| Description |
viii, 421 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Imagine -- Konrad von Cölln , and true love -- Colin Albany and the players -- Frederick the Great, and the making of Prussia -- Karl Friedrich Schinkel, and the dream of a capital -- Lilli Neuss, and the owl -- Walther Rathenau, and lost beauty -- Else Hirsch, and the illusion -- Margarete Böhme, and 'Diary of a lost girl' -- Fritz Haber, and the geography of evil -- Käthe Kollwitz, mother and child -- Christopher Isherwood, in a city of the imagination -- Bertolt Brecht, luck and the epic -- Marlene Dietrich, on becoming -- Leni Riefenstahl, and the fatal flaw -- Albert Speer, and Germania -- Joseph Goebbels, the man who made Hitler -- Dieter Werner, Wall builder -- Bill Harvey, and the tunnel -- John F. Kennedy, and politics as theatre -- David Bowie, and 'Heroes' -- Lieu Van Ha, and the gun -- People, let's dance -- Ilse Philips, in another Berlin -- Imagine Berlin. |
| Summary |
Chronicles Berlin's volatile history over 500 years through a series of intimate portraits of two dozen key residents, including the dictators who schemed to dominate Europe; iconic mythmakers like Christopher Isherwood, Leni Riefenstahl and David Bowie; and a fearful Communist Party functionary who helped to build the Berlin Wall. |
| Subject |
Berlin (Germany) -- History.
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Berlin (Germany) -- Description and travel.
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Berlin (Germany) -- Social life and customs.
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| ISBN |
9781250051868 |
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125005186X |
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