TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hessel,Franz
AU  - Benjamin,Walter
AU  - DeMarco,Amanda
TI  - Walking in Berlin: a flaneur in the capital
SN  - 9780262036351
AV  - DD879 
U1  - 943/.155085 23
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Cambridge, Mass.
PB  - The MIT Press
KW  - Hessel, Franz
KW  - Walking
KW  - Germany
KW  - Berlin
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Historic buildings
KW  - Historic sites
KW  - Neighborhoods
KW  - City and town life
KW  - Social change
KW  - Berlin (Germany)
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Description and travel
KW  - Berlin Collection
KW  - Reisebericht
KW  - 1929
KW  - gnd-content
N1  - "First Published in the United Kingdom by Scribe Publications, 2016."--Title page verso; Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-284)
N2  - "Franz Hessel was an observer par excellence of the increasingly hectic metropolis that was Berlin in the late 1920s. In Walking in Berlin, originally published in Germany in 1929, he captures the rhythm of Weimar-era Berlin, recording evidence of the seismic shifts shaking German culture at the time. Nearly all of the pieces take the form of a walk or outing, focusing either on a theme or part of the city, and many end at a theatre, cinema, or club. Hessel effortlessly weaves historical information into his observations, displaying his extensive knowledge of the city. Today, many years after the Nazi era and the postwar reconstruction that followed, the areas he visited are all still prominent and interesting. From the Alexanderplatz to Kreuzberg, his record of them has become priceless. Superbly written, and as fresh today as when it first appeared, this is a book to be savoured"--; Translator's Foreword -- The Flaneur's Return / by Walter Benjamin -- The Suspect -- I Learn a Thing or Two -- A Bit of Work -- Fashion -- Lust for Life -- A Tour -- The Animal Palaces -- Berlin's Boulevard -- The Old West -- Tiergarten -- The Landwehr Canal -- Kreuzberg -- Tempelhof -- Hasenheide -- Through Neukölln Toward Britz -- Steamship Music -- To the East -- The North -- The Northwest -- Friedrichstadt -- Dönhoffplatz -- The Newspaper District -- The Southwest -- Afterword
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