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

展览《我是一个相机：英国作家眼中的柏林神话》将于2021年夏天在柏林的文学馆举行。它将以传统展品(书籍、地图、手稿信件、日记、照片)和电影剪辑、广播以及特别逼真的声音装置为特色。展览的核心是柏林作为一个国际化和超凡脱俗的城市的神话，因克里斯托弗·伊舍伍德的小说《诺里斯先生改变火车》(1935)和《再见柏林》(1939)以及随后的戏剧和电影改编而闻名。这次展览重温了这个神话，将其视为起源于世纪之交的英国世界主义写作在柏林和关于柏林的更长历史的一部分，其中包括H·G·威尔斯、鲁伯特·布鲁克、弗吉尼亚·伍尔夫、阿里克斯·斯特拉奇、爱德华·萨克维尔-韦斯特、W·H·奥登和斯蒂芬·斯彭德的作品--所有这些人都将参展。展品将把关键主题(如夜生活、性、和平主义、电影)与城市中的特定空间联系起来。将特别注意妇女和“酷儿”旅行者和作家的贡献。一个创新的音响装置将创造一个英国文学柏林的音景，将城市的地形与英国作家的具体作品联系起来。该装置将使城市作为一个国际化空间的理念栩栩如生，并将鼓励观众通过参观或重新参观相关的城市位置，在博物馆之外继续体验展览。文学之家的展览将得到布莱克韦尔大厅、牛津韦斯顿图书馆和洪堡大学历史主楼(柏林)的两个‘相框’展品的支持。画框展览将是免费的，并将集中在特定地点的主题(例如，在牛津，它将大量利用Bodleian图书馆收藏的Stephen Spender论文)。展览目录将是一本吸引人的、插图丰富的全双语书籍，以一种引人入胜的方式撰写，旨在向非专业公众传达最先进的学术研究。它将聚焦于特定的主题，如作为国际化空间的城市，英国女性旅行者，柏林同性恋，文学和魏玛电影，以及20世纪20年代和20世纪20年代的关系。该目录将在文艺复兴书店和该市其他地方出售。在展览之外，它的主题将在一系列相关活动中得到进一步调查，这些活动旨在让不同的观众受益，包括文学爱好者、学生和教师。在柏林，文学之家将开展一项繁忙的计划，包括阅读、演讲、小组讨论和电影放映，旨在吸引不同的观众。在牛津，Bodleian图书馆将举办一个以活动为重点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，并根据展品开发课堂资源；它还将定期在展览上以翻译交流图书俱乐部为主题。

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.