„Manarah“ is a term of Arabic origin. It means lighthouse or signpost. I have chosen this term for my series of magazine-like artist’s books. Each issue or volume in this series is meant to be a place shedding light in the sense that it offers orientation. Each issue covers one topic. Issue 3 is all about Love. It comes with …

This is a video of me working on my KORREX proofing press. It was made in 2010 while I was printing the sheets for “Mir fehlt ein Wort” my artist’s book on Kurt Tucholsky. Back then the studio was located in the south of Germany. For one day my workplace was turned into a film set. Sven Löffler and his …

Paul Klee was 42 years of age when he took up teaching at bauhaus in Weimar. His „Pedagogic Sktechbook“ was first published in 1925 by Walter Gropius and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy as volume 2 of the series „bauhausbücher“. From this book Paul Klee’s notion of the arrow ist quoted and made the theme of this artist’s book. The ideas of Klee’s …

With a heavy heart we decided to cancel this event due to the current development of coronavirus infections. Save the date!At 7. Biennale Buchkunst Weimar in late November 2019 my new artist’s book was hot off the press: “Paul Klee – Der Pfeil”. It was acquired by Klassikstiftung Weimar for the bauhaus-collection.On 15 March 2020 I’ll be presenting this book …

The schedule of events in August is finalised. There is much you can choose from: Open Studio, an exhibition of artist’s books, readings, guided tours. During the “tales in the barn” there’ll be readings from a choice of my artist’s books accompanied by the stories how the books came into being from a first glimpse of an idea through to …

In 1999 I started making books in my own studio. What I had at the time was one proofing press and some metal type and a lot of enthusiasm. I went to a number of bookbinding classes. Two decades on from then I have two proofing presses, a number of smaller platen presses, some estimated 10 tons of metal type …

On 15 March 2019 we’ll be open for visitors. Add to this: visitors can have their go and pull a print from movable type on one of the presses. This is to celebrate that printmaking techniques like relief printing, intaglio, letterpress, lithography and others have been awarded cultural heritage status last year on 15 March. There are more than 230 …

There are two Open Studio events coming up this year!The first will be on 15 March celebrating the first anniversary of artistic printmaking techniques being awarded cultural heritage status in Germany. We’ll be open on the Friday from 3pm to 8pm giving visitors the opportunity to have a go at one of the presses. More on this event and the …

William Shakespeare died on April 23rd in 1616. By then, besides his plays, he had written 154 sonnets. In 2016, 400 years after his death, the Centre for the Study of the Book at the Bodleian Library in Oxford called printmakers worldwide to print all of Shakespeare’s sonnets afresh. I consider myself lucky that I was given the opportunity to …

On 15 March 2018 traditional printing techniques have been awarded cultural heritage status by UNESCO. One year on many printmaking artists and printing studios open their doors and offer a wealth of opportunities to look and feel and make experiences with all sorts of printing techniques. Here at The Fork and Broom Press studio visitors will be able to have …