Paul Klee’s extraordinary pictorial worlds are the result of a complex artistic development. He received crucial impulses during is travels. These were experiences with a long-lasting impact that Klee documents in diaries, postcards and numerous letters.Five such journeys will provide insights into Klee’s artistic development: from being a student full of doubts to one of the most important modern artists. The podcast "Mapping Klee" follows Klee's tracks through "Italy 1901", takes the artist to the French metropolis in the episode "Paris 1912", tells of the now legendary journey of the three artist colleagues Paul Klee, August Macke and Louis Moilliet shortly before the outbreak of the First World War in "Tunisia 1914", while the already successful artist and Bauhaus master seeks relaxation on holiday trips in "Southern France 1927" and then, in "Egypt 1928", fulfils a long-held wish with his second trip to North Africa.

Narrator: Edwin ThomasScript: Herbert Schwarze, Bastien DelarocqueResearch: Anita Mischler, Fabienne Eggelhöfer, Maria Horst, Martina WitschiProject Management: Fabienne Eggelhöfer, Maria HorstProduction: Bastien Delarocque, Jörg SchulzeRecording: Richard Evans (Syncbox)Sound-design and mixing: Lukas Wustmann, Martin GrubeMusic: Boys NoizeTranslation: Tim Beeby, Sabine Bürger

This podcast was produced by maze pictures swiss GmbH and made possible by Engagement Migros as part of the pioneering digitorials.ch project.Special thanks to Nadine Bleses, Dr. Carsten Siebert, Philipp Bitter, Heidi Ewald, Georgie Davies, Ulrich Thomsen, Britta Friedrich and Frank Evers.