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Berlin (Paperback)
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Berlin (Paperback)
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Berlin is much more than the former capital of Nazi Germany--it is
often described today as innovative, fast-paced, avant-garde,
rough, exciting, and even sexy. At the political and geographical
centre of the Second World War and the Cold War, the city had
already been at the cultural heart of Europe for hundreds of
years--and continues to set architectural, musical, literary and
fashion trends in the twenty-first century. Berlin has been shaped
by politicians such as Frederick the Great, dictators like Adolf
Hitler and architects such as Karl Friedrich Schinkel and Hans
Scharoun, and it boasts icons including the Brandenburg Gate and
the Reichstag. Yet no one individual put a decisive stamp on the
city, which had to reinvent itself again and again because of its
turbulent history. The staid baroque capital of Prussia was
succeeded by the up-and-coming capital of newly united Germany;
village homes replaced by tenement housing in the nineteenth
century; the hierarchical orderliness of the early twentieth
century followed by the unconventional statements of modernism.
After the destruction of the Second World War, the Berlin Wall cut
the city in half and created the brooding image of the Cold War
frontier, and since the dramatic collapse of the Wall the latest
version of a unified Berlin has arisen as new Germany's capital.
Even today, the various communities that now make up the city have
their own distinctive identities. Norbert Schurer's cultural guide
explores the juxtaposition of Berlin's past and present in history,
architecture, literature, art, entertainment and religion and
offers an insider account that provides contexts to make sense of
Berlin's dazzling variety.
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