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

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"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 th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hessel, Franz, 1880-1941 (Author)
Other Authors: Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 (Contributor), DeMarco, Amanda (Translator)
Other title:Spazieren in Berlin. English
Format: Book
Language:English
German
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Hessel, Franz, > 1880-1941 > Travel > Germany > Berlin.
Hessel, Franz, > 1880-1941.
Berlin (Germany) > Description and travel.
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.
Berlin (Germany) > Social life and customs > 20th century.
Social change > Germany > Berlin > History > 20th century.
City and town life.
Historic buildings.
Historic sites.
Manners and customs.
Neighborhoods.
Social change.
Travel.
Walking.
Germany > Berlin.
History.
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.

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