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Curator
“Window
to
the
city”
Wolfgang
Schopf
Wolfgang
Schopf
is
an
academic
of
literary
studies,
editor
and
curator.
He
is
in
charge
for
the
literary
collections
of
the
department
philology
and
the
archive
of
the
Goethe‐University
of
Frankfurt.
Here,
he
established
the
event
format
“Hauslesung”
in
which
literature
and
editorial
history
is
communicated
in
a
way
that
public
can
understand
and
associate
with.
Starting
at
the
Goethe‐University
he
hosted
this
format
in
Berlin,
at
the
LitCologne,
in
Marbach,
Tübingen
and
Zurich.
His
literature
exhibitions
were
shown
in
different
German
cities
as
well
as
in
Switzerland,
France
and
Great
Britain.
The
editions
and
monographs
of
Wolfgang
Schopf
have
been
published
in
the
publishing
companies
Suhrkamp,
Aufbau,
autrement,
Patmos
and
Neue
Kritik.
From
the
year
2000
–
2009
he
organized
the
archive
of
the
Peter
Suhrkamp
foundation
at
the
Goethe‐University
where
editions
of
letters
have
been
created,
i.e.
Theodor
W.
Adorno
–
Siegfried
Kracauer
(2009),
Wolfgang
Koeppen
–
Siegfried
Unseld
(2006),
Adorno
and
his
editors,
the
exchange
of
letters
between
Peter
Suhrkamp
and
Siegfried
Unseld
(2003).
Before
that
he
belonged
to
the
authors
of
the
picture
monograph
Im
Auge
des
Exils.
Josef
Breitenbach
und
die
Freie
Deutsche
Kultor
in
Paris
1933‐1941
(2001)
as
well
as
the
documentation
of
the
first
instance
which
the
Vatican
released
form
the
secret
archive:
Die
Macht
der
Zensur:
Heinrich
Heine
auf
dem
Index
(1998).
Previous
to
his
academic
career
Wolfgang
Schopf
startet
his
professional
life
in
a
belletristic
publishing
house.
Vera
Kern
Always
loved
literature.
Herefrom
as
a
consequence
she
studied
literary
studies
and
cultural
anthropology
at
the
Goethe‐University
Frankfurt.
As
intermediate
stations
she
worked
for
the
Goethe‐Institut
Frankfurt
as
well
as
at
a
business
editorial
office
and
works
since
then
as
a
freelance
editor.
On
behalf
of
the
Stroemfeld
publishing
company
she
arranged
an
exhibition
“
40
years
of
Stroemfeld”
in
the
German
National
Library
in
spring
2010.
Being
in
charge
for
the
display
cabinets
as
well
as
the
research
for
numerous
publisher
correspondence
and
all
kind
of
material,
she
discovers
a
new
passion:
not
only
read
and
edit
literature
but
also
to
present
it.
Consequently
she
teams
up
with
Wolfgang
Schopf
at
the
Goethe‐University
for
their
first
project:
“Abschaffel
//
Frankfurt
1977‐
Exhibition
at
the
Haus
am
Dom
für
the
event
Frankfurt
liest
ein
Buch
2012.
Now
then:
the
“Window
to
the
City”
at
the
Margarete.