Berlin : imagine a city / Rory MacLean.

Author
MacLean, Rory, 1954- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
London : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2014.
Description
viii, 421 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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    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.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Machine generated contents note: 1. Konrad von Colln, and True Love
    • 2. Colin Albany, and the Players
    • 3. Frederick the Great, and the Making of Prussia
    • 4. Karl Friedrich Schinkel, and the Dream of a Capital
    • 5. Lilli Neuss, and the Owl
    • 6. Walther Rathenau, and Lost Beauty
    • 7. Else Hirsch, and the Illusion
    • 8. Margarete Bohme, and Diary of a Lost Girl
    • 9. Fritz Haber, and the Geography of Evil
    • 10. Kathe Kollwitz, Mother and Child
    • 11. Christopher Isherwood, in a City of the Imagination
    • 12. Bertolt Brecht, Luck and the Epic
    • 13. Marlene Dietrich, on Becoming
    • 14. Leni Riefenstahl, and the Fatal Flaw
    • 15. Albert Speer, and Germania
    • 16. Joseph Goebbels, the Man Who Made Hitler
    • 17. Dieter Werner, Wall Builder
    • 18. Bill Harvey, and the Tunnel
    • 19. John F. Kennedy, and Politics as Theatre
    • 20. David Bowie, and `Heroes'
    • 21. Lieu Van Ha, and the Gun
    • 22. People, Let's Dance
    • 23. Ilse Philips, in Another Berlin.
    ISBN
    • 9780297868828 ((hbk.))
    • 0297868829 ((hbk.))
    • 9780297871835
    • 0297871838
    OCLC
    871047746
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