Support
"Writer's Block" was made possible by generous support and assistance from hundreds of individuals, businesses and foundations around the world. Among them:

    avcommunication, Hector Barrientos, Dottie Bennett,Cafe DenkBar, Checkpoint Charlie Stiftung, ConCord Remarketing, DaimlerChrysler, Checkpoint Charlie KG, Jose Giribas, East-Side-Hotel, Hochtief, Lex Transport, Fritz Niemann, the Oring family, Kulturamt Mitte, Picture Point, the Puffin Foundation, the U.S. Embassy-Berlin, the von Reiche family, P.E.N., the American Booksellers Foundation for Free Expression, the National Coalition Against Censorship, the Cultural Exchange Foundation, the Office of the President of Hungary, Budapest Mayor’s Office, American Embassy Berlin, German Embassy Budapest, German Embassy Washington, the Ludwig Museum (Budapest), Robert Bosch Foundation, Goethe Institute, Nobel Prize winner Imre Kertész and writers Peter Gay, György Konrád and Stephan Krawczyk.


Special thanks the hundreds of Berliners who donated typewriters and to the dozens of volunteers whose hard work made this installation possible. Among them: Muharrem Batman, Hans Boes, Audrey Bockel, Katja Borch, Steffen Doering, Jeff Drugge, Ginga Eichler, Sonja Ernst, Tom and Leslie Freudenheim, Andreas Fritzsche, Dagmar Hovestaedt, Steve Kettmann and Bettina Papenburg. Writer's Block owes its success to the help of these people and many others.


Additional contributions toward an international tour of "Writer's Block" would be greatly appreciated.

In the U.S., tax-deductible contributions may be made to:

In Germany, tax-deductible contributions may be made to: