Editor's preface / Peter Nisbet -- "...in honor of Arend Oetker" / Timotheus R. Pohl -- Earthly and heavenly palaces: memories of the brickworks in Höpfingen / Klaus Gallwitz -- Reading Anselm Kiefer's book. Die Himmelspaläste: Merkaba / Lisa Saltzman -- Surface tension: Anselm Kiefer and the photograph / Laura Muir -- Anselm Kiefer's The heavenly palaces: Merkabah -- Exhibition and publication history