Topography and literature : Berlin and modernism / Reinhard Zachau (ed.) ; in association with Rolf Goebel und Sabine Hake.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Zachau, Reinhard K. (Reinhard Konrad)

Goebel, Rolf J., 1952-

Hake, Sabine, 1956-

Class of 1932 Fund.

Series:

Deutschsprachige Gegenwartsliteratur und Medien ; Bd. 4.

Deutschsprachige Gegenwartsliteratur und Medien ; Bd. 4

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Geography in literature.

Architecture.

History.

Modernism (Aesthetics).

Berlin (Germany)--In literature--Congresses.

Berlin (Germany).

German literature--20th century--History and criticism--Congresses.

German literature.

Modernism (Aesthetics)--Germany--Berlin--Congresses.

Architecture--Germany--Berlin--History--20th century--Congresses.

Geography in literature--Congresses.

Germany--Berlin.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

187 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Göttingen : V&R unipress, [2009]

Language Note:

Eleven essays in English, one in German.

Summary:

The contributions of the conference of the same name at the University of the South in Tennessee, USA, examine the relationship between the impact of Berlin's urban space on artistic representations. In a first part, the Wilhelmine symbols of the city and the modern city planning that is being used are brought into relation to Berlin flaneurs such as Georg Hermann and Robert Walser. The focus of the volume is in the second part, which focuses on the effects of urban planning on art and literature in Berlin during the Weimar period. In this part, a number of individual representations show aspects of the interaction of space and artifact u. a. with Otto Dix, Walter Ruttmann, Hans Fallada and Alfred Döblin. Concluding there are contributions about the continuing work of Weimar's modernity in the present time.

Contents:

Berlin's "cathedrals of commercialism" : cultural confrontations with the Warenhaus phenomenon / Matthew Lange

Berlin in posters, posters in Berlin : mass advertisement and urban space in Berlin 1900-1933 / Marcel Rotter

Green Germania? : green space and urban planning in Berlin, 1900-1945 / Barry A. Jackisch

Bitte einsteigen! Josephine Baker's 1928 return to Berlin / Alan Lareau

Engaging consumption: subjection and subjectivity on the streets of imperial Berlin / David S. Johnson

The mental life of a metropolitan dweller: George Hermann's novel Die Nacht des Doktor Herzfeld (1912) / Godela Weiss-Sussex

Media competition: Ruttmann's Berlin: die Symphonie der Grosstadt and Hessel's Ein Flaneur in Berlin / Rolf J. Goebel

Topographies of transport: the openings of Alfred Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz / Patrick Fortmann

Erzähler and Information: Alfred Döblin's epic realism / Todd Heidt

Berlin is a cabaret of the nameless : the cynical city in Erich Kastner's Fabian / Jan Uelzmann

The representation of Berlin in Hans Fallada's Ein Mann will nach oben / Geoff Wilkes

Réne Trintzius' Deutschland: das Berlin der zwanziger Jahre aus einer französischen Perspektive / Bernhard Heinrich.

Notes:

Proceedings of a conference held Sept. 2008 at the University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.

ISBN:

9783899714685

3899714687

OCLC:

429020280