The Wedding Space is a Berlin-based experiment in creative research and cohabitation. The Space itself houses resident and visiting researchers, allowing for creative, political, philosophical, and other kinds of cross-pollination and collaboration. The project is friendly to alternative academic pursuits, but is not an explicitly academic space. It hosts diverse events, ranging from queer sewing circles to art expositions to philosophical lecture series. Our event series is largely informed by resident work and community interest. For a list of our upcoming events, to visit the Current Resident Page, to apply for the residency program, visit our website at theweddingspaceberlin.wordpress.com. The project was founded in memory of my grandfather, Alfred Mann, a German musician, writer, conductor, translator, and musicologist who fled to the States during the war. Accordingly, the first resident project of The Wedding Space is a taking-up of the translation project he left when he passed away in 2006– a set of letters between Brahms and Clara Schumann. The Wedding Space is, in part, a Berlin-based library and archive of Alfred's work, letters, and archival objects not included in either the American Holocaust Memorial or Alfred's archive at Eastman School of Music's Sibley Library. For more information about this specific translation project, to visit the archive, or for more about Alfred and his mother, Edith Weiß-Mann, visit our website at theweddingspaceberlin.wordpress.com.
