This cross-media documentary (film, installation and website) explores the life and writings of Daniel Paul Schreber. Now famous as an Outsider Artist, Schreber was a successful lawyer, who in 1893, started to receive messages from God via a ‘Writing Down Machine’ that spanned the cosmos. He spent the next nine years confined to an asylum. This is his story.

Daniel Paul Schreber

Sabine Schreber

Dr. Flechsig

Dr. Tauscher
April 26, 2012



Daniel Paul Schreber

Sabine Schreber

Dr. Flechsig

Dr. Tauscher