The Paris Bar on Kantstrasse in Berlin's Charlottenburg is one of Germany's most famous meeting places for artists. Bustling every night of the week with fascinating guests from every walk of life, the restaurant is particularly beloved by painters, actors, writers, collectors and gallerists, its walls covered by a mélange of artworks by John Baldessari, Maria Lassnig, Georg Baselitz, Sarah Lucas and Martin Kippenberger―to name just a few.

Now artist and owner of the Paris Bar Michel Würthle has created the first behind-the-scenes look into this legendary institution, in the form of an intimate, sprawling visual journal―six volumes of hundreds of his drawings, photographs, collages, menus and hand-written texts in English, German and French.

Created in the solitude of the 2020/21 lockdown, Paris Bar Press. Confidential is at once a subjective history of the Paris Bar brimming with memories, a love letter to Berlin, and not least Würthle's affirmation to his staff that “we're all in this together, we will get through this, the world isn't going to end so quickly after all.”

位于柏林夏洛腾堡康特街的巴黎酒吧是德国最著名的艺术家聚会场所之一。这家餐厅每个晚上都有来自各行各业的客人光临，尤其受到画家、演员、作家、收藏家和画廊家的喜爱，其墙壁上挂满了约翰·巴尔代萨里（John Baldessari）、玛丽亚·拉斯尼格（Maria Lassnig）、乔治·巴塞利兹（Georg Baselitz）、莎拉·卢卡斯（Sarah Lucas）和马丁·基彭贝格（Martin Kippenberger）等人的艺术作品。

现在，艺术家和巴黎酒吧的老板米歇尔·维尔托尔（Michel Würthle）以第一手资料，创造了这个传奇机构的第一本幕后故事，其中包括六卷他的数百幅绘画、照片、拼贴画、菜单和用英语、德语和法语手写的文字。

本书创作于2020/21年禁闭期间，既是巴黎酒吧的一部充满回忆的主观历史，也是一封写给柏林的情书，同时也是维尔托尔对他的员工的肯定：“我们都在一起，我们会度过这个难关的，毕竟世界不会这么快就毁灭的。”