Berlin Tales

Produktbeschreibung

Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, this attractive collection of translated stories evokes the many transformations the city has undergone. Including both well-known and new writers, the book will appeal to people who love travelling or are armchair travellers, as much as to those who love Berlin. 

Inhaltsverzeichnis

* Introduction


* 1: Siegfried Kracauer: 'Aus dem Fenster gesehen' (Seen From the Window)


* 2: Alfred Döblin: 'Östlich um den Alexanderplatz' (East of Alexanderplatz)


* 3: Franz Hessel: excerpt from 'Spazieren in Berlin' (A Flaneur in Berlin)


* 4: Max Frisch: 'Berlin, November 1947'


* 5: Uwe Johnson: 'Berliner Stadtbahn' (Berlin S-Bahn)


* 6: Günter Kunert: 'Alltägliche Geschichte einer Berliner Straße' (Everyday
Story of a Berlin Street)


* 7: Günter de Bruyn: 'Berlin, Große Hamburger' (Große Hamburger Street)


* 8: Monika Maron: 'Geburtsort Berlin' (Place of Birth: Berlin)


* 9: Emine Sevgi Özdamar: 'Mein Berlin' (My Berlin)


* 10: Durs Grünbein: 'Sommerzeit' (Summertime)


* 11: Inka Bach: 'Besetzer' (Squatters)


* 12: Annett Gröschner: 'Rest Esplanade' (The Remains of the Hotel Esplanade)


* 13: Fridolin Schley: 'Das Herz der Republik' (The Heart of the Republic)


* 14: Carmen Francesca Banciu: 'Berlin ist mein Paris' (Berlin is my Paris)


* 15: Katrin Röggla: 'fraktionen' (factions)


* 16: Wladimir Kaminer: 'Stadtführer Berlin' (Berlin Guide)


* 17: Ulrike Draesner: 'Gina Regina' 

Kritik

These seventeen stories traverse the effervescent city of Berlin, both past and present, in such a beguiling way - that one's compelled to not only read more, but investigate the city for real. David Marx, David Marx: Book Reviews 

Autoreninfo

Lyn Marven is a Lecturer in German at the University of Liverpool; she researches and translates contemporary literature, with a particular interest in Berlin. She obtained her DPhil from Oxford University, and taught there and at Manchester University, as well as living for a time in Berlin. Helen Constantine is editor of the magazine Modern Poetry in Translation and the editor and translator of Paris Tales and French Tales.