German edition of Writing the memory of the city. Berlin is still the city of writing of modern times. This book assembles 15 Berlin artists from a circle that originated in writing. They are linked by a long, partly shared experience in Berlin‘s public space. The reader is given an insight into the ideas and thoughts of a heretofore hermetic movement, whose effects are mainly revealed on the surface. Alongside an assortment of essays, they lead us on a journey away from the common city image, and into a remarkable landscape of outlooks and strata, spaces and dreams, visible and invisible cities. In 2007 Markus Mai and Thomas Wiczak invited 18 other artists with a background in graffitiwriting to join their concept book “Das Gedächtnis der Stadt schreiben” / ”Writing the Memory of the City”. Every participant presents own, individual ways of letting their past of writing graffiti (for often more than 15 or even 20 years) influence their works nowadays. The full list of featured artists reads like a who-is-who of avant-garde stylewriting even today, ten years after it’s release. The importance the book had and still has, not only in the Berlin graffiti scene, lead us to the idea of interviewing it’s authors concerning the 10th anniversary of this book. As unique as the artists movement away from traditional writing is, as diverse are their ways of presenting new forms of expression, always connected to their roots. The reader does not only get the chance to follow them through photographic documentation of their works (AKIM, Konrad Mühe, etc.), but also is invited to join their often emotional and reflective thoughts and ideas on their creations (Wilhelm Klotzek, TRY ONE, etc.). In addition to texts and photographs “Writing the Memory of the City” also consists of paperworks. The sketches of writers like NICK, BROM and Christian Schellenberger are shown as equal artworks. Often texts, photographs and sketches are even connected as for example in BUS126s chapter. He explains how the often floral structures and organic outlines he uses, became part of his artworks after a process of letter-building in wild nature. The book unites some of the most interesting artists of the mid 2000s. Although Berlin is not mentioned as main-city, the book focuses on writers from the German capital. As Mare139 describes in one of the five essays you can also find in this publication, the similar social circumstances of New York in the 1970s and Berlin in the 1980s, might hint a clue to that fact. “Writing the Memory of the City” is an often overlooked classic but a must-have for everybody who wants to look over the edge of the plate when it comes to stylewriting. Featured artists are Daniel Tagno, BROM, TRY ONE, NICK, Christian Schellenberger, Thomas Wiczak, SPAIR, Matthias Wermke, MARE139, SKKI, Peter Osten, Stefan Micheel, Meira Ahmemulic, Donwood Bricks, Wilhlem Klotzek, AKIM ONE, P. Vector Codierer, BUS126, Konrad Mühe and Thomas Bratzke.