Walaschek's Dream

Giovanni Orelli''s docufictional phantasmagoria revisits a lesser-known painting by Paul Klee titled Alphabet I, which features black letters and symbols scrawled over the sports page of a newspaper reporting Switzerland''s victory over Nazi Germany in the 1938 Swiss National Cup. This play of coincidences sets the stage for Orelli''s encyclopedic portrait of European culture under Nazism, where a...