The contributions in this volume are based on a conference that was held at the University of the South in Tennessee (USA) in 2008. The papers investigate the impact Berlin's cityscape had on its artistic representation. In the first part, the impact of Berlin's city planning with its monumental Wilhelmine symbolism is explored in flaneur characters, e. g. in Georg Hermann's work. The main focus of the volume is on the second part with an investigation of the impact city planning had on Weimar Berlin's art and literature. In this section, a number of contributions show the interaction between space and art, e. g. in Walter Ruttmann, Hans Fallada and Alfred Doblin. The volume concludes with essays about the continuation of Weimar's modernism in contemporary culture.

Arbeitsbuch zu German Culture through Cinema is part of a two book series, along with German Culture through Film. This text covers fourteen films with emphasis on German language skills. The series is designed to appeal to professors who teach courses in general education, liberal arts, cinema, or who conduct a course in German film exclusively in German, or for where students share the same class (and films) for those two different courses.

Each chapter includes:

- Portions of the screen play, generally 2 or 3 scenes each running a page or two

- A division of the film into 5 or 6 parts with each part having a listing of that section's scenes and a brief summary of the scene. Each brief summary is followed by 4-6 questions

- Vocabulary exercises that require students to match words and expressions in one list with those of another. (A few chapters have grammar exercises)

- Information boxes that give background on the film as well as history and culture needed to understand the movie

- A brief summary (120 words) which recycles vocabulary and asks students to fill in 5-7 mixing vocabulary word