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Walking in Berlin : a flaneur in the capital

Title
Walking in Berlin : a flaneur in the capital / Franz Hessel ; introduction by Walter Benjamin ; translated by Amanda DeMarco.
Author
Hessel, Franz, 1880-1941
Publication
Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, 2017.

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Additional Authors
  • Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940
  • DeMarco, Amanda
Description
pages cm
Summary
"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"--
Uniform Title
Spazieren in Berlin. English
Alternative Title
Spazieren in Berlin.
Subjects
Contents
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.
Call Number
JFD 17-3938
ISBN
  • 9780262036351
  • 0262036355
LCCN
2016046401
OCLC
2016046401
Author
Hessel, Franz, 1880-1941, author.
Title
Walking in Berlin : a flaneur in the capital / Franz Hessel ; introduction by Walter Benjamin ; translated by Amanda DeMarco.
Publisher
Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, 2017.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Added Author
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940, writer of introduction.
DeMarco, Amanda, translator.
Research Call Number
JFD 17-3938
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