Rory Maclean

Berlin (eBook, ePUB)

Inspiration for Public Service Broadcasting's hit new album Bright Magic

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

A city devastated by Allied bombs, divided by a Wall, then reunited and reborn, Berlin today resonates with the echo of lives lived, dreams realised and evils executed. No other city has repeatedly been so powerful and fallen so low. And few other cities have been so shaped and defined by individual imaginations.

Through vivid portraits spanning five centuries, Rory MacLean reveals the varied and rich history of Berlin, from its brightest to its darkest moments. We encounter an ambitious prostitute refashioning herself as a princess, a Scottish mercenary fighting for the Prussian Army, Marlene Dietrich flaunting her sexuality and Hitler fantasising about the mega-city Germania. The result is a uniquely imaginative biography of one of the world's most volatile yet creative cities.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Orion
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780297868835
• Artikelnr.: 40463885

Autorenporträt

Rory MacLean

Inhaltsangabe

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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