papers held in the Bodleian Library). The exhibition catalogue will be an attractive, richly illustrated, fully bilingual book, written in an engaging way aimed at communicating state-of-the-art academic research to a non-specialist public. It will focus on specific themes such as the city as a cosmopolitan space, British women travellers, gay and lesbian Berlin, literature and Weimar cinema, and the relationship between the 1920s and the 2020s. The catalogue will be on sale in the Literaturhaus bookshop and other locations in the city.Outside the exhibition, its topic will be further investigated in a series of related events designed to benefit different audiences, including lovers of literature, school students and teachers. In Berlin, the Literaturhaus will run a busy programme of readings, talks, panel discussions and film showings designed to appeal to a diverse audience. In Oxford, the Bodleian Library will run an activity-focused workshop and a reading as part of a 'pop-up library'. Also in Oxford, the Stephen Spender Trust will build on the exhibition in order to run a workshop for 6th Form students and develop classroom resources based on the exhibits; it will also theme its termly Translation Exchange Book Club on the exhibition.