Berlin
Subtitle: imagine a city
By: Rory MacLean
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson; Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Published: 2014
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 421
ISBN-13: 9780297868828; 9780297868835; 9780297871835
Subjects: History; Civilization; Social life and customs; Politics and government; Manners and customs; Historia; Kulturhistoria
Description: Berlin is a city of fragments and ghosts, a laboratory of ideas, the fount of both the brightest and darkest designs of history's most bloody century. The once arrogant capital of Europe was devastated by Allied bombs, divided by a wall, then reunited and reborn as one of the creative centres of the world. Rory MacLean provides a richly varied, unexpected tour of the city's history.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: -- 1.; title: Konrad von Colln, and True Love -- -- 2.; title: Colin Albany, and the Players -- -- 3.; title: Frederick the Great, and the Making of Prussia -- -- 4.; title: Karl Friedrich Schinkel, and the Dream of a Capital -- -- 5.; title: Lilli Neuss, and the Owl -- -- 6.; title: Walther Rathenau, and Lost Beauty -- -- 7.; title: Else Hirsch, and the Illusion -- -- 8.; title: Margarete Bohme, and Diary of a Lost Girl -- -- 9.; title: Fritz Haber, and the Geography of Evil -- -- 10.; title: Kathe Kollwitz, Mother and Child -- -- 11.; title: Christopher Isherwood, in a City of the Imagination -- -- 12.; title: Bertolt Brecht, Luck and the Epic -- -- 13.; title: Marlene Dietrich, on Becoming -- -- 14.; title: Leni Riefenstahl, and the Fatal Flaw -- -- 15.; title: Albert Speer, and Germania -- -- 16.; title: Joseph Goebbels, the Man Who Made Hitler -- -- 17.; title: Dieter Werner, Wall Builder -- -- 18.; title: Bill Harvey, and the Tunnel -- -- 19.; title: John F. Kennedy, and Politics as Theatre -- -- 20.; title: David Bowie, and `Heroes' -- -- 21.; title: Lieu Van Ha, and the Gun -- -- 22.; title: People, Let's Dance -- -- 23.; title: Ilse Philips, in Another Berlin.