Reading Berlin 1900 / Peter Fritzsche.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fritzsche, Peter, 1959-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

German newspapers--Germany--Berlin--History.

German newspapers.

Berlin (Germany)--Press coverage.

Berlin (Germany).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 308 p. ) ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Reading Berlin neunzehnhundert

Reading Berlin nineteen-hundred

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this study of the newspaper page, Fritzsche analyzes how reading & writing dramatized Imperial Berlin & anticipated the modernist sensibility that celebrated discontinuity, instability, & transience.

The great cities at the turn of the century were mediated by words--newspapers, advertisements, signs, and schedules--by which the inhabitants lived, dreamed, and imagined their surroundings. In this original study of the classic text of urban modernism--the newspaper page--Peter Fritzsche analyzes how reading and writing dramatized Imperial Berlin and anticipated the modernist sensibility that celebrated discontinuity, instability, and transience. It is a sharp-edged story with cameo appearances by Georg Simmel, Walter Benjamin, and Alfred Doblin. This sumptuous history of a metropolis and its social and literary texts provides a rich evocation of a particularly exuberant and fleeting moment in history.

Contents:

Introduction The Word City Readers and Metropolitans Physiognomy of the City The City as Spectacle Illegible Texts Plot Lines Other Texts of Exploration Notes Index

Notes:

Originally published: 1996.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-301) and index.

ISBN:

9780674037366

0674037367

OCLC:

923109909