num_pages: 260
description: A timeless guide to one of the worlds greatest cities. 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
title: Walking in Berlin: a flaneur in the capital
publisher: Scribe UK