Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Haxthausen, Charles Werner.
2. Suhr, Heidrun.

Description

1. xxiii, 265 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

1. Annotation

Subject

1. Berlin (Germany) > Civilization

Genre/Form

1. proceedings (reports)
2. Conference papers and proceedings
3. Conference papers and proceedings.
4. Actes de congrès.

Contents

1. Pictures of a city at work, Berlin, circa 1890-1930 : visual reflections on social structures and technology in the modern urban construct / John Czaplicka -- The beauty of the metropolis : toward an aesthetic urbanism in turn-of-the-century Berlin / Lothar Müller -- "A new beauty" : Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's images of Berlin / Charles W. Haxthausen -- Modernity, civic identity, and metropolitan entertainment : vaudeville, cabaret, and revue in Berlin, 1900-1933 / Peter Jelavich -- Lustmord : inside the windows of the metropolis / Beth Irwin Lewis -- The city as megaphone in Alfred Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz / Harald Jähner -- Deciphering the hieroglyphics of Weimar Berlin : Siegfried Kracauer / David Frisby.
2. Retrieving the city as Heimat : Berlin in Nazi cinema / Linda Schulte-Sasse -- Lyric poetry in Berlin since 1961 / Harald Hartung -- Berlin : backdrop, stage, or actor? : images of the city in recent GDR fiction / Dorothy Rosenberg -- Fremde in Berlin : the outsiders' view from the inside / Heidrun Suhr -- Panem et circenses : Berlin anniversaries as political happenings / Gerhard Weiss.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Note

1. Essays rev. and expanded from papers given at an international conference titled "Culture and metropolis: production and reception of culture and the arts in Berlin, 1900 to the present" held at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, in Oct. 1987.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references.