In Topographies of Class, Sabine Hake explores why Weimar Berlin
has had such a powerful hold on the urban imagination. Approaching
Weimar architectural culture from the perspective of mass discourse
and class analysis, Hake examines the way in which architectural
projects; debates; and representations in literature, photography,
and film played a key role in establishing the terms under which
contemporaries made sense of the rise of white-collar society.
Focusing on the so-called stabilization period, Topographies of
Class maps out complex relationships between modern architecture
and mass society, from Martin Wagner's planning initiatives and
Erich Mendelsohn's functionalist buildings, to the most famous
Berlin texts of the period, Alfred Doblin's city novel "Berlin
Alexanderplatz" (1929) and Walter Ruttmann's city film "Berlin,
Symphony of the Big City" (1927). Hake draws on critical,
philosophical, literary, photographic, and filmic texts to
reconstruct the urban imagination at a key point in the history of
German modernity, making this the first study---in English or
German---to take an interdisciplinary approach to the rich
architectural culture of Weimar Berlin.
Sabine Hake is Professor and Texas Chair of German Literature
and Culture at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author
of numerous books, including "German National Cinema" and "Popular
Cinema of the Third Reich,"
Cover art: Construction of the Karstadt Department Store at
Hermannplatz, Berlin-Neukolln. Courtesy Bildarchiv Preeussischer
Kulturbesitz / Art Resource, NY
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