In our last episode (“Moonlighting I”) we looked at painters who photograph; this time we will focus on writers: how they approach photography, what we can learn from theater about staging a photograph, and what the commonalities and differences between writing and photography are. We’ll focus on the German writer Einar Schleef — a towering figure in the German-speaking literature and theatre scenes of the ‘90s — whose most famous book, Gertrud, is about his mother and his upbringing in East Germany. He photographed and painted all his life as well as writing and we’ll examine a book with contact sheets that accompanied a large retrospective on his life and work. In addition, we’ll visit the work of photographer Michael Schmidt, particularly his most well-known book, Waffenruhe, which features writing by Schleef.