ÖDNIS, artist book, 2026
Photography: Meike Männel
Text author: Sven Pfizenmaier
Publisher: Kopf & Kragen Literaturverlag
Design: Ruben August Fischer
Edition: 1/500 pc., each numbered
15 × 10.5 cm, 80 pages
ISBN: 978-3-949729-17-1
Ödnis (Resonanzen #1) brings literature and art together in a portrait of the present. Meike Männel’s photographs capture the disintegration of the bourgeois promise of order and security. Sven Pfizenmaier, winner of the Aspekte Literature Prize, writes about the pressure to be productive, exhaustion and the right to be lazy.
Together, they use quiet wit to explore how we might make a place for ourselves in the world without coming to terms with it. Ödnis is a space of resonance. For all of us.
“Sometimes I no longer even know what work has any value at all.”
In our new series, Resonanzen, writers and visual artists meet in an open exchange: Two voices. Two media. No hierarchy. No illustration.
Each volume is published in a limited, individually numbered edition, conceived both as a bibliophile’s collector’s item and as an invitation to reflect on the present: its fractures, contradictions and absurdities, and on what connects us despite everything. Or perhaps what doesn’t. Kopf & Kragen Literaturverlag
ÖDNIS, artist book, 2026
Photography: Meike Männel
Text author: Sven Pfizenmaier
Publisher: Kopf & Kragen Literaturverlag
Design: Ruben August Fischer
Edition: 1/500 pc., each numbered
15 × 10.5 cm, 80 pages
ISBN: 978-3-949729-17-1
Ödnis (Resonanzen #1) brings literature and art together in a portrait of the present. Meike Männel’s photographs capture the disintegration of the bourgeois promise of order and security. Sven Pfizenmaier, winner of the Aspekte Literature Prize, writes about the pressure to be productive, exhaustion and the right to be lazy.
Together, they use quiet wit to explore how we might make a place for ourselves in the world without coming to terms with it. Ödnis is a space of resonance. For all of us.
“Sometimes I no longer even know what work has any value at all.”
In our new series, Resonanzen, writers and visual artists meet in an open exchange: Two voices. Two media. No hierarchy. No illustration.
Each volume is published in a limited, individually numbered edition, conceived both as a bibliophile’s collector’s item and as an invitation to reflect on the present: its fractures, contradictions and absurdities, and on what connects us despite everything. Or perhaps what doesn’t. Kopf & Kragen Literaturverlag