Escape to Berlin
Subtitle: a travel memoir = Flucht nach Berlin : eine Reiseerinnerung
By: Adrian Piper ; German translation by Suzanne Schmidt
Publisher: Adrian Piper Research Archive Foundation Berlin
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Berlin, Germany
Language: eng; ger
Number of pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9783981376340
Subjects: Biography; Autobiography in art; Travel in art
Other titles: Flucht nach Berlin
Notes: "In 2005 Adrian Piper secretly emigrated from the United States. Several months passed before anyone realized she had disappeared. She resurfaced in Berlin and has lived there ever since. Piper has consistently and firmly refused to return to the U.S. or explain why she left. Many assume it was because she discovered her name on the U.S. Department of Transportation Security’s Suspicious Travelers Watch List. Others point to Wellesley College’s forcible termination of her tenured Full Professorship. Yet others speculate that George W. Bush’s presidency, or American racism, or the invasion of Iraq compelled her to leave. All of these conjectures are groundless. ESCAPE TO BERLIN: A Travel Memoir is a gripping autobiographical narrative that provides a full account of the facts," --Artist's website (viewed on February 7, 2018)

Gift; David Platzker, 2018.

English and German on facing pages.

Gift of David Platzker.