Wolke Blog

The Wolke Blog features essays, interviews, short video and audio presentations, and behind-the-scenes glimpses into the publishing house: On the blog, you’ll find our book recommendation of the month, additional information about our titles, and much more. Here, authors, artists, and the Wolke team write about books, projects, events, and topics that interest us—sometimes directly related to our catalog, and sometimes far beyond it. 

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Bettina Zimmermann – con tutta forza: Bernd Alois Zimmermann – A Personal Portrait

Bettina Zimmermann, die Tochter des Komponisten Bernd Alois Zimmermann, veröffentlichte nach über zehnjähriger Recherche 2018 zum 100. Geburtstag ihres Vaters das Buch con tutta forza: Bernd Alois Zimmermann. Ein persönliches Porträt. Darin zeichnet sie anhand von Zeitzeugenberichten, Dokumenten und persönlichen Erinnerungen ein vielschichtiges Bild des Komponisten und möchte das bisher vorherrschende, einseitige Verständnis seiner Persönlichkeit und seines Werks erweitern.
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Jonas Reichert – Microtonality in Mexico

The book paints a portrait of Julián Carrillo, who sought to break the boundaries of the Western tonal system with his concept of “Sonido 13” in the early 20th century. Includes a video by the author accompanying the book.
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Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka – “I hear the stones, see the sound, and read the water.”

Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka explores audio-musical theater as an experimental art form in which sound, space, and stage design merge. Includes a personal essay by the author about her book.
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Lauren Newton – Vocal Adventures. Free Improvisation in Sound, Space, Spirit, and Song

With *Vocal Adventures*, Lauren Newton—one of the great pioneers of vocal improvisation—presents a book about the voice that is as personal as it is practical.
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Magdalena Zorn – This Is Not Music: Acoustheology in Late Modernism

In late modernity, sound has become a central concept: music and acoustics promise connection, meaning, and immersion. Magdalena Zorn explores this development through the lens of “acoustheology.” Includes a video about her book.
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Nikolaus Gerszewski – The Objective mind

Nikolaus mind Objective mind is less a commentary than a statement—an uncompromising attempt to reveal art as a form of thought that exists beyond taste and opinion. Includes a short video accompanying his book.
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Peter Kraut – Where Does the Music End?

In *Where Does the Music End?*, Peter Kraut explores the boundaries of music and its internal contradictions through 100 paired reflections. Drawing on music history, pop culture, and the philosophy of sound, he develops a line of thought that questions music.
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Eloain Lovis Hübner – Structuring the World in a Queer Way [?]

The essay conceives of compositional thinking as a practice of opening up, queering, and rearranging the world—beyond traditional notions of authorship and control. With personal remarks by Eloain Lovis Hübner on the book.
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New release: the SYNKOPEN series

SYNKOPEN marks the launch of a new series that tackles the radical contemporary issues facing music in the 21st century. Fast-paced, edgy, and fragmentary in its approach, it brings together voices from the fields of composition, philosophy, theory, and art.
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Wolke-Jahresvorschau 2025

Ein bewegter Start: Wolke Verlag zieht ins Berliner FMP1, feiert das erste Spring Fest und blickt auf ein Halbjahr mit 16 Neuerscheinungen zurück – von Jedenfalls werden wir uns alle dort treffen… bis Dvořáks Prophezeiung. Dazu der Start ins Zeitschriftengeschäft mit den Monheim Papers und 13 Reasons.

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