Research Catalog

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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Details

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.

Subject

• Hessel, Franz, 1880-1941 > Travel > Germany > Berlin
• Walking > Germany > Berlin > History > 20th century
• Historic buildings > Germany > Berlin
• Historic sites > Germany > Berlin
• Neighborhoods > Germany > Berlin > History > 20th century
• City and town life > Germany > Berlin > History > 20th century
• Social change > Germany > Berlin > History > 20th century
• Berlin (Germany) > Description and travel
• Berlin (Germany) > Social life and customs > 20th century

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