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Berlin - A Cultural Guide (Paperback)
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EXPLORING THE CULTURAL HEART OF EUROPE INSIDE OUT. 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 center 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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