Walking in Berlin

Resource Information

The work Walking in Berlin represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Randwick City Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Walking in Berlin

Statement of responsibility

Franz Hessel

Creator

• Hessel, Franz, 1880-1941

Author

• Hessel, Franz, 1880-1941

Subject

• Berlin (Germany) -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
• City and town life -- Germany | Berlin -- History -- 20th century
• Hessel, Franz, 1880-1941 -- Travel -- Germany | Berlin
• Historic buildings -- Germany | Berlin
• Neighborhoods -- Germany | Berlin -- History -- 20th century
• Social change -- Germany | Berlin -- History -- 20th century
• Walking -- Germany | Berlin -- History -- 20th century
• Historic sites -- Germany | Berlin
• Berlin (Germany) -- Description and travel

Language

• eng
• ger
• eng

Summary

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 the time. Nearly all of the pieces take the form of a walk or outing, focusing either on a theme or part of the city, and many end at a theatre, cinema, or club. Hessel effortlessly weaves historical information into his observations, displaying his extensive knowledge of the city. Today, many years after the Nazi era and the postwar reconstruction that followed, the areas he visited are all still prominent and interesting. From the Alexanderplatz to Kreuzberg, his record of them has become priceless. Superbly written, and as fresh today as when it first appeared, this is a book to be savoured

Member of

• Spazieren in Berlin

Cataloging source

AU@

Dewey number

943.155

Index

no index present

Language note

Text in English

Literary form

non fiction

Target audience

adult