Walking in Berlin : a flaneur in the capital

Author/Creator:

Hessel, Franz, 1880-1941, author

Publication/Creation:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2017]

Format:

Book

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Additional/Related Title Information

Full Title:

Walking in Berlin : a flaneur in the capital / Franz Hessel ; with an essay by Walter Benjamin ; translated by Amanda DeMarco

Uniform Title:

Spazieren in Berlin.

Related Names

Additional Author/Creators:

Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940, contributor
DeMarco, Amanda, translator

Subjects/Genre

Subjects:

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

Description/Summary

Table of 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.

Bibliography:

Includes bibliographical references.

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"--

Language:

English

Physical Type/Description:

xix, 284 pages ; 21 cm

Additional Identifiers

Catalog ID (MMSID):

9936630183202486

ISBN:

9780262036351
0262036355

OCLC Number:

959037056

Barcode:

010003030371