The first single-volume biography of Berlin, one of the world's great cities - told via twenty-one portraits, from medieval times to the twenty-first century.
The first single-volume biography of Berlin, one of the world's great cities - told via twenty-one portraits, from medieval times to the twenty-first century.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Rory MacLean has known three Berlins: West Berlin, where he made movies with David Bowie and Marlene Dietrich, East Berlin, where he researched his first book, STALIN'S NOSE, and now the unified capital. He has twice been shortlisted for the THOMAS COOK TRAVEL BOOK PRIZE and he has been nominated for the INTERNATIONAL IMPAC DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and recipient of a Winston Churchill Travelling Fellowship. He has also written and presented many radio programmes for the BBC. Born in Vancouver and resident for many years in the UK, he divides his time between Berlin, London and Dorset. www.rorymaclean.com
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Prologue: Imagine 1 1 Konrad von Cölln, and True Love 9 2 Colin Albany, and the Players 25 3 Frederick the Great, and the Making of Prussia 39 4 Karl Friedrich Schinkel, and the Dream of a Capital 53 5 Lilli Neuss, and the Owl 69 6 Walther Rathenau, and Lost Beauty 83 7 Else Hirsch, and the Illusion 99 8 Margarete Böhme, and Diary of a Lost Girl 115 9 Fritz Haber, and the Geography of Evil 133 10 Käthe Kollwitz, Mother and Child 151 11 Christopher Isherwood, in a City of the Imagination 169 12 Bertolt Brecht, Luck and the Epic 187 13 Marlene Dietrich, on Becoming 197 14 Leni Riefenstahl, and the Fatal Flaw 217 15 Albert Speer, and Germania 237 16 Joseph Goebbels, the Man Who Made Hitler 251 17 Dieter Werner, Wall Builder 275 18 Bill Harvey, and the Tunnel 295 19 John F. Kennedy, and Politics as Theatre 317 20 David Bowie, and 'Heroes' 329 21 Lieu Van Ha, and the Gun 349 22 People, Let's Dance 363 23 Ilse Philips, in Another Berlin 379 Epilogue: Imagine Berlin 389 Afterword and Bibliography 395 Acknowledgements 403 Index
Prologue: Imagine 1 1 Konrad von Cölln, and True Love 9 2 Colin Albany, and the Players 25 3 Frederick the Great, and the Making of Prussia 39 4 Karl Friedrich Schinkel, and the Dream of a Capital 53 5 Lilli Neuss, and the Owl 69 6 Walther Rathenau, and Lost Beauty 83 7 Else Hirsch, and the Illusion 99 8 Margarete Böhme, and Diary of a Lost Girl 115 9 Fritz Haber, and the Geography of Evil 133 10 Käthe Kollwitz, Mother and Child 151 11 Christopher Isherwood, in a City of the Imagination 169 12 Bertolt Brecht, Luck and the Epic 187 13 Marlene Dietrich, on Becoming 197 14 Leni Riefenstahl, and the Fatal Flaw 217 15 Albert Speer, and Germania 237 16 Joseph Goebbels, the Man Who Made Hitler 251 17 Dieter Werner, Wall Builder 275 18 Bill Harvey, and the Tunnel 295 19 John F. Kennedy, and Politics as Theatre 317 20 David Bowie, and 'Heroes' 329 21 Lieu Van Ha, and the Gun 349 22 People, Let's Dance 363 23 Ilse Philips, in Another Berlin 379 Epilogue: Imagine Berlin 389 Afterword and Bibliography 395 Acknowledgements 403 Index
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