Editorial

Dear friends of Schirmer/Mosel Publishers,

I’m pleased to present my fall list 2025. As you know, I celebrated my 80th birthday this year and my 50th anniversary as a publisher last year. Some of my authors have major birthdays and anniversaries as well, accompanied by exhibitions and retrospectives (see p. 48/49):

Anselm Kiefer (March 8), Rainer Werner Fassbinder (May 31), and Wim Wenders (August 14) are turning 80, while Anton Corbijn celebrates his 70th birthday on May 20. The 50th anniversary of the death of great photographer Herbert List was on April 4.

A major international anniversary: On May 8, the world commemorates the end of World War II eighty years ago in Europe and Asia.

Major exhibitions worth mentioning in their own right are Surrealism and German Romanticism at the Hamburg Kunsthalle, Henri Cartier-Bresson: Watch, Watch, Watch at the Fotoarsenal Vienna, and a major Gabriele Münter show, In Deep Waters, at the Guggenheim Museum in New York (Nov 2025 – Apr 2026). To mark the occasion, we are publishing Münter’s photographs documenting her 1899/1900 trip to the US and her life with Wassily Kandinsky.

Gerhard Richter will be honored for his life’s work at the Paris Espace Louis Vuitton.

Major exhibitions will be accompanied by Schirmer/Mosel publications. First and foremost is Five Friends at the Museum Brandhorst in Munich, subsequently traveling on to the Museum Ludwig in Cologne. It deals with the work, collaboration, and friendship, of composer John Cage, choreographer and dancer Merce Cunningham, painters and sculptors Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, and Cy Twombly. Our hardcover publication is available in separate German and English editions.

Our popular series “One Picture and Ist Story” presents several new volumes: Cage’s collaboration with German com poser Karlheinz Stockhausen; German philosopher Jürgen Habermas in discussion with students; Jeff Wall’s famous Thinker. Told by the photographer himself, the volume on Thomas Struth’s 2011 portrait of Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip is now available.

Another highlight of our fall program is the German edition of American photographer Sam Shaw‘s letters to and pictures of Marilyn Monroe. Our German-language edition of Henri Matisse’s 1947 artist’s book Jazz features, for the first time, all texts and images by the artist. With love and a wink, Claus Goedicke presents colorful pictures of plastic bottles, design highlights of the packaging industry. Our series “Cityscapes in Early Photographs” presents the city of Braunschweig in the 19th century. Bernd und Hilla Becher: Geschichte einer Methode explores the photographers’ methodical approach.

Good luck with our fall program and many thanks for your efforts and interest.

Keep going!