No other city has had so many lives, survived so many disasters and
has reinvented itself so many times. No other city is like Berlin.
Ever since John Kampfner was a young journalist in Communist East
Berlin, he hasn't been able to get the city out of his mind. It is
a place tortured by its past, obsessed with memories, a place where
traumas are unleashed and the traumatised have gathered. Over the
past four years Kampfner has walked the length and breadth of
Berlin, delving into the archives, and talking to historians and
writers, architects and archaeologists. He clambers onto a fallen
statue of Lenin; he rummages in boxes of early Medieval bones; he
learns about the cabaret star so outrageous she was thrown out of
the city. Berlin has been a military barracks, industrial
powerhouse, centre of learning, hotbed of decadence - and the
laboratory for the worst experiment in horror known to man. Now a
city of refuge, it is home to 180 nationalities, and more than a
quarter of the population has a migrant background. Berlin never
stands still. It is never satisfied. It never believes it has the
answer. But it is now the irresistible capital to which the world
is gravitating. In Search of Berlin is an 800-year story, a
dialogue between past and present; it is a new way of looking at
this turbulent and beguiling city on its never-ending journey of
reinvention.
General
Imprint: |
Atlantic Books
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
September 2023 |
Authors: |
John Kampfner
(Editor)
|
Dimensions: |
234 x 156mm (L x W) |
Pages: |
416 |
Edition: |
Export/Airside |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-83895-482-6 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
1-83895-482-1 |
Barcode: |
9781838954826 |
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