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The first catalogue raisonne
of the world-famous literary
cabinet of wonders in Berlin
Museum der unerhörten Dinge is a "Literary Cabinet of Curiosities" curated by Roland Albrecht, located between house numbers 5 and 6 on Crellestraße in Schöneberg, Berlin. The museum displays unique things and their unheard (of) stories, all categorized according to weight, and holds the record of being the most visited museum in Berlin (if one offsets the number of visitors to the square meters of the exhibition space).
Museum of Unheard (of) Things is the catalogue raisonné of the museum, assembling its entire current inventory, translated into English for the first time. It intends to grow as the museum collection expands. At the present moment (Fall 2015) it contains 78 items.
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272 pages
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ISBN: 978-0996944212
November 2015
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<0.001g How the Ahoy Came to Seafaring, or The Contribution of Sealess Bohemia to Sailing
<0.001g The Wasp Honeycomb Collection Point in Kröte
<0.001g Bruno Retlau and His Tone-Neutralizer, or The Audible Silence of Anti-Sound
0.001g The Mystery of the Black Feather, or The True Life of Artist Fellows in Wiepersdorf
0.001g On the Beginning of Light and On the End of Vegetarianism
0.001g Why the Ear-Slitting Surgeon Mathias Gotthilf Lauphner Is Also Called the “Father of Plastic Surgery”, or How the Correction of Ear-Slits Helped Middleclass Women to Attain a Second Beauty
0.002g How Curt Friedrich Ernst von Watzdorf, the Hussar of Wiesenburg, Pulled His Belt so Tight That It Tore, or How a Figure of Speech Became a Survival Strategy
0.002g The Olive Oaks (Quercus Olivae) of Wiepersdorf, or Were the Crossing Experiments of the Baron Achim von Arnim-Bärwalde Successful?
0.003g From the Gift-Portrait to the Passport Photo, or Mssr. Michel de Montaigne’s Modern ID Card
0.003g How a Waving Cat Lost Her Body but Her Paw Did Not lose Its Effect
0.004g Inner-Snails (Gastropodes Interiores) Genus: Early Acidic Water Snails (Protogastropodes Aquacidophiles) 23-136 Million Years Old
0.005g The History of the Callot Figures of Wiepersdorf
0.006g The Canary Birds of Fraxern, or How the Harzer Roller Found Its Voice
0.008g “The Fountain of Life”: On the Newly Decoded Sub-Image (Pentimento) of the Highly Acclaimed and Famous Painting “The Fountain of Youth”by Lucas Cranach the Elder
0.011g How Sigmund Freud Distanced Himself from the Basilisk, or On Basiliskmus and Narcissism
0.015g The Only Remaining Piece of Amber from the Legendary Amber Room in Königsberg Castle
0.017g The Impact of a Flash of Thought
0.018g How Balthasar Rihnwalde Explained the World With the Number 18 in 1599 and Then Disappeared
0.018g The Mystery of Time-Stones and Their Significance in the Lives of Herdsmen
0.022g Two Parts of a Typewriter on Which Walter Benjamin Wrote His Famous Essay “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”
0.022g On the Attempt to Make Children More Comfortable with Reading through the Instilling of Letters
0.023g How the Husum Protest Pig in Austria Became a Political Symbol and Nearly Replaced the Double-Headed Eagle
0.027g On Marin Marais’ Torments with the Seventh String and Why the Flute Was the Solution
0.029g The Fur of One of the Last Bonsai Deer from Eiho-ji Temple, Dated circa 1819
0.032g How the Edelweiss Became Famous, or The Flower of Countess Maria Franziska of Dornbirn
0.034g The Red Thread That Ran through the Life of the Marquis of Maillets and Some of the Red Powder That Remained
0.055g The Goethe-Rose
0.058g The Silence of the Chefs: Of Forks, Codfish, Edelweiss, and Marmots from the Avers
0.061g On the Impact of the Equator on the Inhabitants of Kröte (Wendland), or On the Earth-Ridge, Electron-Cord, Matterhorn and Africa
0.070g The Bells of the GDR: The Story of a Recording Containing the Bells of German Democratic Republic Which Prepared the Fall of the Wall and Heralded Its Collapse
0.073g On the History of Early Recording Technology, or The Word Bowls of Sanssouci and the Rediscovery of an Ancient Art
0.076g On Scapegoats and Their Descendants
0.077g The Devil’s Horse’s Hoof, or How the Devil Got His Foot
0.077g The Patience Thread
0.085g A Stone That Inspired Thomas Mann to Write about the Earth-Breast
0.091g Why No Edelweiss Grows on Berlin’s Kreuzberg, or On the Young Gardener Mathias Kleiner’s Misfortune
0.106g A St. Barbara Stone and Its Corresponding, Badly Damaged Shrine: The First Struck Stone of the Oldest Road Tunnel in the Alpine Region
0.109g A Splinter of Rock from Mount Ventoux (1,912m) Where Francesco Petrarca Sat on April 26, 1336, During the First Mountain Climb in History
0.1 1 5g The Gender of Havlings, or The Organization of Gendered Life
0.120g Casanova’s Incision
0.123g Beuys’ Primordial-Rabbits, or How Joseph Beuys Discovered Rabbits
0.124g Petrified Ice: An Extremely Rare Specimen of the So-Called Pseudo-Stone
0.135g The Children of Greifswald, or On the Whale in the Marketplace
0.136g A Reindeer Went to Spain: A Rare Case of Neurological Events in a Reindeer
0.141g The Basic Forms of Penguin Qi Gong, or Settling Yourself in the Ice
0.142g Marcel Rödiger, the Inventor of New Time, or How the Authorities Did Not Like It At All When the Day Became Twenty Hours and the Hour Fifty Minutes
0.143g “The Beguine and the Monk”: A Painting by Cornelis Cornelisz van Haarlem
0.143g Mussels from Which the Mother of Pearl Buttons of the Soldiers of Empress Maria Theresa Were Produced and Why a Case of These Buttons Can Be Found at the Museum of Regional Studies in Mexico
0.149g The Beggar on Hudson Street: A Film by Günter Eisenhardt
0.152g The Shoemaker, the Barber, and the Smells
0.168g The Mystery of Petrified Potatoes
0.169g The Inventors of Alphabet Soup, or How the Brothers Grimm Were Also Cooks
0.180g On the Essence and Significance of Time Agencies
0.197g The Story of a Children’s Race Car
0.198g The Telescope of Columbus, or How the First Exhibit in the Museum Came When
the Museum Did Not Yet Exist
0.206g The Augsburg Chicken
0.207g Training Seminar at Klein & Young, New York: A Film by Günter Eisenhardt
0.212g How a Photographic Image Venerated to This Day Was Created Thirty Years before the Invention of Photography, or How Two Lovers Were Unable to Find Each Other
0.214g The Power and Mystery of the Cow Pie: On a Cow-Pie-Worshipping Community Which Withdrew to the Engadine Valley, In Order to Establish a Cow Pie Cult but Failed
0.248g The Watchmaker Johannes Meiner’s Twenty-Four Hour Candle, or On the Struggle for the Right Time
0.265g On Jakob Wachter’s Missing Stick Badge, or On Love
0.268g How Mao Tse-tung Turned into St. Anthony of Padua, or On the Pious Peasants
of Xi Mu Lan in Fujian Province
0.276g Andreas Hofer: The Shot, or How the First Conserved Sound of the Shot of Andreas Hofer’s Execution Disappeared but Was Recently Rediscovered and Made Audible by a US-China Research Team after 200 Years of Silence
0.277g The Life Story of Gertraud Pachulke and Lena Tribukeit, or The First Lesbian Wedding of 1950
0.292g Freed from Eternal Ice: Screws from a 1939 Plane Crash in Peru Where the Only Survivor, Gary Dlugos, Survived Thanks to Singing a Bartók Melody
0.350g On Dream Depositories
0.425g Film Snippets of Subfilms
0.489g Jan Eliasson’s Revenge: Stones That Became Ceramic from a Burning Furnace in Gnarp, Sweden
1.159g On White Red Wine, or How Sacramental Wine Lost Its Red Color
1.207g A Performance by Jack McNeil in Honor of Joseph Beuys: A Film by Günter Eisenhardt
1.215g The Model of a 22-Meter-High Relief of the Space Dog Laika
1.217g On the History of Interpretations of Nature Based on a Cobblestone from the Natural History Museum in Vienna
1.405g The Last Tree in One of the Finest Prehistoric Forests of the Late Paleozoic Era in the Area of Present-Day Central Europe
1.489g The Biceps Trainer of the First Telephone Operators, or How the Telephone Lost Its Weight until It Was Almost Unbearable
2.305g Iron Notes
3.800g The Story of a Piece of Iron
>21.311g The Museum of Unheard (of) Things
>0.000g The Void and the Spontaneous Decay of the Vacuum, or New Proofs of God
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0.101g - 0.170g
0.171g - 0.250g
0.251g - 1.000g
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How the Husum Protest Pig in Austria
Became a Political Symbol
and Nearly Replaced
the Double-Headed Eagle
Marcel Rödiger,
the Inventor of New Time, or
How the Authorities
Did Not Like It At All
When the Day Became Twenty Hours
and the Hour Fifty Minutes
How a Photographic Image Venerated
to This Day Was Created
Thirty Years before the Invention of
Photography, or
How Two Lovers Were Unable to
Find Each Other
Roland Albrecht was born in 1950 in the town of Memmingen in the Allgäu (Southern Germany). He lives in Berlin and has worked in various medical professions. He is a photographer, artist, and writer who has published and exhibited widely with pieces that mainly focus on text and object. His work includes collages, short radio plays, short films, soundscapes and audiovisual portraits. He has been curating The Museum of Unheard (of) Things since its inception in 1997.
Alexander Booth is a writer and translator. His work has appeared in numerous international print and online journals. He lives in Germany.
You Nakai either makes music, dance, haunted houses and other works as part of No Collective (http://nocollective.com), or publishes books and other paraphernalia as part of Already Not Yet, or does research on music and other curiosities and writes papers about his findings.
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