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Hamburg - A Cultural and Literary History (Paperback, New ed.)
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Hamburg - A Cultural and Literary History (Paperback, New ed.)
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It is a popular misconception that Hamburg is a coastal city. In
fact, despite possessing Europe s second-busiest port, this
'amphibious city' lies some 65 miles from the North Sea. Its
long-standing image as a 'city without culture' is also something
of a myth. When the poet Heine remarked that in Hamburg 'the
customs are English', he was referring to its no-nonsense
mercantile ethos which dates back to the era of the Hanseatic
League. Yet even in Heine s day the 'celebrated philistinism' of
the city fathers was balanced by a tradition of private
philanthropy: Hamburg has long been a city of culture as well as
commerce. Although the traumas of twentieth-century German history
are never far from the surface, Hamburg has become an attractive
city full of colour and contrast. With a population of nearly two
million it is one of the largest cities in the European Union not
to enjoy the status of a national capital. Above all, as Germany s
gateway to the world , it is a cosmopolitan city, whose culture has
been shaped by those passing through as much as by those who
stayed. Matthew Jefferies explores a city-state boasting the
highest per capita GDP in Germany, but where ostentatious displays
of wealth are shunned; a place synonymous with fast food and beer,
in which fine dining and luxury shopping abound; a city without
palaces, castles or cathedrals, yet bursting with monuments and
memorials. With nearly eight million overnight visitors each year,
Hamburg is fast becoming one of Europe's most popular city-break
destinations: it is a city well worth getting to know. CITY OF
WATER AND FIRE: the Elbe, the Alster, and more bridges (around
2,500) than Venice and Amsterdam combined; a city devastated by the
'Great Fire' of 1842 and the Allied 'firestorm' of July 1943, but
twice rebuilt anew. CITY OF BRICK AND NEON: the Speicherstadt
'warehouse city'; Fritz Hoger's expressionist Chilehaus; and Fritz
Schumacher's vision of a 'liveable metropolis'; St. Pauli, the
Reeperbahn and the Beatles. THE WORLD CITY: Hamburg's colonial
past; embarkation point for millions of European migrants to the
New World; and home to the 'father of the modern zoo'.
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