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Berliner Spaziergänge Architektur, Literatur und Film 2009 • 978-1-58510-284-6 • paper • 224 pages • 7 x 10 • $40.95 | About the Authors | Table of Contents | Preface | Review |
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Description Berliner Spaziergänge: Architektur, Literatur und Film offers a virtual walk through German history since Berlin in its many historical and architectural districts offers a condensed version of German history. The six walking tours in the book contain excerpts from various texts inform students about the neighborhood and time period they represent. Each historical section begins with a description and explanations related to principal Berlin buildings in that neighborhood. The sections also provide summaries, excerpts, interpretations, and exercises about literary texts that explore the neighborhood. There are also some maps which outline the different Berlin neighborhoods mentioned in the book.
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Reinhard Zachau (Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh) Professor of German at the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee. His publications include books on Stefan Heym (1982, 2002, with Peter Hutchinson), Hans Fallada (1990, 1998, 2000), Heinrich Böll (1994), and Wolfgang Koeppen's adaptation of Jakob Littner's holocaust memoir (English version 2000, with Kurt Grübler; German version 2002, with Roland Ulrich). Zachau's latest book is an introduction to German film, German Culture Through Cinema (2005, with Robert Reimer). Zachau is also the author of numerous articles on nineteenth and twentieth century German and Austrian literature. Margit M. Sinka (Ph.D., University of North Carolina) is Professor of German and Head of the German Section at Clemson University. She holds an M.A. from Middlebury College and a Ph.D. in German from the University of North Carolina. She has presented and published on medieval German epics, medieval mysticism, 19th century literature, genre studies (the German Novelle and Kurzgeschichte), pedagogy, 20th century prose, the Holocaust Memorial, contemporary Berlin discourses, and on post-1945 German film. She is currently focusing her research on Berlin studies, including the representation of Berlin in postwar cinema. Her teaching includes 19th and 20th century prose and drama, German film, visual culture, and post-1945 German culture. From 2001 to 2004 she was the post-secondary Southeast Representative on the Executive Council of the American Association of German Teachers. Rolf J. Goebel (Ph.D, University of Maryland) teaches at the University of Alabama, Huntsville. He has published on German modernism and contemporary literature, especially Franz Kafka, Walter Benjamin, and Durs Grünbein; the representation of metropolitan space, especially post-reunification Berlin; and cultural theory (cultural hermeneutics, postcolonialism, media competition). In addition to numerous articles and conference papers, he has published three books: Kritik und Revision: Kafkas Rezeption mythologischer, biblischer und historischer Traditionen (1986), Constructing China: Kafka's Orientalist Discourse (1997), and Benjamin heute: Großstadtdiskurs, Postkolonialität und Flanerie zwischen den Kulturen (2001).
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Table
of Contents
Preface Karte von Berlin Einleitung: Der Berliner Flaneur
Kapitel 1: Berlin im neunzehnten
Jahrhundert Kapitel 2: Berlin in der Weimarer
Republik Kapitel 3: Berlin im Dritten
Reich Zwischenkapitel: Nachkriegsberlin
1945-49 Kapitel 4: West-Berlin Kapitel 5: Ostberlin Kapitel 6: Hauptstadt Berlin |
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Berliner Spaziergänge grew out of the frustration of the authors that there are plenty of books on Berlin history, mostly in English, but no books for Berlin literature that can be used on the undergraduate level. With its selection of literature excerpts, Berliner Spaziergänge wants to present a realistic image of the life average Berliners led under the city’s many oppressing political systems during the last two centuries, starting with life in imperial Germany, then moving to Weimar Berlin and Berlin’s most difficult times during the Nazi period, then on to the postwar years.Each chapter begins with information on Berlin’s topographical layout in combination with a literary text. By concentrating on excerpts from literary texts of a particular historical period, students not only explore the layout of the city but can also relate abstract historical information to a physical experience within the city’s geography. Berliner Spaziergänge begins its exploration of nineteenth century life in the Mitte district, moves to Weimar culture in the Western suburbs of Charlottenburg and Tiergarten, and then on to the Nazi period. While some monuments of Nazi Berlin still exist, most buildings after 1945 still stand which make the exploration of post-war Berlin much easier. Each chapter consists of a general introduction into the culture of the district and its history, followed by an outline of the location of the literature excerpts. The text selections are divided into a general introduction with in-depth information on the book from which the text excerpt is taken. Each excerpt is glossed and footnoted with cultural information. The study questions can be used either for class discussion or for essay writing and the bibliography lists the source for the text and gives ideas for further reading.
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