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Berlin

By Karl Scheffler

Berlin

By Karl Scheffler

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“Berlin is damned forever to become, and never to be.” Scheffler could not have anticipated that his dictum would prove prophetic. No other author has captured the city’s fascinating and unique character as perfectly. From the golden twenties to the anarchic nineties and its status of world capital of hipsterdom at the beginning of the new millennium – the formerly divided city has become the symbol of a new urbanity, blessed with the privilege of never having to be, but forever to become.Unlike London or Paris, the metropolis on the Spree lacked an organic principle of development. Berlin was nothing more than a colonial city, its sole purpose to conquer the East, its inhabitants a hodgepodge of materialistic individualists. No art or culture with which it might compete with the great cities of the world. Nothing but provincialism and culinary aberrations far and wide. Berlin: “City of preserves, tinned vegetables and all-purpose dipping sauce.”
Product details
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
188
Release Date:
2021-08-18
Publication Date:
2021-08-18
Publisher:
Suhrkamp
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
3518471589
ISBN13:
9783518471586
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
360 g
Height:
140 cm
Width:
220 cm
Thickness:
20 cm
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