Writers & Thinkers Conversations on thinking by hand
Welcome to the place where we celebrate the love of pen, paper and notebooks. Directors talk about how they write scripts. Musicians open their songbooks. Designers show their sketches. Scientists report on their research notes. Authors talk about how they create scenarios
Écrire et dessiner stimulent mon intuition
Il n’y a probablement aucun endroit aux alentours de Gesa Hansen où ne traîne pas un carnet, qui n’attend que se...
Norman Ohler’s book Blitzed, which explores drug use in the military of the Third Reich, was an instant international bestseller. His latest book, Tripped, c...
Anna Kuen is a visual artist, model and DJ. A life without notebooks is unimaginable for her. She needs pen and paper to process her ideas – and to rid herse...
Martin Lotze is a neuroscientist who has put people in MRI scanners and watched their brains write. What did he observe? He explains what he has found out in...
Sarah Winkelmann is 28 and pursues an extreme hobby: Arctic expeditions. She and ten other participants crossed the icy wastes of Greenland in 28 days. On ev...
Martin Janner is a forester. For his work, he needs a sharp memory, imagination and vision. He must know the history of his forests in order to secure their ...
Alexa Hennig von Lange comes from a family of chroniclers. Her grandmother dictated her life story onto tapes. Her grandfather kept diaries. The author also ...
Lisa Morgenstern is a pianist, singer and composer. She writes soundtracks for successful television series and creates complex worlds of sound. She uses pen...
Steffen Mumm is an artist. He works with canvases, spray cans and printing plates. He makes signet rings, socks and silk cloths; he loves Bullet Journals, sk...
Daniel Donskoy moves effortlessly between music, acting and literature. Notebooks are where his melodies first take shape, characters begin to breathe and fl...
When Ju Schnee stops thinking, something remarkable happens: forms begin to emerge. It’s been this way all her life. Pen, paper and notebook are never far fr...
Lukas Hoffmann created an app centred on reading. Through his reading circles, people come together to read in silence – free from distractions and screens. ...
